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“Because, as we are told—a sad old joke, too— Ghosts, like the ladies, never speak till spoke to.”

“One learned gentleman, "a sage grave man," Talk'd of the Ghost in Hamlet, "sheath'd in steel"— His well-read friend, who next to speak began, Said, "That was poetry, and nothing real;" A third, of more extensive learning, ran To Sir George Villiers' Ghost, and Mrs. Veal; Of sheeted Spectres spoke with shorten'd breath, And thrice he quoted Drelincourt on Death.”

Men Wells Said Real Next Speak Thirds Breaths Graves Ghost Ran Gentleman Spokes Steel Sage Thrice Spectre

Author:Bill Vaughan

“Can the cannibal speak in the name of those he ate?”

Names Speak Communication Cannibal

Author:Bill Vaughan

“You cannot speak of the ocean to a frog that lives in a well.”

Wells Speak Understanding Ocean Frogs Home Improvement

Author:Bill Vaughan

“Step back in time; look closely at the child in the very arms of his mother; see the external world reflected for the first time in the yet unclear mirror of his understanding; study the first examples which strike his eyes; listen to the first words which arouse within him the slumbering power of thought; watch the first struggles which he has to undergo; only then will you comprehend the source of his prejudices, the habits, and the passions which are to rule his life. The entire man, so to speak, comes fully formed in the wrappings of his cradle.”

“Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee; it springs out of the most retired and inmost parts of us, and is the image of the parent of it, the mind. No glass renders a man's form or likeness so true as his speech.”

Men Mind May Shows Form Speak Language Parent Speech Spring Glasses Thee Retired

Book:Ben Jonson

Source: Ben Jonson

“The present system of taking oaths is horrible. It is awfully absurd to make a man invoke God's wrath upon himself, if he speaks false; it is, in my judgment, a sin to do so.”

Ifs Men Speak Sin Judgment Horrible Absurd Wrath Oath Invoke

Book:Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Source: Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Nature speaks in symbols and in signs.”

Speak Symbols

Book:The complete poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier

Source: The complete poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier

“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.”

Ifs Should Littles Ends Light Fall Left Speak Missing Objects Conversation Balls Dear Spheres Plates Rainbow Clay Bangs Pipe Glitter Drifting Juggling Drifting Off

Author:Evelyn Waugh

“We speak with pride and admiration of that little band of Americans who overcame insuperable odds to set this nation on course 200 years ago. But our glory didn't end with them. Americans ever since have emulated their deeds.”

Years Littles Ends America Courses Speak Nations Pride Band Glory Years Ago Deeds Admiration Odds

Author:Ronald Reagan

“I have nothing to speak of but my self-and what can I say but what I feel.”

Feels Self Speak

Author:John Keats

“Crowds speak in heroes.”

Speak Hero Crowds

Book:Crowds: A Study of the Genius of Democracy and of the Fears, Desires, and Expectations of the People

Source: Crowds: A Study of the Genius of Democracy and of the Fears, Desires, and Expectations of the People

“People speak with enormous pomposity and arrogance about music.”

People Speak Enormous Arrogance Pomposity

Author:Elvis Costello

“A dream inspiring a story is different than placing a description of a dream in a story. When you describe a character's dream, it has to be sharper than reality in some way, and more meaningful. It has to somehow speak to plot, character, and all the rest. If you're writing something fantastical, it can be a really deadly choice because your story already has elements that can seem dreamlike.”

Ifs Way Writing Different Character Stories Dream Reality Seems Choices Speak Elements Meaningful Description Plot

Author:Jeff VanderMeer

“I think humor is the social use. You can put anything in it. I think - yes, I speak heavily in analogies - it is like putting the medicine in apple sauce or a block of cheese for a dog. Not that anyone in this room is a dog in this scenario.”

Thinking Use Speak Social Rooms Dog Medicine Block Apples Cheese Scenarios Sauce Analogies

Author:Sloane Crosley

“He who speaks the truth must keep one foot in the stirrup.”

Speak Feet Speak The Truth Stirrups

Author:Mark Shields

“Allah created my tongue to speak. I don't have freedom to come , because Allah created my feet to walk. So I walk, and I speak, and I look, and I hear according to what God says.”

Looks Speak Walks Feet Tongue

Author:Anjem Choudary

“I think everything you do, characters I always find, have their own voices and once you establish who that character is you find a different voice. I think it's just a question of establishing that character and the voice speaks through that character.”

Thinking Different Character Speak Voice Different Voices

Author:Guy Ritchie

“I like the idea of going to one of those retreats where you don't speak - like, silence for five days.”

Ideas Speak Silence Five Retreat

Author:Madonna Ciccone

“Hearing Mass is the ceremony I most favor during my travels. Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.”

