Lecture Quotes

191 quotes by 175 authors

I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures… — H. L. Mencken
This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture… — V.S. Naipaul
Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as 'a wise Latina' trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days… — Camille Paglia
Even when I lecture per se, I am a joke comedian, I can do the voices. — Dave Pelzer
It's easier to lecture women on sexual morality than it is to explain why all Americans shouldn't have comprehensive, fair, and equal health care coverage. — Martha Plimpton
Going to a party, for me, is as much a learning experience as, you know, sitting in a lecture. — Natalie Portman
We shall listen, not lecture; learn, not threaten. We will enhance our safety by earning the respect of others and showing respect for them. In… — Theodore C. Sorensen
As you lecture, you keep watching the faces, and information keeps coming back to you all the time. — George Wald
A lecture is much more of a dialogue than many of you probably realize. — George Wald
Having George W. Bush giving a lecture on business ethics is like having a leper give you a facial, it just doesn't work! — Robin Williams
So you didnâ€™t tell me it was a messed-up idea to keep this all a secret because. . .â€ â€œBecause experience is the only teacher,â€… — Chris Crutcher
Dad himself used to tell a story about one time when Mother went off to fill a lecture engagement and left him in charge at… — Frank B. Gilbreth Jr.
When I heard the learnâ€™d astronomer; When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me; When I was shown the charts and the… — Walt Whitman
It's useless to lecture a human. — Rick Riordan
It could be a meeting on the street, or a party or a lecture, or just a simple, banal introduction, then suddenly there is a… — John O'Donohue
Loafe with me on the grassâ€”loose the stop from your throat; Not words, not music or rhyme I wantâ€”not custom or lecture, not even the… — Walt Whitman
A lecture has been well described as the process whereby the notes of the teacher become the notes of the student without passing through the… — Mortimer Adler
Dude did you come here to lecture or to fight? BRING IT ON." -Slam Dunk — Takehiko Inoue
With every lecture, youâ€™re forced to look again at every choice youâ€™ve made over the lesson-by-lesson chain of your entire life. And after all these… — Chuck Palahniuk
The woman in charge of costuming assigned us our outfits and gave us a lecture on keeping things clean. She held up a calendar and… — David Sedaris

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