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.

Charles Kennedy

I should do something about the cigarettes; I quite accept that it's bad for your health, but you know a moderate tipple is positively beneficial and, at certain times, absolutely essential.

Tom Wolfe

Everyone is taught the essentials of writing for at least 13 years, maybe more if they go to college. Nobody is taught music or tap dancing that way.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Only what is essential must be said.

Albert Einstein

Playfullness is the essential feature of productive thought.

Albert Einstein

Nature conceals her mystery by her essential grandeur.

Alexander Hamilton

To attach full confidence to an institution of this nature, it appears to be an essential ingredient in its structure, that it shall be under private and not a public direction-under the guidance of individual interest, not of public policy; which, would be . . . liable to being too much influenced by public necessity.

Adolf Hitler

The National Socialist state refuses to admit female labour in factories merely because such labour is cheap. There is, of course, a certain amount of industrial work which can only be performed by women, but an essential condition is that this sort of work should not be injurious to health.

Adam McKay

I'm not against banking. Banking allowed our modern society to happen, it is essential. It connects the work through finance, so banking is good.

Ada Lovelace

One essential object is to choose that arrangement which shall tend to reduce to a minimum the time necessary for completing the calculation.

B. J. Novak

There's not many good comedies to watch - you know, comedies that make you glad you watched them.

Bill Burr

When I watch 'Breaking Bad,' my stomach is in knots.

Charles R. Swindoll

It's the most exciting thing to watch God work when I've asked him about something, to listen to him and watch him work. It's like this friendship, and it just grows and grows and grows and grows.

Charles Babbage

The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almost insensible; yet, by the aid of a few wheels, its effect is spread over the whole twenty-four hours.

Dave Rowntree

Yes, actually. Animation's a very easy thing to watch on tour.

Barbara Mertz

When one is striding bravely into the future one cannot watch one's footing.

Dennis Quaid

I've done so many movies that when I see them I don't really watch them.

Ben Katchor

I never wore a watch. I always depend on public clocks, and stores have clocks, but that is strange.

Alexandra Fuller

In general, I almost always watch foreign films.