“Some years there just isn't enough work for lecturers. That, in general, is the source of reason. We do this when the budget comes out every year. It's a budgetary derived decision, and people have the right to know - so we tell them.”
David Lawton
“Bear in mind that the wonderful things you learn in your schools are the work of many generations. All this is put in your hands as your inheritance in order that you may receive it, honor it, add to it, and one day faithfully hand it on to your children.”
Albert Einstein
“Dictatorship is a constant lecture instructing you that your feelings, your thoughts and desires are of no account, that you are a nobody and must live as you are told by other people who desire and think for you”
Stephen Vizinczey
“How I want a drink, alcoholic of course, after the heavy lectures involving quantum mechanics!”
Isaac Asimov
“Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out.”
Frederick Douglas
“I don't lecture and I don't grind any axes. I just want to entertain.”
Gregory Peck
“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.”
Henry Louis Mencken