Lecturer Quotes

31 Lecturer quotes by 30 unique authors

I saw Linus Pauling as a brilliant lecturer and a man with a fantastic memory, and a great, great showman. I think he was the… — Max Perutz
A lecturer often makes you feel dumb at one end and numb at the other. — Evan Esar
The lecturer who is full of his subject is usually very slow in emptying himself. — Evan Esar
I am a successful lecturer in physics for popular audiences. The real entertainment gimmick is the excitement, drama and mystery of the subject matter. People… — Richard P. Feynman
I was trying to put myself in a bottle that would one day wash up on the beach for my children. If I were a… — Randy Pausch
Lecture is the transfer of the notes of the lecturer to the notes of the student without passing through either. — Eric Mazur
Running overtime is the one unforgivable error a lecturer can make. After fifty minutes (one microcentury as von Neumann used to say) everybody's attention will… — Gian-Carlo Rota
That kind of thing happens to black people every day in this country, and they don't receive that kind of sentence he did, which was… — Ishmael Reed
LECTURER, n. One with his hand in your pocket, his tongue in your ear and his faith in your patience. — Ambrose Bierce
But it has also enabled me to find my feet as a lecturer and a reader of my own plays to audiences who like to… — Laurence Housman
[T]he most viciously intolerant campus I ever visited as a lecturer was Brown, where the humanities program has been gutted by a jejune brand of… — Camille Paglia
Most people tire of a lecture in ten minutes; clever people can do it in five. Sensible people never go to lectures at all. But… — Stephen Leacock
My father was an academic, an eccentric. He was a lecturer. — Elizabeth McGovern
I have taught history on the high school and college levels, and am or have been a lecturer at the Smithsonian, The National Institutes of… — Jack L. Chalker
From 1931 to 1937, I was a Fellow and Lecturer in Economics at Hertford College, Oxford. — James Meade
Every minister, lecturer and public speaker know the discouragement of pouring himself of herself out to an audience and not receiving a single ripple of… — Dale Carnegie
If a lecturer, he wishes to be heard; if a writer, to be read. He always hopes for a public beyond that of the long-suffering… — Samuel Eliot Morison
Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out. — Frederick Douglass
The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction. — Michael Faraday
One shouldn't ever be conscious of the author as lecturer. When social or moral points are too heavily stressed, I always get uncomfortable. — Orson Welles
The late great Horace Lloyd Swithin (1844-1917), British essayist, lecturer, satirist, and social observer, wrote in his autobiographical Appointments, 1890-1901 (1902), "When one travels abroad,… — Marisha Pessl
The Almighty Lecturer, by displaying the principles of science in the structure of the universe, has invited man to study and to imitation. It is… — Thomas Paine
The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of… — Virginia Woolf
A lecturer once told me I could never be a director. I was 16. I believed him. — Paddy Considine
According to my parents, I was supposed to have been a nice, churchgoing Swiss housewife. Instead I ended up an opinionated psychiatrist, author and lecturer… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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