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In case you're unfamiliar with TED, it is a series of short lectures on a variety of subjects that stream on the Internet for free.
— Alex Pareene
The Americans lecture the world on democracy and then won't let me turn the traction control off!
— Jeremy Clarkson
As a heart surgeon I am on constant call, and when not researching or giving lectures, I like to be with my family.
— Magdi Yacoub
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
I get up and retire when I wish. I go out if I wish and I do not go out if I do not desire to do so, except for the two days on which I give lectures.
— Pierre Bayle
We need to have lectures about why we can't have every day things like mayonnaise, ketchup and coke.
— Paolo Di Canio
he delivered a series of lectures that became books, which forever changed the way we look at
— Wayne W. Dyer
My lectures are published and not published; they will be intelligible to those who heard them, and to none beside.
— Aristotle.
Journalism is an immense power, that threatens soon to supersede sermons, lectures, and books.
— Theodore Tilton
How is Hillary Clinton going to lecture me about living paycheck to paycheck? I was raised paycheck to paycheck.
— Marco Rubio
Lectures were once useful; but now when all can read, and books are so numerous, lectures are unnecessary.
— Samuel Johnson
adult working in the field of science and doing lectures
— Noelle Adams
The instruction at Edinburgh was altogether by lectures, and these were intolerably dull, with the exception of those on chemistry.
— Charles Darwin
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
I followed lectures on the history, geography, economy and political organization of Sweden.
— Christian De Duve
The population decided - out of sheer panic at first - to carry on as if nothing had happened.
- Air War and Literature: The Zurich Lectures — W.G. Sebald
- Air War and Literature: The Zurich Lectures — W.G. Sebald
Lectures which really teach will never be popular; lectures which are popular will never really teach.
— Michael Faraday
If great lecture is theatre, the future of learning is games.
— Anant Agarwal
Wounds make better lessons than lectures.
— Brian Herbert
I give lectures for money, but all the money goes to charity. So, I make no money from it.
— Bob Woodward
Live in the fields, and God will give you lectures on natural philosophy every day.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The nature of fiction is to make one distrustful of any character who lectures and castigates.
— James Lasdun
Mistakes Are Life's Lectures You Didn't Plan To Attend But Situations Or People Made You Attend Them ... Pay Attention And Learn From Them
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu
I didn't go to the lectures. My valet, who was more distinguished than I, went instead.
— Witold Gombrowicz
I delivered lectures, and I was also a consultant for international companies in finance, both private equity and big venture capital funds.
— Ehud Barak
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
Five years from now on the web for free you'll be able to find the best lectures in the world. It will be better than any single university.
— Bill Gates
Instead of going to Paris to attend lectures, go to the public library, and you won't come out for twenty years, if you really wish to learn.
— Leo Tolstoy
Whenever I have given lectures to a large audience before, I have always looked for an ending that gives a 'wow' feeling.
— May-Britt Moser
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.
— Francine Pascal
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
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.
— Dan Jenkins
Everyone's a believer when things are going fine. The real faith is when one becomes patient with tribulations.
— Hamza Yusuf
The danger of lectures is that they create the illusion of teaching for teachers, and the illusion of learning for learners.
— Albert Camus
Even though I had a good income from my lectures, no one would give me a loan. The insanity almost drove me to sympathize with the feminist movement.
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
What clinical lectures I will give in heaven, demonstrating the ignorance of doctors!
— Israel Zangwill
The newspaper is a lecture. The Web is a conversation.
— James Lileks
If the Royal Variety Show was put in a matter transportation machine with the Royal Institution Christmas lectures, this is what you'd get.
— Robin Ince
My lectures were highly esteemed, but I am of opinion my operations rather kept down my practice, than increased it.
— Astley Cooper
A watch is the most essential part of a lecture.
— Willa Cather
Oh, that Einstein, always skipping lectures ... I certainly never would have thought he could do it.
— Hermann Minkowski
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
I attended [Sir Humphry] Davy's lectures to renew my stock of metaphors.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I would just as soon listen to a gangster lecture on honesty as watch Hollywood portray the Bible.
— Vance Havner
I give lectures on globalization. I have lived on three continents. I have no quarrel with a global consciousness.
— Os Guinness
She's so beautiful. She lectures a lot, like her father, but she's really beautiful.
— Diana S. Zimmerman
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
Lectures should go from being like the family singing around the piano to high-quality concerts.
— Bill Gates
When you speak, ask questions. Don't lecture.
— Denis Waitley
Lecture is the transfer of the notes of the lecturer to the notes of the student without passing through either.
— Eric Mazur
Don't be surprised if in the 21st century lectures on meditation appear in university catalogues for physics.
— Gary Zukav
[W]hatever my intentions, whatever the truth of my claim, I had no business giving a lecture to a total stranger.
— Ayelet Waldman
The opportunity to lecture had restored my good humor.
— Barbara Mertz
A math lecture without a proof is like a movie without a love scene. This talk has two proofs.
— Hendrik Lenstra
Most educators would continue to lecture on navigation while the ship is going down.
— James H. Boren
Live events and lectures in front of large audiences. It is the best. I like it more than eating dinner.
— David Wolfe
You rarely get a convincing lecture on playing to your strength from a bald guy with a ponytail.
— Dana Gould
In all my lectures, I have taught one doctrine, namely, the infinitude of the private man.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Since 'The Overachievers' came out, I've been doing a lot of lectures and talking to kids across the country.
— Alexandra Robbins
Let children feed on the good, the excellent, the great! Don't get in their way with little lectures, facts, and guided tours!
— Charlotte Mason
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
Ray's voice echoes in my head from one of his many self-defense lectures.
It's the panic that's gonna kill you or get you seriously hurt, Annie. — E.L. James
It's the panic that's gonna kill you or get you seriously hurt, Annie. — E.L. James
A slap in the face is more effective than ten lectures. It makes you understand very quickly.
— Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch
After one of the lectures in Philadelphia, a woman asked Chesterton what made women talk so much, to which he replied, briefly, 'God, Madam'.
— Ian T. Ker
Show me a Professor of Education, especially a Professor of E-learning, who lectures, and I'll show you a hypocrite who doesn't read the research.
— Donald Clark
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
I will gladly lecture for fifty dollars, but I'll not be a guest for less than a hundred.
— Elbert Hubbard
Events sometimes are the biggest teachers, as opposed to words, lectures, and that kind of thing.
— Rush Limbaugh
I write books, I write for comic books, I give lectures ... I live. And when the opportunity comes to do a picture, I do a picture.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
You won't catch me giving clear lectures.
— Donald Norman