I did a club one night - the speakers were old as hell. My jokes were coming out in black and white. — J. B. Smoove Copy Share Image
I haven't spoken English with native speakers in several months. I've been speaking Arabic. — John Walker Lindh Copy Share Image
When you can't get a miracle, you can still be a miracle for someone else. — Nick Vujicic Copy Share Image
Our public men are speaking every day on something, but they ain't saying anything. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
A bottomless pit of violence, a Tower of Babel where all are speakers and no hearers. — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
Speech belongs half to the speaker, half to the listener. The latter must prepare to receive it according to the motion it… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Conservative activists want [Stephen] Bannon, somebody who has spent much of the past two years trying to destroy speaker of the House,… — George Stephanopoulos Copy Share Image
Speaker [Paul] Ryan made clear that the Republican congress agrees with [Donald Trump], and [building a wall] that's something that should be… — Mark Halperin Copy Share Image
Mr. Speaker. I said the honorable member was a liar it is true and I am sorry for it. The honorable member… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
It's really beneath the office of a member of Congress to say something that outrageous. The fact that she was once the… — Trey Gowdy Copy Share Image
An effective speaker knows that the success or failure of his talk is not for him to decide - it will be… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
Words belong to nobody, and in themselves they evaluate nothing. But they can serve any speaker and be used for the most… — Mikhail Bakhtin Copy Share Image
Those of you who have spent time with Australians know that we are not given to overstatement. By nature we are laconic… — Julia Gillard Copy Share Image
Consider in Washington, around the country today we are talking about balanced budgets, paying down our national debt, getting the economy going,… — J. C. Watts Copy Share Image
Forget all the conventional 'rules' but one. There is one golden rule: Stick to topics you deeply care about and don't keep… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
The problems of society will also be the problems of the predominant language of that society. It is the carrier of its… — Njabulo S Ndebele Copy Share Image
Whenever I saw her, I felt like I had been living in another country, doing moderately well in another language, and then… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
An essential part of true listening is the discipline of bracketing, the temporary giving up or setting aside of one's own prejudices,… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
I haven't seen any claim that Piraha lacks recursion, that is, that there are a finite number of sentences or sentence frames.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
To preach the Gospel requires that the preacher should believe that he is sent to those whom he is addressing at the… — Roland Allen Copy Share Image
I think I'm comfortable making myself, or my speaker, larger than life if I can then cut myself off at the ankles.… — Randall Mann Copy Share Image
We need to review the process for the election of Speaker. We've got to reform Question Time, which is really a waste… — Richard Di Natale Copy Share Image
I mostly used the studio devices, because I knew what they had. Generally I find I'm happy to use whatever's around. If… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
The receipt to make a speaker, and an applauded one too, is short and easy. Take common sense quantum sufficit; add a… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Hitler's dictatorship differed in one fundamental point from all its predecessors in history. His was the first dictatorship in the present period… — Albert Speer Copy Share Image
The suicidally disgruntled were legion, And their enemies included any and all Americans, Brits, Canadians, Danes, et cetera; or, conversely, all Moslems,… — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
Most English speakers do not have the writer's short fuse about seeing or hearing their language brutalized. This is the main reason,… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
The first thing I did when I got inside was turn on the kitchen light. Then I moved to the table, putting… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
As medium for reaching understanding, speech acts serve: a) to establish and renew interpersonal relations, whereby the speaker takes up a relation… — Jurgen Habermas Copy Share Image