For a lot of people, when something happens that gives them 15 minutes of fame, they try to create something new out… — Judson Laipply Copy Share Image
If they can get 15 or higher, it will be a very bad night for House Speaker Paul Ryan. Ryan twisted himself… — Mara Liasson Copy Share Image
By a generative grammar I mean simply a system of rules that in some explicit and well-defined way assigns structural descriptions to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If you don't uphold your legal responsibility to enforce the First Amendment, to provide speakers with platforms and audiences with safe, the… — Milo Yiannopoulos Copy Share Image
Quite often in history action has been the echo of words. An era of talk was followed by an era of events.… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
In 1986, our commencement speaker was George Schultz, secretary of state, fourth in line to the president. You get me-basic cable's second… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
It has become increasingly clear that Hungarian authorities are encouraging the whitewashing of tragic and criminal episodes in Hungary's past, namely the… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
When I wrote my first book, Crisis Management: Planning for the Inevitable, it was endorsed by the American Management Association, and consequently… — Steven Fink Copy Share Image
I come to this debate, Mr. Speaker, as one at the end of 10 years in office on the Permanent Select Committee… — Nancy Pelosi Copy Share Image
For me any moment in front of a crowd is embarrassing, because I can't stand being in front of people. I'm probably… — Christian Bale Copy Share Image
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I learn immediately from any speaker how much he has already lived, through the poverty or the splendor of his speech. Life… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
God, I want to give You every minute of this year. I shall try to keep You in mind every moment of… — Frank Laubach Copy Share Image
When I'm listening to stuff on the computer or through a horrible little speaker on my phone, and then I hear the… — Kevin Shields Copy Share Image
... ideals, standards, aspirations,--those are chameleon words, and take color from their speakers,--often false tints. A scholarly man of my acquaintance once… — Carolyn Wells Copy Share Image
Of means of persuading by speaking there are three species: some consist in the character of the speaker; others in the disposing… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
From a very early age, I was in tune with pop radio, and most of this listening was done driving. We had… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
What I see here, what I feel here is that people in your world believe spirituality isn't distant. It's close and real.… — Barbara Cameron Copy Share Image
Whether youre president or speaker, if youre wrong, we need to stand up and point it out. Thats what Martin Luther King… — Louie Gohmert Copy Share Image
As the chief speaker at the dedication of the national cemetery at the Gettysburg Battlefield, statesman Edward Everett wrote to Lincoln: I… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
He did it (listened) as the world's most charming and magnetic people do, always asking the right question at the right time,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Jim Rohn is the master motivator - he has style, substance, charisma, relevance, charm, and what he says makes a difference and… — Mark Victor Hansen Copy Share Image
Well, it looks like John Boehner will be the new Speaker of the House. He is the son of a bartender, one… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
If you want to catch the right mental attitude, go where that attitude exists. Start by going to the people who have… — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
I think this was as good a Democratic Convention [ this was my 24th convention] as I have seen since the 1976… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
The composer must bear in mind that the radio listener does not hear music directly. He hears it only after the sound… — Raymond Scott Copy Share Image
The dictionary has been in the making for several decades, and the result is well worth the wait. MacLean and those who… — Lawrence Kaplan Copy Share Image
Speakers' nerves affect them in various ways. Some tremble, some become frenzied. I lose all confidence, and suffer from a leaden oppression… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Semantics is about the relation of words to thoughts, but it also about the relation of words to other human concerns. Semantics… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The only thing I heard Speaker [Paul] Ryan say that made sense was, we actually really need to look at this and… — John Yarmuth Copy Share Image
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Conferences are really like parties, and an A-list party is one where A-list people are in attendance. You figure out who are… — Tim O'Reilly Copy Share Image
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Democratic Rep. Charles Schumer of New York made a plea to Livingston, the incoming speaker. These new hearings, these new subpoenas wave… — Charles Schumer Copy Share Image
Context is everything. Dress me up and see. I'm a carnival barker, an auctioneer, a downtown performance artist, a speaker in tongues,… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
My first love is my mother. She did so much for us as children as a single parent. I watched her make… — Betty Wright Copy Share Image
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Colleges have a twofold duty when it comes to dealing with censorship. First, there is the duty to not censor the free… — Greg Lukianoff Copy Share Image
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