Professors simply can't discuss a thing. Habit compels them to deliver a lecture.

- Hal Boyle

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

- Michael Caine

I've been homeschooling for eight years and have always received the best advice and encouragement from other homeschoolers, rather than a book or lecture.

- Lisa Whelchel

I learnt pity, sympathy, and what it was like to be at the other end of the stick. Such lessons can't be learnt in lecture halls.

- Lionel Blue

I'm more interested in politicians who deal with human rights in their own country rather than lecture the rest of the world.

- Ken Livingstone

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

- John Gould

If I disagree with someone, I let them have their say and move on. I don't want to be the one to lecture.

- Joe Piscopo

I personally developed the Academy training program. All our training is based on solid educational principles. We present the material in four training formats: lecture, demonstration, drill, and implementation.

- Jim Evans

I say getting a lecturing from Oprah is probably the most terrifying lecture you could possibly get.

- Jane Velez-Mitchell

You can't just lecture the poor that they shouldn't riot or go to extremes. You have to make the means of legal redress available.

- Harold H. Greene

I haven't been silent. I teach, I lecture at universities, I write, I'm not silent.

- Bill Ayers

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

You will also allow me to thank the Academy for inviting me to lecture in Stockholm, for its hospitality, and for the opportunity afforded me for admiring the charm of your people and the beauty of your country.

- Guglielmo Marconi

I don't lecture and I don't grind any axes. I just want to entertain.

- Gregory Peck

My parents never really lecture me.

- Georgia Jagger

A lecture is much more of a dialogue than many of you probably realize.

- George Wald

In the first place, the preparation of the Nobel lecture which I am to give has shown me, even more clearly than I knew before, how many others share with me, often, indeed, have anticipated me, in the discoveries for which you have awarded me the prize.

- Frederick Soddy

Before I came here I was confused about this subject. Having listened to your lecture I am still confused. But on a higher level.

- Enrico Fermi

I realised a little bit to my astonishment that I can give a lecture for a thousand people, and there will be this tumultuous applause, so, you know, I have the feeling well, it can't be all that bad.

- Edmund Hillary

Even when I lecture per se, I am a joke comedian, I can do the voices.

- Dave Pelzer