Lecture Hall Quotes

Within the confines of the lecture hall, no other virtue exists but plain intellectual integrity.

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

When I was at the University of California at Berkeley, I went to some classes that must have had more than four hundred students in them. I almost always sat in the far back of the auditorium so I could read the newspaper. I remember that I stayed late one day to ask the professor a question, and when I got up to him, all I could think to myself was, 'So this is what the professor looks like.

I am no Rushdie. The only people who think of silencing me are my students, on days when my lectures are more opaque than usual.

Want to know the best thing about being a professor? Colored chalk.

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.

A bunch of chairs lined up in front of a podium equals school.

Do not make the writer stand behind a podium. Anything but. A podium reeks of the lecture hall. A music stand, on the other hand, is nicely minimal and lends the writer - who usually needs all the help s/he can get - a musician's second-hand cool-factor.

It's legendary how architectural lectures can be incredibly boring.

I was married to a law student, and I used to attend classes with him at Georgetown University Law Center. Being of dramatic bent, I was drawn mainly to Criminal law and Evidence classes. A just-beginning writer, I would find an empty chair and listen, mesmerized, to the lectures.

One very clear memory I have of college is that I never learned anything in the big lectures. I have a feeling I'd have done even worse if they'd been on a laptop screen.

I'm used to teaching classes in the dark.

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

When I give a lecture on Egypt there are thousands of people in the lecture hall, so obviously they would like to go to science and they would love to do science, but you really have to get the correct science base in order for them to interact.