Lecture Quotes

In the first place, the preparation of the Nobel lecture which I am to give has shown me, even more clearly than I knew before, how many others share with me, often, indeed, have anticipated me, in the discoveries for which you have awarded me the prize.

People who get through life dependent on other people's possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count.

Things are not quite what they seem always. Don't start me on class, otherwise you'll get a four-hour lecture.

Life with a scientist who is often changing jobs and is frequently away at meetings and on lecture tours is not easy. Without a secure home base, I could not have made much progress.

I owed Lewis one thing, at least. Once you had suffered the experience of presenting a case at one of his Monday morning conferences, no other public appearance, whether on radio, TV or the lecture platform, could hold any terrors for you.

You can't just lecture the poor that they shouldn't riot or go to extremes. You have to make the means of legal redress available.

When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.

If I could sew comedy and philosophy together, then I've done a good job. The primary goal is always going to be laughs and the secondary goal is always going to be saying something without it being a lecture. I think it's important to have substance for what you're saying.

Well I teach in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. So that's my primary work. I lecture on various campuses and in various communities across the country and other parts of the world.

I don't lecture and I don't grind any axes. I just want to entertain.

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

And the reason I really appreciated this is because after the picture came out, I was invited by the American Psychiatric Association to give a lecture. I couldn't believe it!

Somebody's always getting me to come lecture to their writing class, and I don't talk about writing at all, I talk about the business of making a living at this racket.

A lecture is an occasion when you numb one end to benefit the other.

He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

They do not merely collect texts; they must also gather data about the context and the informant and, above all, write an analysis of the items based upon the course readings and lecture material on folklore theory and method.

Having George W. Bush giving a lecture on business ethics is like having a leper give you a facial, it just doesn't work!

When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we'll be funnier to look at than to read.