“To take arms against a sea of troubles.” DeathTroubleSeaArmsSpeechAcheFear Of DeathInactionOpposingHamlet And OpheliaHamlet 2Brave New World HappinessBrave New World FreedomImportant HamletBrave New World CharacterMortality In HamletHamlet ThemeBe Or Not To BeHamlet RevengeMorality In HamletSlings And ArrowsHamlet DeathHamlet SignificantDenmark In Hamlet Author:William Shakespeare
“I never saw so intelligent a man have so much trouble in getting out a connected sentence. Ever since I have known him, he has desired to have a long talk with me, but he never gets started; and yet each time he meets me with renewed zest for the outpouring. It is like getting congealed liquid from a demijohn; you know the jug is large and full, but getting the contents out is the problem.” KnowsMenLongProblemKnownSawsTroublePersonalitySpeechIntelligentConnectedSentencesLiquidZestJugs Book:Elizabeth Cady Stanton as Revealed in Her Letters, Diary and Reminiscences Source: Elizabeth Cady Stanton as Revealed in Her Letters, Diary and Reminiscences
“The radicals...want speech regulated by codes that proscribe certain language. They see free speech as at best a delusion, at worst a threat to the welfare of minorities and women....The most obvious (and cynical) explanation for the switched positions is the switched situations. Protesting students became established professors and administrators. For outsiders, free speech is bread and butter; for insiders, indigestion. To the new academics, unregulated free speech spells trouble.” WantCertainLanguageSituationTroubleWorstPositionStudentsSpeechThreatObviousBreadRadicalCodeWelfareExplanationMinoritiesDelusionProfessorsSpellsCynicalFree SpeechOutsidersAdministratorsInsidersIndigestionBread And Butter Author:Russell Jacoby
“Our speech has its weaknesses and its defects, like all the rest. Most of the occasions for the troubles of the world are grammatical.” WorldLanguageEducationTroubleSpeechWeaknessOccasionsDefectsMisunderstanding Book:Complete Essays Source: Complete Essays
“Forget what you learned about poetry in school. (That it's complex, opaque, a problem to be solved in 1500 words by tomorrow.) Poetry is the last preserve of honest speech and the outspoken heart. It holds the cadence of common life. It has a passion for truth and justice and liberty; it is a buoy to people in ordinary trouble: to a friend whose life has gone skidding into the meridian, who has been struck by bad news, who is frying eggs and hash browns and has whiny child clinging to his pant leg.” PeopleHeartChildrenHas BeensProblemSchoolLastsPassionJusticeForgetCommonLibertyGoneTroubleHonestTomorrowSpeechNewsOrdinaryComplexesLegsPreservesEggsPoetry IsClingingBad NewsOutspokenCadenceOpaqueFryingTruth And JusticeCommon LifeHashBuoys Author:Garrison Keillor
“Writing for me is a dragnet that carries everything away with it: expressions and figures of speech, postures, feelings, thoughts, troubles. In short, the lives of others.” WritingFeelingsTroubleFiguresExpressionSpeechCarriePostureLives Of OthersFigures Of Speech Author:Elena Ferrante