As quiet as I am I find it amazing I can stand in front of hundreds of people now and make a… — Jennifer Yuh Nelson Copy Share Image
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In memoir, can you really tell the truth about yourself? You're not going to write about your little peccadilloes, like, "I like… — Scott McClanahan Copy Share Image
By limiting or denying freedom of speech and expression, we take away a lot of potential. We take away thoughts and ideas… — Jill McCorkle Copy Share Image
It's like having a conversation. Doing beatbox for me is as natural as talking is for someone else. Sending sound through a… — Doug E. Fresh Copy Share Image
We cannot describe the natural history of the soul, but we know that it is divine. All things are known to the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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I would rather sit next to a transgender person and discuss why every single one I've met smells like a bar in… — Chelsea Handler Copy Share Image
I kept my speeches short as captain. I focused on the key points of the opposition of the day. As coach, I… — Franz Beckenbauer Copy Share Image
“Like the tightly closed eyelids of a child trying to escape the reprimand of a parent, there is a part of the… — Darren Main Copy Share Image
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The endless cycle of idea and action, / Endless invention, endless experiment, / Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness; /… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
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I aspire to make a record that sounds better 10 listens in than it does after two, and still, at 50 listens,… — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
“Remember that, as the receiver is as bad as the thief, so the hearer of scandal is a sharer in the guilt… — Charles H. Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“The famous speech Martin Luther King Jr. delivered on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963, included the sentence:… — Tammy Bruce Copy Share Image
Right before I decided to come out, I went on a spiritual retreat called 'Changing the Inner Dialogue of Your Subconscious Mind.'… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
After a time I found that I could almost listen to the silence, which had a dimension all of its own. I… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
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“As a rule, however fine and deep a phrase may be, it only affects the indifferent, and cannot fully satisfy those who… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
The most important thing for our species is, before it speaks, to listen to its environment. That has a higher priority in… — Gordon Hempton Copy Share Image
Men live in a community in virtue of the things which they have in common; and communication is the way in which… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
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Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz isn't methodical,… — Nat Wolff Copy Share Image
Statistics are the lifeblood of baseball. In no other sport are so many available and studied so assiduously by participants and fans.… — Leonard Koppett Copy Share Image
If you think that the gospel is all about what we can do, that the practice of it is optional, and that… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
In a healthy relationship... Communication plays a big role in it. Filling the cup as one makes it work. Sharing and understanding… — Rizzi Vicci Copy Share Image
It is hard to communicate understanding because that is something you get by living with a problem for a long time. You… — Michael Atiyah Copy Share Image
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President Obama gave a speech about healthcare tonight, and yesterday he gave a pep talk to students. He told them that in… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
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I'm a very bad impersonator so I can't even remember if I've ever done a sports person. I mean, I think I… — Will Forte Copy Share Image
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The aim is not to give human beings real goals that warrant belief, and tasks to share in, but to re-establish "belonging,"… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
Poetry comes to me out of thin air or out of my unconscious mind. It's sort of the way dreams come to… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
DIGESTION, n. The conversion of victuals into virtues. When the process is imperfect, vices are evolved instead - a circumstance from which… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
You listen to people so that you can imagine them, and you hear all the terrible and wonderful things people do to… — John Green Copy Share Image
Comics deal with two fundamental communicating devices: words and images. Admittedly this is an arbitrary separation. But, since in the modern world… — Will Eisner Copy Share Image
