“I can read more languages than I speak! I speak French and Italian - not very well, alas, but I can get by. I read German and Spanish. I can read Latin (I did a lot of Latin at school.) I'm afraid I do not speak any African languages, although I can understand a little bit of the Zulu-related languages, but only a tiny bit.” WellsLittlesI CanSchoolSpeakLanguageBitsLittle BitTinyRelatedLatinItalianAlasI Can ReadSpeaks French Author:Alexander McCall Smith
“The largest fear in the world is to speak in public. We fear of stumbling, or public humiliation, and so we're fearing a face-to-face rejection. So, we'll say things in a text or e-mail that we would never say face-to-face. So, relationships are coming together faster and breaking apart faster, and they're a little bit more disposable.” WorldLittlesTogetherFacesSpeakBitsLittle BitFasterRejectionMailHumiliationFace To FaceStumblingComing TogetherDisposableBreaking Apart Author:Ashton Kutcher
“There is a real problem with the lack of diversity, specifically in genre films and the superheroes our kids grow up watching and emulating, they can't really identify with. When you see the same thing, over and over again, and it seems not to speak of you and your heritage and your culture, it leaves you out of this world, a little bit. It gives a certain social distance with your world.” WorldGivingLittlesRealProblemSeemsKidsFilmCertainCultureSpeakSocialGrowsBitsGrowing UpThis WorldDiversityLittle BitDistanceGenreHeritageSuperheroReal Problems Author:Djimon Hounsou
“Most of the drug CEOs I know, they're not themselves - they're what people want them to be. It's pretty obvious of the different drug executives. They're old white men, very buttoned up. They're appropriate, so to speak. I'm a little bit more irreverent, and I'm not going to change just because I have this job.” PeopleKnowsMenWantLittlesDifferentJobsSpeakBitsWhiteDrugLittle BitObviousAppropriateExecutivesCeoWhite ManIrreverent Author:Martin Shkreli
“At times of crisis or distress, it's poems that people turn to. (Poetry) still has a power to speak to people's feelings, maybe in a way that fiction, because it works in a longer way, can't. There's a little bit of your brain that mourns and grieves that you're not writing poetry, but actually as long as I'm writing something, I'm happy.” PeopleWayWritingLittlesLongStillsFeelingsTurnsSpeakBitsBrainFictionLittle BitCrisisGrievingDistressMournWriting PoetryTimes Of Crisis Author:Blake Morrison
“In the Jewish tradition of the Bible it says, "Speak to her softly, so that she will want to engage in sexual activity." In today's world, there's a little bit of a danger in that people don't really talk to each other. You see couples walking in the street, each one of them texting someone else. That worries me.” PeopleWorldWantLittlesTodaySpeakBitsWorryStreetsDangerCoupleWalkingActivityLittle BitTraditionTextingToday's WorldJewish Tradition Author:Ruth Westheimer
“When I write, I speak with ghosts for years, and I see images that are a little bit out of focus. I see faces, but the faces change. At the moment that it's a real human being that's flesh and bone, it changes a character. It's much more precise and complex.” WritingYearsHumansLittlesRealMomentsCharacterFacesSpeakBitsHuman BeingsFocusLittle BitComplexesBonesFleshGhostPreciseReal Human Author:Jaco Van Dormael
“We all think were going to be great and we feel a little bit robbed when our expectation aren't met, but sometimes our expectations sell us short. Sometimes the expected simply pales in comparison to the Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow.” ThinkingFeelsWritingLittlesSometimesSpeakGrowsBitsHeardMetsLittle BitExpectationsUnderstoodSellsExpectedComparisonPale Author:Lawrence Clark Powell
“I will not speak to Vladimir Putin personally until we've rebuilt the 6th Fleet a little bit right under his nose; rebuilt the missile defense program in Poland right under his nose; and conducted a few military exercises in the Baltic states.” LittlesStatesSpeakBitsMilitaryExerciseLittle BitProgramDefenseNosesPutinMissilesPolandMissile Defense Author:Carly Fiorina
“I'm quite shocked and have been for quite a while as for the way people are treating each other. That's why I go out and I speak for the hungry, and if I see somebody needs a hug during the day, I'll go and give them a hug, and I think we should all use a little bit more of that.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayNeedsGivingShouldLittlesHas BeensUseSpeakBitsLittle BitHungryHugShocked Author:Kelly LeBrock
“Let's say [Warren Beatty] wants you to speak louder in a scene. He won't stop playing the role and say to you as a director, "Will you speak louder on the next take?" He'll say it as Howard Hughes: "I can't totally hear you. Why don't you speak up a little bit?" To kind of keep this rhythm going.” WantKindLittlesI CanNextSpeakBitsRolesSceneDirectorsLittle BitRhythmBeatty Author:Alden Ehrenreich
“Myself and Yorgos Lanthimos, we spoke a little bit and I was at a certain body weight that I was closer to making a statement or defining the character physically by losing weight. There was no justification for him to be emaciated, but I thought, say I was 165, I thought what if I went down to 155 and have him rail-thin? And Yorgos was like, "Well, if he's very thin I think maybe it will speak to some kind of psychological trouble that we want to stay away from," and I was like, "F - -, you're right."” IfsThinkingWantWellsKindLittlesCharacterBodyCertainSpeakBitsTroubleLittle BitLosingWeightStatementsPsychologicalSpokesWhat IfJustificationDefiningRailBody Weight Author:Colin Farrell
“It would be so irresponsible not to speak up. I don't know what I would do in my home and in my life if I didn't rant a little bit and as thoughtfully as I can with some humor.” IfsKnowsLittlesI CanHomeWould BeSpeakBitsLittle BitIrresponsibleRant Author:Judd Apatow
“One thing I do is (and I realize this might sound nuts), every month or so, I try to take like an Etch-a-sketch [so to speak], and I clear my faith. I go to zero, clear the deck. And I start adding things back to my faith, one at a time. What would be the first thing I'd add back? Jesus. It sounds a little bit like a Sunday school answer, but that's what I do. Then what's the next thing? And I'd say, well, loving people. And then the next.” PeopleTryingFirstsWellsLittlesMightWould BeSchoolNextJesusSpeakBitsSoundRealizingAnswersClearOne ThingMonthsLittle BitAddSundayZeroNutsDeckSunday SchoolEtch A Sketch Author:Bob Goff