Speaking Quotes

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The Angel ended, and in Adam's ear So charming left his voice, that he awhile Thought him still speaking, still stood fix'd to hear. — John Milton
For a male and female to live continuously together is biologically speaking, an extremely unnatural condition. — Robert Briffault
What is education? Properly speaking, there is no such thing as education. Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
By speaking of greater forces than we can possibly invoke, and by confronting us with greater spans of time than we can possibly envisage, mountains… — Robert Macfarlane
Write plays that matter. Raise the stakes. Shout, yell, holler, but make yourself heard. It's time for playwrights to reclaim the theatre. We do that… — Terrence McNally
I very much write from characters. Those people start speaking, and then I have them in the house with me and I live with them.… — Wendy Wasserstein
Regarding pushing the form, ideas interest me more than form. I think you can write a very subversive play in a three-act structure. The content… — Caridad Svich
I've never written a fiction before about real people. . . . I read everything that I could find by people who met them and… — Michael Frayn
What you are saying is true of those who want everything to give way to them, nothing to oppose them, everything to go their way,… — Vincent de Paul
Although this may seem a paradox, all exact science is based on the idea of approximation. If a man tells you he knows a thing… — Bertrand Russell
Oh, God. The Sixties are coming back. Well I've got a 12-gauge double-barreled duck gun chambered for three-inch Magnum shells. And - speaking strictly for… — P.J. O'Rourke
It is a good and safe rule to sojourn in every place as if you meant to spend your life there, never omitting an opportunity… — John Ruskin
Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world. — Melinda Gates
If, on the other hand, we wish to describe a particular phenomenon without repressing our direct experience, then we cannot avoid speaking of the phenomenon… — David Abram
Strictly speaking, my interest is not in legal rights for animals but in a change of heart towards animals. — J M Coetzee
I consider it important, indeed urgently necessary, for intellectual workers to get together, both to protect their own economic status and, also, generally speaking, to… — Albert Einstein
Ah, the first rule of public speaking -- always start with a joke. — Jon Stewart
I never found it frustrating not speaking. — David Selby
I don't know why men are so fascinated with television and I think it has something to do with - if I may judge from… — Garry Shandling
I hope the English-speaking world can see that I'm not only an Israeli actress. — Hani Furstenberg
Evolutionarily speaking, there is seldom any mystery in why we seek the goals we seek — why, for example, people would rather make love with… — Steven Pinker
China approaches fashion with strong enthusiasm. And I believe that this enthusiasm can be translated into something interesting, economically speaking. Not only for my brand,… — Giorgio Armani
Speaking uses us up, speeds us up. Without prayer, that act of confession for merely existing, one might live forever and not know it. — Gregory Maguire
Practice writing and speaking about what you do. — Sanford Biggers
Comedians and Feminists are natural enemies. Because stereotypically speaking, feminists can't take a joke and comedians can't take criticism. — Louis C. K.

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