Famous Quotes & Sayings

Annalee Newitz

When I was a lecturer at UC Berkeley, I wrote a book about monsters.

Aristotle

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

W. G. Sebald

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.

Os Guinness

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

Paul Larsen

When they go back and lecture about that material from the textbook, they have a brand-new perspective on what they're talking about.

David Souter

In a perfect world, I would never give another speech, address, talk, lecture or whatever as long as I live.

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.

Hal Boyle

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

John Grisham

We have the crime of the century every six months. So for people like me who enjoy, you know, taking these stories and writing about them, the material is endless.

Janis Joplin

Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz.

Jonathon Hamilton

None of these are material to this transaction.

Bob Newhart

You never know when you'll come upon something and it's going to be fodder for new material.

Richard Palmer

But they have to be encapsulated to be useful in real-world applications. In the past, encapsulation spoiled the very material properties we're after.

Don Brownlee

But the study of these materials will go on for decades.

Edward Abbey

The very poor are strictly materialistic. It takes money to be a mystic.

George Wald

There is nothing worth having that can be obtained by nuclear war - nothing material or ideological - no tradition that it can defend. It is utterly self-defeating.

Bikram Choudhury

There's nothing wrong with material things as long as you don't lie, cheat and steal.

David Hockney

The cameras are getting smaller, they're getting more versatile, and eventually, I'm sure you'll have a camera with lots and lots of things on it so you can alter the picture. You could alter perspective.

David Brinkley

People have the illusion that all over the world, all the time, all kinds of fantastic things are happening. When in fact, over most of the world, most of the time, nothing is happening.

Arthur Peacocke

The scientific perspective of the world, especially the living world, inexorably impresses on us a dynamic picture of the world of entities and structures involved in continuous and incessant change and in process without ceasing.

Denis Waitley

You must look within for value, but must look beyond for perspective.

Aimee Mann

Something gets lost when you translate. It's hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.

Charles James

I recognize that virtually every company that comes in here has a perspective. It's often not difficult to understand why they have the perspective that they have.

Ron Vaughn

When you put it into perspective, it's not that much.

Ben Hatfield

Let's put this in perspective. Who do I tell not to celebrate? I didn't know if there were 12 or 1 (who were alive).

Bennett Hatfield

Let's put this in perspective. Who do I tell not to celebrate?

David Hoffman

Despite his deeply-held ideology, Reagan was willing to talk to Gorbachev. He willing to do business with him. We should realize that engaging with adversaries is often one of our great strengths. As long as we use the engagement to stand up for the things we care about, there is no harm in talking.

David Hockney

I do do a lot of talking, because it saves me listening.

David Hockney

On the 31st of October 2011 year, I had a mini-stroke. I couldn't finish my sentences. So I went to the doctor. It was a tiny one. The speech came back in a month or so. I did notice I could draw even better, I felt. I was concentrating more. And I wasn't talking much, but I was drawing. I said, "Well, I don't have to talk much."

David Hume

The identity that we ascribe to things is only a fictitious one, established by the mind, not a peculiar nature belonging to what we’re talking about.

David Brock

You get to a point where the factual adjudication doesn't matter because there are all these other outlets that are far less responsible, all talking about the ad, some of which have a political reason for promoting it.

David Brooks

I came to the conclusion is that we have a very shallow view of human nature in the policy world. We're really good at talking about material things, really bad at talking about emotions, really good at stuff we can count, really bad at the deeper stuff that actually drives behavior.

Arthur Ransome

Good fishermen know that in talking about fishing, nothing is more interesting than the truth.

Denis Leary

I actually like talking.

Deb Caletti

We're as good at talking ourselves out of fear as into it, aren't we? Maybe better.