Western society has many flaws, and it is good for an educated person to have thought some of these through, even at… — Robert B. Laughlin Copy Share Image
When I got to Princeton I made a point of attending the Philosophy Club and listening to the lectures, but I didn't… — Stephen Cole Kleene Copy Share Image
During my second year at Edinburgh [1826-27] I attended Jameson's lectures on Geology and Zoology, but they were incredible dull. The sole… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
At a lecture I am asked to pronounce my name three times. I try to be slow and emphatic, "Anaïs Anaïs Anaïs.… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I get up and retire when I wish. I go out if I wish and I do not go out if I… — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
You see, Suzanne, history lectures bore me, art films bore me, your friends bore me, and, if you want to know the… — Francine Pascal Copy Share Image
A poet or novelist will invent interruptions to avoid long consecutive days at the ordained page; and of these the most pernicious… — Shirley Hazzard Copy Share Image
I see no reason why there still are large lectures in universities throughout the world. When people gather, they should be interactive,… — Sal Khan Copy Share Image
In the Marquette Lecture volume, I focus on the question in the title. I emphasize the social and political costs of being… — Larry Hurtado Copy Share Image
If I waited to be in the mood to write, I'd barely have a chapbook of material to my name. Who would… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
Backlock, a poet blind from his birth, could describe visual objects with accuracy; Professor Sanderson, who was also blind, gave excellent lectures… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
A young man is not a proper hearer of lectures on political science; for he is inexperienced in the actions that occur… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
To the distracting occupations belong especially my lecture courses which I am holding this winter for the first time, and which now… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
And of course, we know that opportunity lies outside the reach of some of our people. We don't need flowery words about… — Artur Davis Copy Share Image
Facebook was founded on February 4, 2004. On February 5, we were feeling pretty confident, even from observing the first few hours… — Dustin Moskovitz Copy Share Image
I recall a lecture by John Glenn, the first American to go into orbit. When asked what went through his mind while… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
I was giving a lecture and I said, that's enough about The Photographic Life, meaning my biography, now let's talk about the… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
It is just called Continuing Legal Education. You can go to lectures, you can even listen to tapes on airplanes - they… — Frank Shorter Copy Share Image
It's such a measure of your solidarity with Ed, that when you would give lectures, he would be wearing a tartan tie… — Vera Farmiga Copy Share Image
Recently I gave a lecture and a gentleman came to me and asked how I'd like to be remembered, i'd never been… — Billy Casper Copy Share Image
Focus on the mind and the soul. Read. Study. Enrol in a course of lectures. Pray. Become a member of a religious… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
I'll go to a city, a school, and give a lecture because I can feel someone there. I inwardly see first their… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A lecture has been well described as the process whereby the notes of the teacher become the notes of the student without… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In Philadelphia, I inadvertently came upon an edition of Robert Ingersoll's Essays and Lectures. This was an exciting discovery; his atheism confirmed… — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
Processions, meetings, military parades, lectures, waxwork displays, film shows, telescreen programs all had to be organized; stands had to be erected, effigies… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The instruction at Edinburgh was altogether by lectures, and these were intolerably dull, with the exception of those on chemistry. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Academic chairs are many, but wise and noble teachers are few; lecture-rooms are numerous and large, but the number of young people… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I am absolutely convinced that the gas chambers of Auschwitz, Treblinka, and Maidanek were ultimately prepared not in some ministry or other… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
Give a lecture to a thousand people.One walks out and says,I'm going to change my life." Another one walks out with a… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
I couldn't reconcile what I was being taught at the university of Chicago, the lectures and the books I was being assigned,… — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
Reactions [on my 1979 Massey lectures] were from Anglophones. I'm one. But I'm terrible at French. In fact, there was practically no reaction. — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
I thought I would be an organic chemist. I went off to university, and when I couldn't understand the chemistry lectures I… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
I have looked warily at anthropologists ever since the day when I went to hear a great Greek scholar lecture on the… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
No one should pay attention to a man delivering a lecture or a sermon on his "philosophy of life" until we know… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
I was always a huge fan of E. E. Cummings. He did a series of lectures at Harvard or Princeton, and they… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
The infidelity that springs from the heart is not to be reached by a course of lectures on the evidences of Christianity;… — Mark Hopkins Copy Share Image
Within those confining walls, teachers - a bunch of men all armed with the same information - gave the same lectures every… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
Within a few years a simple and inexpensive device, readily carried about, will enable one to receive on land or sea the… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
PANDEMONIUM, n. Literally, the Place of All the Demons. Most of them have escaped into politics and finance, and the place is… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I would say just stop watching me, I guess, at this point. That is what I do, and it probably is, in… — David Cross Copy Share Image