Lectures Quotes
268 quotes by 239 authors
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I give lectures for money, but all the money goes to charity. So, I make no money from it.
— Bob Woodward
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So you didn’t tell me it was a messed-up idea to keep this all a secret because. . .†“Because experience is the only teacher, 
— Chris Crutcher
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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.
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Backlock, a poet blind from his birth, could describe visual objects with accuracy; Professor Sanderson, who was also blind, gave excellent lectures on color, and…
— Thomas Hardy
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When I heard the learn’d astronomer; When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me; When I was shown the charts and the…
— Walt Whitman
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Instead of going to Paris to attend lectures, go to the public library, and you won't come out for twenty years, if you really wish…
— Leo Tolstoy
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It's useless to lecture a human.
— Rick Riordan
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…. Query: How contrive not to waste one's time? Answer: By being fully aware of it all the while. Ways in which this can be…
— Albert Camus
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The commentator may be excused for repeating what he has stressed in his own books and lectures, namely that "offensive" is frequently but a synonym…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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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
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Loafe with me on the grass—loose the stop from your throat; Not words, not music or rhyme I want—not custom or lecture, not even the…
— Walt Whitman
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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
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Dude did you come here to lecture or to fight? BRING IT ON." -Slam Dunk
— Takehiko Inoue
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With every lecture, you’re forced to look again at every choice you’ve made over the lesson-by-lesson chain of your entire life. And after all these…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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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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Making judgments on films is in many ways so peculiarly vaporous an occupation that the only question is why, beyond the obvious opportunities for a…
— Joan Didion
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Instructions for Adam Look after no one except yourself. Go to university and make lots of friends and get drunk. Forget your door keyes. Laugh.…
— Jenny Downham
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October— You were sleeping so peacefully that I was loath to wake you. Duke Torquill, after demanding to know what I was doing in your…
— Mira Grant
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For official record, announce instructor, the state requires no epic hero. No strive achieve personal celebrity of spotlight and applause. Lectures instructor, the state desires…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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You should make her call you ‘Miss Georgina,’†added Hugh with a mocking southern drawl. “Or at least ‘ma’am.’†Niphon’s presence and Jerome’s lecture had…
— Richelle Mead
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