Humor Funny Speak Church Answers Mass Hearing Favors Ceremony

Author:Charles de Gaulle

“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.”

Way Kind Moments Home Left Speak Cities Violence Discipline Holy Weapons Angry New Ways Forbidden Insects Pilgrim Mecca Angry Words

Author:Karen Armstrong

“When the imagination sleeps, words are emptied of their meaning: a deaf population absent-mindedly registers the condemnation of a man. ... there is no other solution but to speak out and show the obscenity hidden under the verbal cloak.”

Men Shows Speak Imagination Sleep Solutions Population Deaf Absent Register Condemnation Speaks Out Cloaks Obscenity

Book:Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays

Source: Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays

“The Communists, following Hegel, speak of humanity and its future as of some monolithic individuality. I was attacking this illusion.”

Humanity Speak Illusion Individuality Following Communist Attacking Hegel

Author:Simone de Beauvoir

“What I have always found most beautiful in the theatre, in my childhood, and still today, is lustre--a beautiful object, luminous, crystalline, complex, circular, symmetrical. However, I do not absolutely deny the value of dramatic literature. Only, I should like the actors to be mounted on high pattens, to wear masks more expressive than the human face, and to speak through megaphones.”

Source: Baudelaire, His Prose and Poetry

“If you can allow colour to breathe, to occupy its own space, to play its own game in its unstable way, it's wanton behaviour, so to speak. It is promiscuous like nothing.”

Ifs Way Play Games Speak Space Breathe Colour Behaviour Unstable Wanton Promiscuous

Author:Bridget Riley

“When I speak now, my experience in art wells up so articulately that I am surprised even while I am talking. I move around a podium as easily as if it were my living room and although I am keyed up I am not anxious. I feel as if I were doing what I should be doing - the feeling I have when intent in my studio.”

Ifs Feels Should Wells Art Feelings Moving Speak Rooms Talking Studios Anxious Living Room Speak Now

Book:Turn: The Journal of an Artist

Source: Turn: The Journal of an Artist

“Art is something about the spirit... if you want to make something that has a spirit, and speaks to the spirit of other people in the world, you have to touch it, you have to physically address it... if you don't, if you just farm it out, it becomes a product.”

People Ifs World Want Art Spirit Spirituality Speak Products Art Is Addresses Farms

Author:Shary Boyle

“It's my language, the language I speak. I've spent a lot more time playing music than talking or writing.”

Writing Speak Language Talking More Time Playing Music

Author:Nitin Sawhney

“How many languages do we really speak?”

Speak Language

Author:Alfredo Jaar

“Only by glaring into the depths of ones own reflection can we find our true selves. It is here where the mirrored voices of our souls speak and can be heard.”

Soul Self Speak Voice Heard Reflection Depth True Self

Book:Mirrored Voices: Best New Poets

Source: Mirrored Voices: Best New Poets

“My people, you gotta think before you move, you gotta speak before you cry, you gotta live before you die.”

People Thinking Moving Dies Speak Cry

Author:Lil B

“The relativism which is not willing to speak about truth but only about ‘what is true for me’ is an evasion of the serious business of living. It is the mark of a tragic loss of nerve in our contemporary culture. It is a preliminary symptom of death.”

Culture Speak Loss Willing Serious Mark Contemporary Tragic Nerves Symptoms Relativism Evasion Serious Business Tragic Loss

Book:The Gospel in a Pluralist Society: SPCK Classic

Source: The Gospel in a Pluralist Society: SPCK Classic

“I've been writing about growing old for some time, really from the beginning of my career. It's something I'm apparently hung up about and now that I am old, hopefully I speak about it with some authority.”

Writing Speak Careers Growing Authority Hopefully Hung Growing Old

Author:Loudon Wainwright III

“At the moment, it actually says nothing about a possible cosmic-ray effect on clouds and climate, but it's a very important first step.” This may be because he was ordered to speak circumspectly. According to science writer Nigel Calder, Rolf-Dieter Heuer, the director of the CERN lab, told a German newspaper that “I have asked the colleagues to present the results clearly, but not to interpret them. That would go immediately into the highly political arena of the climate change debate. One has to make clear that cosmic radiation is only one of many parameters.”

“I felt naked. I felt as perhaps a bird may feel in the clear air knowing the hawk wings above and will swoop. I began to feel the need of fellowship. I wanted to question, wanted to speak, wanted to relate my experience. What is this spirit in man that urges him forever to depart from happiness, to toil and to place himself in danger?”

Men Needs Feels May Wanted Spirit Speak Felt Forever Knowing Clear Air Danger Bird Wings Naked Relate Urges Toil Fellowship Hawks

Author:H. G. Wells

“I grew up in a physical world, and I speak English. The next generation is growing up in a digital world, and they speak social.”

