“Native speakers of a language know intuitively whether a sentence is grammatical or not. They usually cannot specify exactly what is wrong, and very possibly they make the same mistakes in their own speech, but they know-unconsciously, not as a set of rules they learned in school-when a sentence is incorrect.” KnowsSchoolLanguageMistakeSpeechSentencesNativeSpeakersGrammarSame Mistakes Book:Word Play: What Happens When People Talk Source: Word Play: What Happens When People Talk
“A lot of men who have accepted - or had imposed upon them in boyhood - the old English public school styles of careful modesty in speech, with much understatement, have behind their masks an appalling and impregnable conceit of themselves.” MenSchoolBehindsStyleSpeechCarefulAcceptedMaskModestyPublic SchoolConceitBoyhoodUnderstatementOld English Author:J. B. Priestley
“And thou, who didst the stars and sunbeams know, Self-school'd, self-scann'd, self-honour'd, self-secure, Didst tread on earth unguess'd at. Better so! All pains the immortal spirit must endure, All weakness which impairs, all griefs which bow, Find their sole speech in that victorious brow.” KnowsSelfSchoolEarthPainSpiritStarsGriefSpeechWeaknessEndureSecureImmortalHonourBowsSoleBrowsSunbeams Book:Selected Poems of Matthew Arnold Source: Selected Poems of Matthew Arnold
“We are now considering legislation based on statistics that include name-calling at public rallies as crimes. Are we going on to the school yards of this country and when two kids get angry with each other and call each other names -- what are we going to do, cart them over to the reformatory or add them to the list of 'hate crimes' perpetrators? This is ridiculous.” TwoCountryKidsSchoolHateNamesCrimeCallingSpeechAngryAddCorruptionListsRidiculousDeceptionStatisticsConsideringYardsLegislationHate CrimeCartsPerpetratorsName Calling Author:Jesse Helms
“Unlike conventional jocks, who tend to sell aluminum siding and give canned speeches to parochial-school athletic banquets in the off-season, race drivers never shuck their image when they leave the stadium. They are supposed to be zany, nomadic soldiers of fortune who are involved in wild endeavors during every waking moment.” GivingMomentsSchoolRaceInvolvedSpeechSeasonsSellsFortuneSoldierSupposed To BeDriversEndeavorWakingConventionalAthleticStadiumsBanquetsJocksNomadicAluminumOff SeasonSiding Author:Brock Yates
“I don't think RADA wanted me, actually. When I was at Oxford I had a boyfriend at Central [School of Speech and Drama] and it looked like the most fantastic life, but I think not going makes you more free. Nothing can teach you what it's like to work on a film set, and the best education there can be for an actor is to walk up the street and observe human nature.” ThinkingHumansWantedSchoolFilmActorsWalksTeachStreetsHuman NatureDramaSpeechFantasticOxfordFilm SetBest EducationFantastic Life Author:Rosamund Pike
“I contracted malaria in rural Mozambique. I was a youth ambassador for Australia. For a year after high school, you give positive speeches about Australia and as part of it I traveled to lots of different countries.” GivingYearsDifferentCountrySchoolYouthSpeechHigh SchoolAustraliaTraveledAmbassadorsDifferent CountriesMalariaAfter High SchoolMozambique Author:Rebel Wilson
“I did dancing and singing when I was little, and then when I was 12 years old my friends were taking speech and drama at school. They were private lessons, and I started doing that. Over the years everyone else dropped out and I just kept going. I loved it.” YearsLittlesSchoolDramaLessonsSpeechSingingMy FriendsDancing Author:Bella Heathcote