#lecture

We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand. ↗

— Randy Pausch

#last-lecture #life #randy-pausch #change

Things are not quite what they seem always. Don't start me on class, otherwise you'll get a four-hour lecture. ↗

— Michael Caine

#class #get #lecture #me #otherwise

The interval allowed was only five minutes, at the end of which I resumed the lecture; but so refreshing was the effects of the brief rest and, above all, the admission of pure air, that during the second hour the attention was as completely sustained as during the first. ↗

— George Combe

#admission #air #allowed #attention #brief

It is just called Continuing Legal Education. You can go to lectures, you can even listen to tapes on airplanes - they want you to stay current. So you do have to stay current to maintain your license even if you are not practicing. ↗

— Frank Shorter

#continuing #current #education #even #go

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

When a nominee for the Supreme Court, one of only nine lifetime appointments, makes an overtly brazen racist comment about tens of millions of American citizens, we don't need lectures. What we need to do is to confront her with what she said and what it says about her. ↗

— Rush Limbaugh

#american #american citizens #appointments #brazen #citizens

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

My intention to lecture is as vague as my intention is to go on the stage. I will never consider an offer to lecture, not because I despise the vocation, but because I have no desire to appear on the public rostrum. ↗

— Mary MacLane

#because #consider #desire #despise #go

My father was an academic, an eccentric. He was a lecturer. ↗

— Elizabeth McGovern

#eccentric #father #lecturer

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