Lecture Quotes - page 5
I now receive inquiries of interest for deanships and departmental chairs several times a year. I find myself on committees where I am the only woman and there is one black man. We two tokens greet each other wryly. I am frequently invited to lecture at architecture schools, ‘to be a role model for our girls.' I am happy to do this for their young women but I would rather be asked purely because my work is interesting.
Denise Scott Brown
This evening the Anthroposophical Society invited me to give a lecture about modern art, on 13 March. They start to wake up here [in the Netherlands]... Please, tell me something, what I should emphasize, what you find most important. I shall also read something from 'The Spiritual in Art' by Kandinsky... But we still have other views on the whole, isn't it. I don't always agree with Kandinsky, and often more with your views. So please write a little much... You know, for me it is always easier to paint my principles.
Jacoba van Heemskerck
There were two times in my life that inspired me the most. The first was when I was a kid, probably the most emotionally influential time, when you're naïve and innocent. I went to movie theaters and fell in love with genre films in the 1950s, when there was a big wave of monster movies. My passion came from the young guy who was watching The Fly back in 1958. Then, going to USC I began to watch movies in a different way and was exposed to different kinds of movies, foreign films. We had directors like Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, Howard Hawks and John Ford come down and lecture us. It was unbelievable!
John Carpenter
(The Queen of Housewife Rock) means I've reached a lot of people in a simplistic manner who would never go to a lecture or read an article on Women's Lib. My basic audience is women who have had their heads turned around by the knowledge that something's going on out there-that they can stay married and have their own identities. I'm not for the swinging singles. I have a career and marriage happening all at the same time, and that's the example I set.
Helen Reddy
The key intellectual event is a lecture or a formal debate, a period of time when one individual holds the floor to deliver a sustained argument on a particular topic. This is different from the give-and-take of sociable conversations, which typically cannot reach any complex or abstract level because the focus shifts too often. Intellectuals giving their attention for half an hour or more to one viewpoint, developed as a unified stream of discourse, are thereby elevating the topic into a larger, more encompassing sacred object than the little fragmentary tokens of ordinary sociable ties.
Randall Collins
Facebook was founded on February 4, 2004. On February 5, we were feeling pretty confident, even from observing the first few hours of usage. Students used it like crazy. They'd sign up then spend the next 3-4 hours on it. Then we'd go to lecture hall and see it on every computer screen there.
Dustin Moskovitz
