Lectures Quotes - Page 4

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.

In those days [the 1790s],the students paid their professors directly for the lectures-typically about three guineas a class (a guinea was worth slightly more than a pound).

I've seen enough killing in my life. I know how precious human life is and I don't need a lecture from you.

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 yawn and says,"I've heard all this before."Why is that? Why wouldn't both be affected the same way?Another mystery."

We don't want to go to a movie and sit in a lecture.

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.

Getting a lecture on restraint from the woman who threw a hissy fit and blew up Babylon.

A math lecture without a proof is like a movie without a love scene. This talk has two proofs.

My parents never really lecture me.

Processions, meetings, military parades, lectures, waxwork displays, film shows, telescreen programs all had to be organized; stands had to be erected, effigies built, slogans coined, songs written, rumours circulated, photographs faked.

I attended a lecture by a gray-haired old man from Finland, who later I discovered was the architect Alvar Aalto. I was very moved. I wasn't interested in architecture, but it was a moving thing I've never forgotten.

You see, Suzanne, history lectures bore me, art films bore me, your friends bore me, and, if you want to know the truth, I guess you bore me too.

I delivered lectures, and I was also a consultant for international companies in finance, both private equity and big venture capital funds.

Live events and lectures in front of large audiences. It is the best. I like it more than eating dinner.

The golf ball has no sense at all, which is why it has to be given stern lectures constantly, especially during the act of putting.

Wounds make better lessons than lectures.

Everything, decided Francie after that first lecture, was vibrant with life and there was no death in chemistry. She was puzzled as to why learned people didn't adopt chemistry as a religion.

The opportunity to lecture had restored my good humor.

Whatever my intentions, whatever the truth of my claim, I had no business giving a lecture to a total stranger.

Sylvia had given him a scalding lecture, the gist of it being that whatever a woman enjoyed wearing was feminine and anything she didn't enjoy wearing wasn't, and if he was too stubborn and old fashioned to understand that, he could go and soak his head in a bucket of cold water. He hadn't quite forgiven her yet for saying they would have to look hard to find a bucket big enough to fit his head in to, but he admired the sass behind the remark.

I regret that it has been necessary for me in this lecture to administer a large dose of four-dimensional geometry. I do not apologize, because I am really not responsible for the fact that nature in its most fundamental aspect is four-dimensional. Things are what they are.

The danger of lectures is that they create the illusion of teaching for teachers, and the illusion of learning for learners.

I find quite as much material for a lecture in those points wherein I have failed, as in those wherein I have been moderately successful.

His students were hardly in a position to tell him when he was getting windy, and he had recently noticed, as most professors did after a while, that his lectures mysteriously seemed to be getting longer with time.