Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aristotle

My lectures are published and not published; they will be intelligible to those who heard them, and to none beside.

Os Guinness

I give lectures on globalization. I have lived on three continents. I have no quarrel with a global consciousness.

James Lasdun

The nature of fiction is to make one distrustful of any character who lectures and castigates.

Hal Boyle

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

John McCain

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

Sinclair Lewis

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.

Michael Faraday

Lectures which really teach will never be popular; lectures which are popular will never really teach.

Willa Cather

A watch is the most essential part of a lecture.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I attended [Sir Humphry] Davy's lectures to renew my stock of metaphors.

Aristotle

The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor.

Aristotle

Metaphor is halfway between the unintelligible and the commonplace.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

Any supreme insight is a metaphor.

Gerald Edelman

Early human thought proceeded by metaphor,

Robert Schmuhl

Branson is a metaphor for red state America,

Jeff Smith

Walt Kelly was much more interested in allegory and politics, and I'm much more interested in metaphors and myth.

Gaston Bachelard

The metaphor is~ an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.

Florence King

Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.

Mike Birbiglia

Life is unfair and improv is a great metaphor of that.