Famous Quotes and Proverbs
If you are looking for famous quotes and proverbs, you've come to the right place! Browse our largest database, which contains over 150,000 quotations, proverbs and sayings by the most renowned poets, artists, authors, inventors and researchers both living and deceased. Use our famous quotes and proverbs to support the content of your essay, term paper, research paper or dissertation. Be inspired by our quotes, proverbs and sayings now!
Search our collection by author, topic or keyword. It's completely FREE!
Browse Keywords:
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
(Click a letter to view the keywords)
(Click a letter to view the keywords)
Letter "L" » lecture
«The proverbial German phenomenon of the verb-at-the-end about which droll tales of absentminded professors who would begin a sentence, ramble on for an entire lecture, and then finish up by rattling off a string of verbs by which their audience, for whom the stack had long since lost its coherence, would be totally nonplussed, are told, is an excellent example of linguistic recursion.»
Author: Douglas Hofstadter
| Keywords:
absentminded, coherence, droll, finish off, finish up, German, lecture, nonplussed, phenomenon, professors, proverbial, ramble, ramble on, rambling, rattle off, rattling, recursion, stack, stacked, stacks, string, tales, verb, verbs
«Professors simply can't discuss a thing. Habit compels them to deliver a lecture.»
«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.»
Author: Marcel Achard
(Playwright)
| About:
Meetings
| Keywords:
lecture, lectured, lecturing, stopped, tolerate, watches
«There always seems to be someone looking over your shoulder - just waiting for an opportunity to lecture on The Darker Side of Chocolate»
«PANDEMONIUM, n. Literally, the Place of All the Demons. Most of them have escaped into politics and finance, and the place is now used as a lecture hall by the Audible Reformer. When disturbed by his voice the ancient echoes clamor appropriate responses most gratifying to his pride of distinction.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
appropriate, audible, clamor, clamoring, demons, disturbed, echoes, escaped, finance, financed, finances, financing, gratifying, hall, lecture, literally, pandemonium, reformer, responses
«Museums, museums, museums, object-lessons rigged out to illustrate the unsound theories of archaeologists, crazy attempts to co-ordinate and get into a fixed order that which has no fixed order and will not be co-coordinated! It is sickening! Why must all experience be systematized? A museum is not a first-hand contact: it is an illustrated lecture. And what one wants is the actual vital touch.»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
archaeologist, archaeologists, attempts, co-ordinate, co, coordinate, coordinated, coordinates, coordinating, First hand, illustrate, illustrated, lecture, museum, object lesson, ordinate, rigged, sickening, systematize, systematized, theories, unsound
«When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with such applause in the lecture room, how soon, unaccountable, I became tired and sick; Till rising and gliding out, I wandered off by myself, in the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time, looked up in perfect silence at the stars.»
Author: Walt Whitman
(Poet)
| Keywords:
applause, astronomer, astronomers, became, from time to time, glide, glided, glides, glide by, gliding, lecture, lectured, lecture room, lecturing, moist, mystical, rising, unaccountable, wandered
Research our database of free Biographies. Sign-up for the database of college sample papers for only $14.95/month. Buy a custom written essay, term paper, research paper or dissertation on any topic and get a discount!
