#lecture

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. ↗

— Sinclair Lewis

#authors #come #funnier #hope #largely

I like what I'm doing. Today at 88, I wouldn't think of quitting because I can't think of anything else I would rather do. And now with my lectures on all the charitable things that I do, just as you do, I think that what I'm doing matters. ↗

— Art Linkletter

#because #charitable #doing #else #i

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

#bad #because #detest #go #i

If a lecturer, he wishes to be heard; if a writer, to be read. He always hopes for a public beyond that of the long-suffering wife. ↗

— Samuel E. Morison

#beyond #heard #hopes #lecturer #public

I went on all over the States, ranting poems to enthusiastic audiences that, the week before, had been equally enthusiastic about lectures on Railway Development or the Modern Turkish Essay. ↗

— Dylan Thomas

#audiences #been #before #development #enthusiastic

It's easier to lecture women on sexual morality than it is to explain why all Americans shouldn't have comprehensive, fair, and equal health care coverage. ↗

— Martha Plimpton

#care #comprehensive #coverage #easier #equal

Going to a party, for me, is as much a learning experience as, you know, sitting in a lecture. ↗

— Natalie Portman

#experience #going #know #learning #lecture

Somebody's always getting me to come lecture to their writing class, and I don't talk about writing at all, I talk about the business of making a living at this racket. ↗

— Jerry Pournelle

#always #business #class #come #getting

Being lectured by the president on fiscal responsibility is a little bit like Tony Soprano talking to me about law and order in this country. ↗

— John F. Kerry

#being #bit #country #fiscal #fiscal responsibility

When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped. ↗

— Marcel Achard

#ear #find #give #i #i do