Speaker Quotes

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... semantics ... is a sober and modest discipline which has no pretensions of being a universal patent-medicine for all the ills and diseases of… — Alfred Tarski
Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all… — Tryon Edwards
The tendency is to blame boredom on the environment. "This town is really dull" or "What a boring speaker." The particular town or speaker is… — Wayne Dyer
Mr. Speaker, I agree with those who say that the Global War on Terrorism is actually a Global War of Ideas and that terrorism is… — Mac Thornberry
Dialogue has to show not only something about the speaker that is its own revelation, but also maybe something about the speaker that he doesn't… — Eudora Welty
In dialogue, make sure that your attributives do not awkwardly interrupt a spoken sentence. Place them where the breath would come naturally in speech-that is,… — Elwyn Brooks White
Speech is highly elliptical. It would scarcely be endurable otherwise. Ellipsis is indispensable to the writer or speaker who wants to be brief and pithy,… — Bergen Evans
The first picture of his I ever saw was during a lecture at the Rhyl camera club. I was 16 and the speaker was Emrys… — Philip Jones Griffiths
The statement "I am in pain" may be one piece of evidence for the conclusion that the speaker is in pain, but it is not… — Peter Singer
Why tell me that a man is a fine speaker, if it is not the truth that he is speaking? — Thomas Carlyle
I think the real, fundamental problem that the Republicans have is, 'How do we get meaner, how do we get nastier with immigrants, so that… — Luis Gutierrez
Lenin could listen so intently that he exhausted the speaker. — Isaiah Berlin
By a generative grammar I mean simply a system of rules that in some explicit and well-defined way assigns structural descriptions to sentences. Obviously, every… — Noam Chomsky
In my own time there have been inventions of this sort, transparent windows tubes for diffusing warmth equally through all parts of a building short-hand,… — Seneca the Younger
Both law and comedy are heavily focused on thought and viewing all angles. To write a good joke, you have to look at a premise… — Troy Walker
Be both a speaker of words and a doer of deeds. — Homer
Nothing is more dangerous in wartime than to live in the temperamental atmosphere of a Gallup Poll, always feeling ones pulse and taking ones temperature.… — Winston Churchill
I admired Hitler, for instance, because he came from being a little man with almost no formal education, up to power. I admire him for… — Arnold Schwarzenegger
I realized how Latina I was, and then also, at the same time, how not Latina enough I was, because Iâ€™m born and raised in… — America Ferrera
Speaker Boehner needs to understand the urgency for reform. Until the House passes a bill that includes a pathway to citizenship, we will continue to… — Eliseo Medina

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