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A museum is not a first-hand contact: it is an illustrated lecture. And what one wants is the actual vital touch. — D.H. Lawrence

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

The Americans lecture the world on democracy and then won't let me turn the traction control off! — Jeremy Clarkson

Teaching Ramanujan was like writing on a blackboard covered with excerpts from a more interesting lecture. — Lawrence Young

Rand Paul comes off like an academic stiff who wants to give us a lecture on American civics. — Mark McKinnon

One does not simply ring Roland.
Oh boy. I supposed I would get a lecture on the dangers of wandering into Mordor next. — Ilona Andrews

I remember," someone said, "how in ancient times one could turn a wolf into a human and then lecture it to one's heart's content. — Charles Simic

Look, if I'd wanted a lecture on the rights of man, I'd have gone to bed with Martin Luther. — Rowan Atkinson

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

The professor ignored Lynn's comments and proceeded with his lecture. — Sherman Alexie

Sometimes you are garrulous, Taita.' Pharaoh was less than captivated by my lecture on the palace architecture. 'Get on — Wilbur Smith

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

Failure to recognize learning styles in public schools has promoted a standard lecture format for teaching, which has frustrated the learning of many. — Rick Blackwood

I'm dying and I'm having fun. And I'm going to keep having fun every day I have left. — Randy Pausch

How is Hillary Clinton going to lecture me about living paycheck to paycheck? I was raised paycheck to paycheck. — Marco Rubio

It's good to make mistakes whether they are common or obscure, we learn more from our own mistakes while working rather than from any book or lecture. — Tanay Pant

Don't lecture someone on their choices when you don't know their story. — Jacob Gates

A suffering person does not need a lecture - he needs a listener. — Billy Graham

I recall once saying that when I had given the same lecture several times I couldn't help feeling that they really ought to know it by now. — John Edensor Littlewood

If great lecture is theatre, the future of learning is games. — Anant Agarwal

Experience is often the most valuable thing you have to offer. — Randy Pausch

Important lecture!' cried Pnin. 'What to do? It is a catastroph! — Vladimir Nabokov

My mother has always had an ability to deliver an entire lecture with a single glance. I get the glance. — Colleen Hoover

It's useless to lecture a human. — Rick Riordan

Dad hit lecture mode from word one. — Devon Monk

When you do the right thing, good stuff has a way of happening. — Randy Pausch

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

Focus on other people, not on yourself. — Randy Pausch

The first lecture of each new year renews for most people a light stage fright. — John Edensor Littlewood

I never thought that someone would be teaching one of my fanzines. I never thought I'd be off to lecture at a college. It's still shocking to me. — Kathleen Hanna

There is no position outside of reason where you can stand and lecture about reason and pass judgment on reason. — J.M. Coetzee

Every professor secretly thinks that what the world needs is a good, solid lecture
from him, of course. — Gregory Benford

Occasionally I write a small piece or the odd lecture in English, and I teach in English, but my fiction is always written in German. — W.G. Sebald

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. — Sinclair Lewis

His moral lecture
blazed with hate.
What could have driven a child that far? — Dag Hammarskjold

I learnt pity, sympathy, and what it was like to be at the other end of the stick. Such lessons can't be learnt in lecture halls. — Lionel Blue

According lecture, entire effort United States to incite desire, inflict want, inspire demand. — Chuck Palahniuk

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

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

The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave. — William James

We wear the global sweat of women and girls on our bodies" - Angela Davis, lecture at UC Davis, Sponsored by the Women's Resources and Research Center — Angela Davis

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. — Abraham Lincoln

A real education takes place, not in the lecture hall or library, but in the rooms of friends, with earnest frolic and happy disputation. — Stephen Fry

Lecture your children every day. You may not know what they did wrong, but they do! — Joanne Fluke

I didn't come here to talk politics with you, baby ," Brady said, pushing the door closed behind them. "Lecture me after I'm done with you. — K.A. Linde

He shook his head and looked away, as if he was giving himself a firm lecture only he could here. — Roni Loren

College is a place where a professor's lecture notes go straight to the students' lecture notes, without passing through the brains of either. — Mark Twain

J.R.R. Tolkien, said a student, "could turn a lecture room into a mead hall in which he was the bard and we were the feasting, listening guests. — Philip Zaleski

Even when I lecture per se, I am a joke comedian, I can do the voices. — Dave Pelzer

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

Going to a party, for me, is as much a learning experience as, you know, sitting in a lecture. — Natalie Portman

Within the confines of the lecture hall, no other virtue exists but plain intellectual integrity. — Max Weber

