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From 1931 to 1937, I was a Fellow and Lecturer in Economics at Hertford College, Oxford. -- James Meade
In 1938, I was given a one-year teaching appointment, which was sensational for British universities. This was converted into the usual four-year contract for an Assistant Lecturer in 1939. -- Arthur Lewis
I've been interested in LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka's work for quite a while. My first introduction to LeRoi Jones was when my mother used to read me the 'Dead Lecturer' poems when I was a kid. -- Rashid Johnson
To me, history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me, it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is."[The Title Always Comes Last; NEH 2003 Jefferson Lecturer interview profile] -- David McCullough
My father was an academic, an eccentric. He was a lecturer. -- Elizabeth McGovern
A lecturer once told me I could never be a director. I was 16. I believed him. -- Paddy Considine
Both of my parents had a change of career. My mum was a nurse, and now she's a college lecturer. -- Laura Fraser
Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out. -- Frederick Douglass
The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction. -- Michael Faraday
One shouldn't ever be conscious of the author as lecturer. When social or moral points are too heavily stressed, I always get uncomfortable. -- Orson Welles
If a lecturer, he wishes to be heard; if a writer, to be read. He always hopes for a public beyond that of the long-suffering wife. -- Samuel Eliot Morison
At university level, I had an economics lecturer who used to joke that I was the only student who handed in essays on British Airways notepaper. -- Sebastian Coe
I'd like to be an academic, a philosophy lecturer if possible. I'd do a Masters in Ancient Hebrew maybe, and a Ph.D. hopefully, if I get in. -- Jack Gleeson
I was born in 1943 at Neston in the Wirral, not far from Liverpool where my father, Richard William Hunt was a lecturer in paleography, the study of mediaeval manuscripts. -- Tim Hunt
My father started his own business, and before that was a freelance lecturer, and my friends are artists and musicians; they don't have real jobs - none of us have real jobs. -- Rupert Friend
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
That kind of thing happens to black people every day in this country, and they don't receive that kind of sentence he did, which was to go to prison on the weekends; I think he lectured there-an outside lecturer. -- Ishmael Reed
I am a fellow commoner at Lucy Cavendish College. My husband used to be a lecturer at Leeds University, and we lived in Yorkshire for 11 years. When he gave up his job, we realised we could live wherever we liked. -- Sophie Hannah
As a brand new graduate student starting in October 1956, my supervisor Michail Fischberg, a lecturer in the Department of Zoology at Oxford, suggested that I should try to make somatic cell nuclear transplantation work in the South African frog Xenopus laevis. -- John Gurdon
According to my parents, I was supposed to have been a nice, churchgoing Swiss housewife. Instead I ended up an opinionated psychiatrist, author and lecturer in the American Southwest, who communicates with spirits from a world that I believe is far more loving and glorious than our own. -- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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
I'm fortunate in that I'm a lecturer too and this gets me out and about and away from the computer. I also have loads of friends all around the world, plus a core group of special people in my life that I can lean on, chat to, or just hang with. -- Paul Kane
A lecturer often makes you feel dumb at one end and numb at the other. -- Evan Esar
The lecturer who is full of his subject is usually very slow in emptying himself. -- Evan Esar
LECTURER, n. One with his hand in your pocket, his tongue in your ear and his faith in your patience. -- Ambrose Bierce
Lecture is the transfer of the notes of the lecturer to the notes of the student without passing through either. -- Eric Mazur
Whatever my passions demand of me, I become for the time being - musician, poet, director, author, lecturer or anything else. -- Richard Wagner
Education is not a product but a relationship and a process; a relationship between student and lecturer, and process by which knowledge transforms the individual. -- Kenan Malik
If a lecturer, he wishes to be heard; if a writer, to be read. He always hopes for a public beyond that of the long-suffering wife. -- Samuel Eliot Morison
If the room is friendly to a relationship between lecturer and audience, you feel everything - the tension, the appreciation. I think the audience feels it too. -- Frank Gehry
Every minister, lecturer and public speaker know the discouragement of pouring himself of herself out to an audience and not receiving a single ripple of appreciative comment. -- Dale Carnegie
Running overtime is the one unforgivable error a lecturer can make. After fifty minutes (one microcentury as von Neumann used to say) everybody's attention will turn elsewhere. -- Gian-Carlo Rota
The lecturer points to Dietrich Bonhoeffer's decision to get engaged while in prison as his "positive statement that life will go on," his affirmation of the power of love. -- J. Rufus Fears
What is desired is that the teacher ceased being a lecturer, satisfied with transmitting ready-made solutions. His role should rather be that of a mentor stimulating initiative and research. -- Jean Piaget
I saw Linus Pauling as a brilliant lecturer and a man with a fantastic memory, and a great, great showman. I think he was the century's greatest chemist. No doubt about it. -- Max Perutz
The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantelpiece forever. -- Virginia Woolf
[T]he most viciously intolerant campus I ever visited as a lecturer was Brown, where the humanities program has been gutted by a jejune brand of feminist theory and cultural and media studies. -- Camille Paglia

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