“Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and the plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the footlights and fall with a bang if you miss them. But when dear Sebastian speaks it is like a little sphere of soapsud drifting off the end of an old clay pipe, anywhere, full of rainbow light for a second and then - phut! vanished, with nothing left at all, nothing.” IfsShouldLittlesEndsLightFallLeftSpeakMissingObjectsConversationBallsDearSpheresPlatesRainbowClayBangsPipeGlitterDriftingJugglingDrifting Off Author:Evelyn Waugh
“In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted to carry weapons, to swat an insect or speak an angry word, a discipline that introduced them to a new way of living.” WayKindMomentsHomeLeftSpeakCitiesViolenceDisciplineHolyWeaponsAngryNew WaysForbiddenInsectsPilgrimMeccaAngry Words Author:Karen Armstrong
“Did you hear the one about the woman who is attacked on the street by a gorilla, beaten senseless, raped repeatedly, and left to die? When she finally regains consciousness and tries to speak, her doctor leans over to hear her sigh contently and to feebly ask, 'Where is that marvelous ape?'” TryingDiesAsksLeftSpeakConsciousnessStreetsDoctorsMarvelousBeatenSighApesGorillas Author:John McCain
“Nor is a day lived if the dawn is left out of it, with the prospects it opens. Who speaks charmingly of nature or of mankind, like him who comes bibulous of sunrise and the fountains of waters?” IfsLeftSpeakWaterMorningMankindDawnSunriseFountainProspectsLeft Out Book:Tablets Source: Tablets
“... love dreads being isolated, being left to speak in a void -- at the beginning it would often rather listen than speak.” LeftSpeakVoidIsolatedDread Book:The Heat of the Day Source: The Heat of the Day
“A part of all art is to make silence speak. The things left out in painting, the note withheld in music, the void in architecture - all are as necessary and as active as the utterance itself.” ArtLeftSpeakSilencePaintingArt IsNotesActiveArchitectureVoidUtteranceLeft OutSilence Speaks Book:the zodiac arch Source: the zodiac arch
“Artists will sometimes speak of Rome with disparagement or indifference while it is before them; but no artist ewer lived in Rome and then left it, without sighing to return.” ArtSometimesArtistLeftSpeakReturnIndifferenceRome Book:Six Months in Italy Source: Six Months in Italy
“How blind to believe the civil rights movement ever ended. The civil rights movement never ends, and it never will. It has been marching since the beginning of time. Where Martin Luther King started is where Gandhi left off, and where he started, Abe Lincoln left off, and before that Whitfield all the way back to Moses. God has not moved. We have. But it is never too late. We are not at the mercy of these events. We can alter the course of history. We can stand against the dangerous arc of this story. But we need people who are willing to speak truth.” PeopleWayNeedsBelieveHas BeensEndsStoriesCoursesLeftSpeakRightsDangerousEventsMovementWillingKingsLateMercyBlindMovedCivil RightsToo LateLutherMosesCivil Rights MovementSpeak The TruthArcsNever Too LateAbe Author:Glenn Beck
“Although I feel very French, a part of my heart is in the States. When my brother and I arrived, we didnt really speak any English, and when we left, thats all we spoke when we played together. It was just a beautiful place to grow up.” FeelsHeartStatesTogetherBeautifulLeftSpeakGrowsGrowing UpBrotherMy HeartMy BrotherSpokesBeautiful Places Author:Delphine Arnault
“The gym teacher's name was Mr. Caruso. Mr. Caruso did not speak English. He spoke 'Gym.' One day I was playing basketball and Mr. Caruso told me I would have to get an athletic supporter. He didn't express himself exactly that way, though. He said, 'Hey, you, one day you're gonna go up for a rebound and the family jewels aren't gonna go with ya.' I had no idea what he was talking about. Next day I showed up for practice without my watch and my mezuzah. He said, 'Did ya take care of the family jewels?' I said, 'I left 'em in my locker.' Took us a half hour to revive Mr. Caruso.” WaySaidIdeasCareNextNamesLeftSpeakHoursHalfTalkingWatchesPracticeTeacherOne DayBasketballTake CareHeyNo IdeaEmsSpokesGymSupporterNext DayJewelsAthleticHalf HoursReviveLockersHey YouSpeak EnglishReboundPlaying BasketballGym Teacher Author:Tommy Lasorda
“We are so placid that the smallest tremor of objection to anything at all is taken as a full-scale revolution. Should any soul speak up in favor of the obvious, it is taken as a symptom of the influence of the left, the right, the pink, the black, the dangerous. An idea for its own sake - especially an obvious idea - has no respectability.” ShouldIdeasSoulLeftSpeakBlackTakenInfluenceDangerousRevolutionSakeObviousFavorsScalesSmallestSymptomsObjectionsRespectabilityPlacid Book:Art & ardor: essays Source: Art & ardor: essays
“She speaks poniards, and every word stabs: if her breath were as terrible as her terminations, there were no living near her; she would infect to the north star. I would not marry her, though she were endowed with all that Adam bad left him before he transgressed.” IfsLeftSpeakStarsTerribleAngerBreathsAdamTerminationNorth Star Author:William Shakespeare