| "A well-known scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a public lecture on astronomy. He described how the earth orbits around the sun and how the sun, in turn, orbits around the center of a vast collection of stars called our galaxy. At the end of the lecture a little old lady at the back of the room got up and said 'What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise.' The scientist gave a superior smile before replying, 'What is the turtle standing on' 'You're very clever, young man, very clever,' said the little old lady. 'But it's turtles all the way down.'" »Stephen William Hawking |
| "He that knows himself, knows others and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads." »Charles Caleb Colton |
| "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 |
| "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." »Marcel Archard |
| "Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context -- a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan." »Eliel Saarinen |
| "In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing." »Antonio Porchia |
| "It doesn't make a difference what temperature a room is, it's always room temperature." »Steven Wright |
| "Most people tire of a lecture in 10 minutes clever people can do it in 5. Sensible people never go to lectures at all." »Stephen Butler Leacock |
| "Don't look now, but there's one too many in this room and I think it's you." »Julius Henry Marx |
| "A room without books is like a body without a soul." »Marcus Tullius Cicero |
| "The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace." »Nikita Khrushchev |
| "There are two types of people--those who come into a room and say, 'Well, here I am' and those who come in and say, 'Ah, there you are.'" »Frederick L Collins |
| "Bo There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water" »Signs |
| "If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room." »Anita Roddick |
| "You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions." »Senator Patrick Leahy |
| "Without the aid of prejudice and custom I should not be able to find my way across the room." »William Hazlitt |
| "Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth." »Muhammad Ali |
| "Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room." »Winston Churchill |
| "The service we render others is the rent we pay for our room on earth." »Sir Wilfred Grenfell |
| "When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room." »Woody Allen |
| "The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed." »Bennett Alfred Cerf |
| "He's the kind of a guy who lights up a room just by flicking a switch." »Unknown |
| "I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room." »Blaise Pascal |
| "Did you ever walk into a room and forget why you walked in I think that's how dogs spend their lives." »Sue Murphy |
| "The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout." »Alice Walker |
| "No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation." »Fran Lebowitz |
| "A prudent mind can see room for misgiving, lest he who prospers would one day suffer reverse." »Sophocles |
| "The television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home." »David Frost |
| "May your walls know joy May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility." »Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey |
| "I am a poet. I lock myself in my room with a type writer so I can talk in terms of the world that has put me here." »Eric Pio |
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