Getting a lecture on restraint from the woman who threw a hissy fit and blew up Babylon. — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
We teach reading, writing and math by [having students do] them. But we teach democracy by lecture. — Shelley Berman Copy Share Image
Whenever I have given lectures to a large audience before, I have always looked for an ending that gives a 'wow' feeling. — May-Britt Moser Copy Share Image
Look, if I'd wanted a lecture on the rights of man, I'd have gone to bed with Martin Luther. — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
People don't listen when you lecture. No one wants to be talked down to or scolded. — Scott Thompson Copy Share Image
Education is the sum of what students teach each other between lectures and seminars. — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
A slap in the face is more effective than ten lectures. It makes you understand very quickly. — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
A real education takes place, not in the lecture hall or library, but in the rooms of friends, with earnest frolic and… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
If all the students who slept through lectures were laid end to end, they'd all be a lot more comfortable. If all… — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
Plato had defined Man as an animal, biped and featherless, and was applauded. Diogenes plucked a fowl and brought it into the… — Diogenes Copy Share Image
The poem might come to you as you're preparing to teach a lecture, right? And when you say, "no" to that occasion,… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
Then there are the people who know me from the lectures. What I am really trying to do, what I need to… — Suzanne Somers Copy Share Image
I try very hard to tell stories and not lecture. I try to approach things as an amateur and not an expert,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
All the sutras in the world are useless. All the lectures of all the teachers don't really mean anything. They are only… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Henceforward, I shout to the heavens, I shall deliver no more lectures on behalf of good causes: I am the good cause… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
I love man-kind, but I hate the institutions of the dead unkind. Men execute nothing so faithfully as the wills of the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Covert Operations Report At approximately 0900 hours on Saturday, October 14, Operative Morgan was given a stern lecture by Agent Townsend, a… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
“University lectures are an obsolete practice inherited from the Middle Ages when books were scarce. Students should read, not listen. To swallow… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I think we owe it to children to let them dig their knowledge, of whatever subject, for themselves out of the "fit"… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
The panic disappeared under those soothing old fingers and the breathing slowed down and stopped hurting the chest as if a fox… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Science ... must be absorbed in order to inculcate that wonderful humility before the facts of nature that comes from close attention… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
I am always looking for inspiration. I always live in big cities where I can go every day to a museum, see… — Blanca Li Copy Share Image
I feel that people who haven't read my books and haven't heard me lecture - who don't in fact know what my… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“We are now ready to tackle Dickens. We are now ready to embrace Dickens. We are now ready to bask in Dickens.… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
The attitude of the true scientist towards the real limits of human understanding was unforgettably impressed on me in early youth by… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
The late British-born philosopher Alan Watts, in one of his wonderful lectures on eastern philosophy, used this analogy: "If I draw a… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
Take it for granted, when I am invited to lecture anywhere,for I have had a little experience in that business,that there is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Great lecturers seldom hesitate to use dramatic tricks to enshrine their precepts in the minds of their audiences, and at Yale perhaps… — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
We can no longer communicate with the apes by direct language, nor can we understand, without special study, their modes of communication… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
You see? Characters in books do not read books. Oh, they snap them shut when somebody enters a room, or fling them… — Michael Swanwick Copy Share Image
There is no good talking to him," said a Dragon-fly, who was sitting on the top of a large brown bulrush; "no… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
What I learned about the mob wasn't through lectures at the academy. — Joseph D. Pistone Copy Share Image
The Americans lecture the world on democracy and then won’t let me turn the traction control off! — Jeremy Clarkson Copy Share Image
I would just as soon listen to a gangster lecture on honesty as watch Hollywood portray the Bible. — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
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