Speaking Quotes
1939 Speaking quotes by 1471 unique authors
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If I said in one of my songs that my English teacher wanted to have sex with me in junior high, all I'm saying, is…
— Eminem
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To me, celebrity doesn't mean a whole lot unless you're willing to use it. So I wanted to use it in a different way, with…
— Judith Light
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Strictly speaking, there are no real substitutes for sexual satisfaction
— Dashiell Hammett
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We do God’s work for our brothers and sisters when we learn to listen to them. So often Christians, especially preachers, think that their only…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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When you read the Bible, you must think that here and now, God is speaking with me
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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One of the reasons I came to Berkeley was because I saw so many students of all different colors speaking so many different languages and…
— June Jordan
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Historically speaking, we went from being Indians to pagans to savages to hostiles to militants to activists to Native Americans. Its five hundred years later…
— John Trudell
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In spite of our sinfulness, in spite of the darkness surrounding our souls, the Grace of the Holy Spirit, conferred by baptism in the name…
— Seraphim of Sarov
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Remember, there are two things that keep us oppressed: them and us. We are half of the equation. There will not be a magic day…
— Tammy Baldwin
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When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly, I think any fool can make a rule, and every…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply. They're either speaking or preparing to speak. They're…
— Stephen Covey
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Speaking of New York as a traveller I have two faults to find with it. In the first place there is nothing to see; and…
— Anthony Trollope
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The devil take these people and their language! They take a dozen monosyllabic words in their jaws, chew them, crunch them and spit them out…
— Heinrich Heine
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I am speaking to those among you who have retained some sovereign shred of their soul, unsold and unstamped: '- to the order of others'.…
— Ayn Rand
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You do not characterize by telling the reader about the character. You do it by showing the character thinking, speaking and acting in a characteristic…
— Gene Wolfe
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Fervor is a fire that makes things boil and grow hot, just as fire causes water to boil. It is, properly speaking, charity on fire,…
— St. Vincent
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Truthfully, I've never seen myself as being too thin. Sometimes I'll look at photos and be like, 'Oh, that's not a good look.' But generally…
— Rachel Zoe
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It has been demonstrated that a species of penicillium produces in culture a very powerful antibacterial substance which affects different bacteria in different degrees. Generally…
— Alexander Fleming
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Public Speaking is a skill that can be studied, polished, perfected. Not only can you get good at it, you can get damn good at…
— Tom Peters
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We have to do away with a false and misleading dualism, one which abstracts man on the one hand and technology on the other, as…
— Unknown Author
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