#lecture

Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as "a wise Latina" trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#bad #days #embarrassment #feminism #herself

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

Well in two months, it'd be sunbathing time. That made me smile. I enjoyed lying in the sun in a little bikini, timing myself carefully so I didn't burn. I loved the smell of coconut oil. And I don't want to hear any lectures about how bad tanning is for you. That's my vice. Everybody gets one. ↗

— Charlaine Harris

#coconut-oil #lectures #sookie-stackhouse #sunbathing #tanning

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

I have taught history on the high school and college levels, and am or have been a lecturer at the Smithsonian, The National Institutes of Health, and numerous colleges and universities, mostly on science fiction and technology subjects. ↗

— Jack L. Chalker

#been #college #colleges #fiction #health

So, I am independently well-off and don't have to do anything, but I still do. I write books, lecture around the world, work with scientists and governments. ↗

— Uri Geller

#anything #around #books #governments #i

A lecture is an occasion when you numb one end to benefit the other. ↗

— John Gould

#end #lecture #numb #occasion #other

But it has also enabled me to find my feet as a lecturer and a reader of my own plays to audiences who like to hear them; and that experience of immediate appreciation gives greater pleasure and more stimulus towards further activity than even the most laudatory of reviews. ↗

— Laurence Housman

#also #appreciation #audiences #enabled #even

Now we, if not in the spirit, have been caught up to see our earth, our mother, Gaia Mater, set like a jewel in space. We have no excuse now for supposing her riches inexhaustible nor the area we have to live on limitless because unbounded. We are the children of that great blue white jewel. Through our mother we are part of the solar system and part through that of the whole universe. In the blazing poetry of the fact we are children of the stars. ↗

— William Golding

#earth #environment #gaia #life #nature