A Quote by Maureen Johnson

Lecturing Brooks was as useful as lecturing a cat.

Maureen Johnson

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Maureen Johnson
American - Author
Born: February 16, 1973

I like dialogue in novels. I wanted to avoid laying history on with a trowel - appearing to be lecturing, as opposed to the characters lecturing their children or students. Dialogue can humanise the story and make it go down somewhat more smoothly.

Elliot Perlman

I've found that no one complains about pop culture being a source of someone lecturing to them. If someone's telling you about Kim Kardashian, you're not going to accuse them of lecturing to you. If I can explore an intersection between pop culture and science literacy, then it generally will not come across as a lecture.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Don't come lecturing us about liberty. You need a reality check. Don't act like a spoiled rude child. Here you will only find dignity and sovereignty. Here we haven't invaded anyone. Here we don't torture like in Guantanamo. Here we don't have drones killing alleged terrorist without any due trial, killing also the women and children of those supposed terrorists. So don't come lecturing us about life, law, dignity, or liberty. You don't have the moral right to do so.

Rafael Correa

I never want to tell a story where I'm lecturing to the audience.

Lulu Wang

I have always hated celebrities lecturing people on politics.

Simon Cowell

You cannot, by all the lecturing in the world, enable a man to make a shoe.

Samuel Johnson

When you're lecturing teenagers and they begin to hum and leave the room, you can sense there is hostility.

Erma Bombeck

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

Jane Velez-Mitchell

Teaching physics at the University, and more general lecturing to wider audiences has been a major concern.

Antony Hewish

I don't believe in lecturing people. It's much more effective to present reading as a fun, rewarding pastime.

James Patterson

One of the things that I discovered in lecturing was that gradually one ceased to hear what one said one heard what the audience hears one say.

Gertrude Stein

What's obvious is that the U.S. has a very imperfect system, and yet its leaders are obsessed with lecturing the rest of the world on how to organise their affairs.

Margarita Simonyan

If we can get kids talking about conservation and doing it, they can have a great influence on their parents by lecturing them and pointing the finger.

Kevin Richardson

The United States in particular and the West in general should be feeling a little embarrassed about all that lecturing we did to the Third World.

Paul Krugman

No, I've never had any interest in coaching, probably because I hated being told what to do when I was a player so I wouldn't like to be lecturing others now.

Matt Le Tissier

I do a lot of lecturing, at colleges and police schools, and I always get the same questions: 'Do they really kill you? What do they do with the money? How do you become a wiseguy?'

Joseph D. Pistone

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