Great Lecture Quotes

#1. If great lecture is theatre, the future of learning is games.

Anant Agarwal

#2. I stared down the slim barrel of a gun, looked into eyes rabid with fear and hatred, and saw my reflection. Pulled the trigger to make it go away.
I heard the echoes of my gunshots, smelled the cordite, and in the smoke, I still saw my reflection and knew I always would.

Dennis Lehane

#3. Satnav will get us quickly and all-too-predictably from A to B, but the path of life is more interesting when we're allowed to explore the side streets.

Fennel Hudson

#4. This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#5. The keeper was unsighted - he still didn't see it.

Ron Atkinson

#6. The difference between a heel and a coward and one who jumps in the fire and one who runs away from the fire; is up to the individual in how they manage a given situation.

Stephen Richards

#7. Within IBM at that time, growing a beard without getting fired was an indisputable mark of technical genius. In

Gerald M. Weinberg

#8. Hollywood is going to have to find a way of meeting those profit goals.

Peter Bart

#9. We are destiny's lovers. If there is not time for us," he said as he took my hand, "then there will never be time for anyone.

Pamela DuMond

#10. If I were put into a college lecture hall right now and told to pay attention for 45 minutes, it would be physically impossible for me to do. I'm one of those people who believe that ADD is a gift. It's tough to manage, but if you can harness it you can do great things.

Jeff Kinney

#11. Recently I gave a lecture and a gentleman came to me and asked how I'd like to be remembered, i'd never been asked that before, so I thought for a few seconds. And I said I want to be remembered that I had a great love for my fellow man.

Billy Casper

#12. I discover that some of the Eastern papers represent me as a great blasphemer, because I said, in my lecture on Marriage, at our last Conference, that Jesus Christ was married at Cana of Galilee, that Mary, Martha, and others were his wives, and that he begat children.

Orson Pratt

#13. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#14. I have looked warily at anthropologists ever since the day when I went to hear a great Greek scholar lecture on the Iliad, and listened for an hour to talk about bull-roarers and leopard-societies.

Katharine Fullerton Gerould