Speakers Quotes

370 Speakers quotes by 306 unique authors

Until I am free to write bilingually and to switch codes without having always to translate, while I still have to speak English or Spanish… — Gloria E. AnzaldÃºa
Order and disorder', said the speaker, 'they each have their beauty. — Orson Scott Card
Anyway, it's like with bikes,' said the first speaker authoritatively. 'I thought I was going to get this bike with seven gears and one of… — Terry Pratchett
All it takes,” said Crake, “is the elimination of one generation. One generation of anything. Beetles, trees, microbes, scientists, speakers of French, whatever. Break the… — Margaret Atwood
What would it mean in practice to eliminate all the 'negative people' from one's life [as demanded by motivational speaker J.P. Maroney]? It might be… — Barbara Ehrenreich
Prescriptive grammar has spread linguistic insecurity like a plague among English speakers for centuries, numbs us to the aesthetic richness of non-standard speech, and distracts… — John H. McWhorter
I don't understand why people never say what they mean. It's like the immigrants who come to a country and learn the language but are… — Jodi Picoult
It is like sitting in a traffic jam on the San Diego Freeway with your windows rolled up and Portuguese music booming out of the… — Hunter S. Thompson
...my little blurb wasn't going to win me any speaker-of-the-year awards, but at least I hadn't tripped and fallen off the stage, crushing and killing… — Jordan Sonnenblick
No speech is ever considered, but only the speaker. It's so much easier to pass judgement on a man than on an idea. — Ayn Rand
Hey," said Jace. who was sitting on an overturned speaker, looking at his cellphone, "do you want to see a photo of Alec and Magnus… — Cassandra Clare
The first thing I did when I got inside was turn on the kitchen light. Then I moved to the table, putting my dad's iPod… — Sarah Dessen
This is the Speaker for the Dead? Judging someone by appearances?" "Maybe I've fallen in love with Grego." "You've always been a sucker for people… — Orson Scott Card
Lips to lips, mouth to mouth, Comes the speaker of the shrouds, Suck in the spirit, speak the words, Let secrets of the dead be… — Yasmine Galenorn
Chin held high, Miss Ohio beamed at an imagined crowd. "I want to be a motivational speaker." "What are you going to motivate people to… — Libba Bray
Caught in a bad romance. Whoaaa-oh-ooooh!" Nellie wailed along to the XM radio blaring from the enormous speakers. "Can I uncover my ears now?" Dan… — Rick Riordan
...the problem with words is that once spoken, they cannot find their way back to the speaker alone. — Arturo PÃ©rez-Reverte
Is there anything in the world better than words on the page? Magic signs, the voices of the dead, building blocks to make wonderful worlds… — Cornelia Funke
WARNING: The following is a transcript of a digital recording. In certain places, the audio quality was poor, so some words and phrases represent the… — Rick Riordan
It is true that words have power, and one of the things they are able to do is get out of someone’s mouth before the… — Terry Pratchett
Nothing, however, can be more arrogant, though nothing is commoner than to assume that of Gods there is only one, and of religions none but… — Virginia Woolf
He did it (listened) as the world's most charming and magnetic people do, always asking the right question at the right time, never fidgeting or… — Stephen King
A desire for privacy does not imply shameful secrets; Moglen argues, again and again, that without anonymity in discourse, free speech is impossible, and hence… — Nick Harkaway
That single thought is enough. The impulse increases to a wish, the wish to a desire, the desire to an uncontrollable longing, and the longing… — Edgar Allan Poe
Truth is dangerous. It topples palaces and kills kings. It stirs gentle men to rage and bids them take up arms. It wakes old grievances… — Frances Hardinge

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