Quotes of: Lecture Keyword

People have now a-days, (said he,) got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures can do so much good as reading the books from which the lectures are taken. I know nothing that can be best taught...

The Life of Samuel Johnson Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Vol 2

This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture to give. And that is true.

V. S. Naipaul

The world is teeming; anything can happen.

Silence: Lectures and Writings

Lecturing Brooks was as useful as lecturing a cat.

The Key to the Golden Firebird

There is more food in a pennyworth of bread than in a gallon of ale.

A Lecture on Malt Liquor

Writing is the great invention of the world.

Discoveries and Inventions: A Lecture by Abraham Lincoln Delivered in 1860

Time is the Mind of Space.

Space, Time and Deity: The Gifford Lectures at Glasgow Part One

I say getting a lecturing from Oprah is probably the most terrifying lecture you could possibly get.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.

New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis

I love my love with a b because she is peculiar.

Narration: Four Lectures by Gertrude Stein

In the world of imagination, all things belong.

The Triggering Town: Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing

Don’t bleach language, savour it instead. Stroke it gently or even groom it, but don’t “purify” it.

The Neutral: Lecture Course at the College de France

Poet To mask the fiery thought, in simple words succeeds. For still the craft of genius is, To mask a king in weeds

Selected Essays, Lectures, and Poems

The emotions - love, mirth, the heroic, wonder, tranquility, fear, anger, sorrow, disgust - are in the audience.

Silence: Lectures and Writings

I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them.

H. L. Mencken

One of our professors described a lecture as 'a mystical process by which the notes on the pad of the lecturer pass on to the pad of the student, without passing through the mind of either'.

John Cleese

THE QUESTION IS, OF COURSE, IS IT GOING TO BE POSSIBLE TO AMALGAMATE EVERYTHING, AND MERELY DISCOVER THAT THIS WORLD REPRESENTS DIFFERENT ASPECTS OF ONE THING?

The Feynman Lectures on Physics Vols 1-2

Words and magic were in the beginning one and the same thing, and even today words retain much of their magical power.

Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis

My intention to lecture is as vague as my intention is to go on the stage. I will never consider an offer to lecture, not because I despise the vocation, but because I have no desire to appear on the public rostrum.

Mary MacLane

When I lecture, under almost all circumstances, I write a new lecture for the occasion. It helps me think. It helps me make demands of myself that I would not otherwise make.

Marilynne Robinson

I don't join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn't have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying child in Heaven - that's none of my business, ultimately. I won't lecture her on the philosophy of science.

Noam Chomsky