World Next Speak Social Growing Up Growing Generations Grew Grew Up Digital Next Generation Speak English Digital World

Author:Angela Ahrendts

“We ourselves, though we're guilty of every sin, are not just a work of God: we're image. Yet we have cut ourselves off from our Creator in both soul and body. Did we get eyes to serve lust, the tongue to speak evil, ears to hear evil, a throat for gluttony, a stomach to be gluttony's ally, hands to do violence, genitals for unchaste excesses, feet for an erring life? Was the soul put in the body to think up traps, fraud, and injustice? I don't think so.”

Thinking Soul Body Hands Eye Evil Speak Sin Cutting Violence Feet Ears Injustice Creator Tongue Lust Guilty Throat Stomach Allies Fraud Excess Traps Gluttony Soul And Body Erring

Author:Tertullian

“So many artists today will talk about green this or organic that, but you know what? What we are eating, I think, is really doing a lot of bad to us. I'm not sure if I'm the guy to do it right now, because I have to clean up my house too, so to speak, but we've got to start addressing this. Too many people are getting sick today.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Today Artist Guy House Speak Right Now Eating Sick Green Clean Not Sure

Author:Tom DeLonge

“It is difficult to speak of the universal specifically.”

Speak Difficult Universal

Author:Horace

“When one is not understood one should as a rule lower one's voice, because when one really speaks loudly enough and is not heard, it is because people do not want to hear. One had better begin to mutter to oneself, then they get curious.”

People Want Should Enough Speak Voice Heard Understood Oneself Curious

Author:Carl Jung

“It is easier not to speak a word at all than to speak more words than we should.”

Should Speak Easier

Author:Thomas a Kempis

“The rules of grammar are mere human statutes, which is why when he speaks out of the possessed the Devil himself speaks bad Latin.”

Humans Speak Devil Mere Latin Possessed Grammar Speaks Out Statutes

Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg

“The Nazis spoke of having a Jewish problem. We now speak of having a drug-abuse problem. Actually, "Jewish problem" was the name the Germans gave to their persecution of the Jews; "drug-abuse problem" is the name we give to the persecution of people who use certain drugs.”

People Giving Use Problem Certain Names Speak Drug Abuse Jew Spokes Nazi Persecution Drug Abuse

Author:Thomas Szasz

“As the base rhetorician uses language to increase his own power, to produce converts to his own cause, and to create loyal followers of his own person - so the noble rhetorician uses language to wean men away from their inclination to depend on authority, to encourage them to think and speak clearly, and to teach them to be their own masters.”

Thinking Men Persons Use Speak Language Causes Teach Produce Masters Depends Authority Increase Noble Followers Loyal Inclination

Author:Thomas Szasz

“Like Karl Kraus [Wittgenstein], was seldom pleased by what he saw of the institutions of men, and the idiom of the passerby mostly offended his ear - particularly when they happened to speak philosophically; and like Karl Kraus, he suspected that the institutions could not but be corrupt if the idiom of the race was confused, presumptuous, and vacuous, a fabric of nonsense, untruth, deception, and self-deception.”

Ifs Men Self Speak Race Saws Happened Ears Institutions Deception Confused Nonsense Fabric Offended Self Deception Untruth Idiom Presumptuous Vacuous Passerby

Author:Thomas Szasz

“I believe I shall never be old enough to speak without embarrassment when I have nothing to talk about.”

Believe Enough Speak I Believe Embarrassment

Book:The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln as Reflected in His Briefer Letters and Speeches

Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln as Reflected in His Briefer Letters and Speeches

“We know, Southern men declare that their slaves are better off than hired laborers amongst us. How little they know, whereof they speak! There is no permanent class of hired laborers amongst us. Twenty-five years ago, I was a hired laborer. The hired laborer of yesterday, labors on his own account today; and will hire others to labor for him tomorrow.”

Knows Men Years Littles Today Speak Class Five Tomorrow Years Ago Labor Accounts Twenties Slave Yesterday Permanent Five Years Southern Better Off Twenty Five Laborers

Book:Lincoln on Democracy

Source: Lincoln on Democracy

“Voting is not only our right, it is our power. When we vote, we take back our power to choose, to speak up, and to stand with those who support us and each other.”

Speak Support Vote Voting

Author:Loung Ung

“You and I have formerly seen warm debates and high political passions. But gentlemen of different politics would then speak to each other and separate the business of the Senate from that of society. It is not so now. Men who have been intimate all their lives, cross the streets to avoid meeting, and turn their heads another way, lest they should be obliged to touch their hats. This may do for young men with whom passion is enjoyment. But it is afflicting to peaceable minds. Tranquility is the old man's milk.”

“Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.”

Should Speak Talking Design Architecture Architect Bad Ass Badass Timelessness Architecture And Design Architecture Design Modern Architecture Architecture And Art Architectural Design

Author:Frank Gehry

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