Book Quote by Samuel Johnson

People have now a-days got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures can do…

— Samuel Johnson

Go into the street, and give one man a lecture on morality, and another a shilling, and see which will respect you most.

— Samuel Johnson

All unnecessary vows are folly, because they suppose a prescience of the future, which has not been given us.

— Samuel Johnson

When you go somewhere like Kenya and you see how the children don't have pencils and pens, and all of these things are considered…

— Naomie Harris

“Reality is a professor, all its lectures are truth.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

The poem might come to you as you're preparing to teach a lecture, right? And when you say, "no" to that occasion, that poem…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

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…

— Martha Plimpton

I am devoting my lecture in this seminar to a discussion of the possibility that we are now entering a Jewish century, a time…

— Martin A. Siegel

The modern school without systematic lectures turns out many graduates who lack retention. No sooner has the sound of the word left their teacher's…

— Arturo Alfonso Schomburg

I was married to a law student, and I used to attend classes with him at Georgetown University Law Center. Being of dramatic bent,…

— Luanne Rice

To the distracting occupations belong especially my lecture courses which I am holding this winter for the first time, and which now cost much…

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

I haven't been silent. I teach, I lecture at universities, I write, I'm not silent.

— Bill Ayers