To be a teacher does not mean simply to affirm that such a thing is so, or to deliver a lecture, etc. — Soren Kierkegaard

Cosmology is a science which has only a few observable facts to work with. — Robert Woodrow Wilson

Professors simply can't discuss a thing. Habit compels them to deliver a lecture. — Hal Boyle

I will gladly lecture for fifty dollars, but I'll not be a guest for less than a hundred. — Elbert Hubbard

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

Vitellius would've given Percy an hour-long lecture on the subject, probably with a PowerPoint presentation. — Rick Riordan

A sex lecture from two senior citizens ... it was worth it to get that kiss from you. — Kathleen Brooks

[W]hatever my intentions, whatever the truth of my claim, I had no business giving a lecture to a total stranger. — Ayelet Waldman

Irish girls, red hair,' I replied, remembering a picture of them from Mrs. Casnoff's 'People Who Want to Kill Us All' lecture at Hex Hall last year. — Rachel Hawkins

No one can teach us the joy of living; we are endowed with it. So why are we continually waiting for the lecture? — Dee Hock

She gave me a philosophical lecture ala "Course in Miracles", where reality is a reflection of one's attitude and expectations. — Mark Heying

Agassiz would not lecture at five hundred dollars a night, because he had no time to make money. — Orison Swett Marden

Lecture is the transfer of the notes of the lecturer to the notes of the student without passing through either. — Eric Mazur

I found when I had finished my new lecture that it was a very good house, only the architect had unfortunately omitted the stairs. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

When you speak, ask questions. Don't lecture. — Denis Waitley

A lecture is much more of a dialogue than many of you probably realize. — George Wald

What school, college, or lecture bring men depends on what men bring to carry it home in. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

When you've got the upper hand, don't lose it by giving a lecture. — Ichiro Sakaki

In his final years of life, Hopkins took to the lecture circuit. His talks on the "Laws of Scientific Advertising" attracted thousands of people. — Charles Duhigg

We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand. — Randy Pausch

Because of what I loved at 7, I still get jobs in my 60's. Guess who got the job? Crazy Ray.
Ray Bradbury — Sherri Rabinowitz

Rosa!" Sally says. "The police are here to help you, not to hear a lecture on comparative murder rates. — Justine Larbalestier

One of the greatest joys in my life was giving a lecture in French at the College de France. — James Cronin

not have noticed my fidgeting. His ignorance of it will make it easier to appease mother during her lecture. But it's hard — Janeal Falor

Landlocked Switzerland: They're Nice and Neutral Only Because They're Tiny — Marisha Pessl

I would love to lecture to women on men. I'd tell them everything about men: gay, straight, bi, how we're all the same, how we're all bastards. — John Barrowman

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. — Charles Caleb Colton

Like all people who try to exhaust a subject, he exhausted his listeners. — Kingsley Amis

If I was able to tell my story with the passion I felt, my lecture might help others find a path to fulfilling their own dreams. — Randy Pausch

Most people can tire of a lecture in fifteen minutes, clever people can do it in five, and sensible people don't go to lectures at all. — Stephen Leacock

If a lecture was not interesting or proceeded too slowly or too quickly, they would jeer and become rowdy. — Leonard Mlodinow

By the time the lecture ended and the audience awoke, she had built up a splendid fortune for herself (not the first founded on paper) ... — Louisa May Alcott

People don't listen when you lecture. No one wants to be talked down to or scolded. — Scott Thompson

I'm more interested in politicians who deal with human rights in their own country rather than lecture the rest of the world. — Ken Livingstone

lecture notes are a way of transmitting information from the lecturer to the student without it passing through the minds of either one of them. — Kevin Carey

You don't get to lecture me on failures! I trusted you, treated you like a brother! - The Dark Lion — Jeremy Croston

Before I came here, I was confused about this subject. Having listened to your lecture, I am still confused
but on a higher level. — Enrico Fermi

You'll often hear the left lecture about the importance of dissent in a free society. — David Harsanyi

The place went on forever-like Costco or a chemistry lecture. — Rick Riordan

Failure is not just acceptable, it's often essential. The Last Lecture — Randy Pausch

book called The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch, — Will Schwalbe

Nine SPEAKING IN TONGUES The following is based on a lecture given at the New York Public Library in December 2008. 1 — Zadie Smith

If I disagree with someone, I let them have their say and move on. I don't want to be the one to lecture. — Joe Piscopo

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

You rarely get a convincing lecture on playing to your strength from a bald guy with a ponytail. — Dana Gould

Most educators would continue to lecture on navigation while the ship is going down. — James H. Boren

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

The opportunity to lecture had restored my good humor. — Barbara Mertz