Speakers Quotes - Page 18

• Mr. Speaker, I once again find myself compelled to vote against the annual budget resolution for a very simple reason: it makes government bigger.

  Ron Paul

  Simple, Government, Vote

  Ron Paul (2008). “Pillars of Prosperity: Free Markets, Honest Money, Private Property”, p.430, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Wilson stopped and stood silent. Inattention dies a quick and sure death when a speaker does that.

  Mark Twain

  Doe, Inattention, Silent

  Mark Twain (2015). “The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson”, p.171, Library of Alexandria

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• House Speaker Pelosi worried about the opposition, the tone of it, perhaps leading to violence as it did in the 70s. Theres more recent examples of anti-government violence - occurring even in the mid-90s. Do you worry about that?

  David Gregory

  Government, Worry, House

  "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. September 20, 2009.

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• Say not always what you know, but always know what you say.

  Claudius

  Motivational, Self Improvement, Public Speaking

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• Why tell me that a man is a fine speaker, if it is not the truth that he is speaking?

  Thomas Carlyle

  Truth, Men, Fine

  John Stuart Mill, Thomas Carlyle (2010). “Autobiography of J.S. Mill & on Liberty; Characteristics, Inaugural Address at Edinburgh & Sir Walter Scott”, p.394, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Lyrics are weak, like clock radio speakers.

  GZA

  Rap, Hip Hop, Radio

  Song: Liquid Swords, Album: Liquid Swords

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• I don't get pat down, you know what's on the waist,
  I don't mean Jazz when I say I "count base."
  Fly Louis sneakers, Purple Tape coming out the speakers,
  Bumped into my high school teachers,
  They said I wouldn't be nothing, sitting on the bleachers.
  Now I'm sitting in the Phantom, trynna figure out the features.
  I'm a big fish now, I watch for the leeches.

  Sheek Louch

  Teacher, Rap, School

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• It's not so much knowing when to speak, when to pause.

  Jack Benny

  Knowing, Speak, Pauses

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• That makes me think, my friend, as I have often done before, how natural it is that those who have spent a long time in the study of philosophy appear ridiculous when they enter the courts of law as speakers. Those who have knocked about in courts and the like from their youth up seem to me, when compared with those who have been brought up in philosophy and similar pursuits, to be as slaves in breeding compared with freemen.

  Plato

  Plato, Philosophy, Thinking

  Plato (1921). “Theaetetus, Sophist”

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• My parents were both Spanish-speakers and they used to speak to me and my siblings in Spanish and we'd answer them in English.

  America Ferrera

  Sibling, Parent, Answers

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• The statement "I am in pain" may be one piece of evidence for the conclusion that the speaker is in pain, but it is not the only possible evidence, and since people sometimes tell lies, not even the best possible evidence. Even if there were stronger grounds for refusing to attribute pain to those who do not have language, the consequences of this refusal might lead us to reject the conclusion. Human infants and young children are unable to use language. Are we to deny that a year-old child can suffer?

  Peter Singer

  Children, Pain, Lying

  Peter Singer (1975). “Animal liberation: a new ethics for our treatment of animals”

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• Teaching...can be likened to a conversation in which you listen to the speaker carefully before you reply.

  Marie Clay

  Inspiring, Teaching, Reading

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• The pure work implies the disappearance of the poet as speaker, who hands over to the words.

  Stephane Mallarme

  Hands, Poetic, Pure

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• Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.

  Oscar Wilde

  Talking, Two, People

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• I love a finished speaker, I really, truly do I don't mean one who's polished, I just mean one who's through.

  Richard Armour

  Mean, Polished, Finished

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• Almost all of the stories in The Matchmaker, the Apprentice, and the Football Fan are told in the first person, yet, depending on the angle and distance of the narrator, they exert different effects. The best are those in which the speaker never poses as an objective outsider. (...) Other stories are damaged by the urge to distance the narrator.

  Yiyun Li

  Football, Distance, Narrators

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• Indeed a good quotation hardly ever comes amiss. It is a pleasing break in the thread of a speech or writing, allowing the speaker or writer to retire for an instant while another and greater makes himself heard. And this calling-up of the deathless dead implies also a community of mind with them, which the reader will not grudge the author lest he should seem to deny it to himself.

  William Francis Henry King

  Writing, Community, Mind

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• The attribution of a speaker is in fact a part of the quotation. Some statements simply are better if a certain famous person said them.

  Gary Saul Morson

  Facts, Said, Certain

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• Free speech isn't dead in Germany and Italy, merely the speakers.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Humorous, Italian

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• As the music played over the speakers and the waterfall in the pool filled the silence around us, I knew that without a doubt I had just been ruined.

  Abbi Glines

  Silence, Doubt, Waterfalls

  Abbi Glines (2016). “Sea Breeze Volume 2: Just for Now; Sometimes It Lasts; Misbehaving”, p.413, Simon and Schuster

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• This speaker reminds me of my childhood in Budapest. There were gypsy magicians who came to town to entertain us children. But as I recollect, there was one important difference: the gypsy only seemed to violate the laws of nature, he never really violated them!

  Theodore von Karman

  Children, Science, Law

  Theodore Von Kármán (1965). “Theodore Von Kármán, 1881-1963: In Memoriam”

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• The speaker does not feel the grammatical rules he is said to apply in composing sentences, and men spoke grammatically for thousands of years before anyone knew there were rules.

  B. F. Skinner

  Men, Years, Doe

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• A thought is truly sought only if it has got, in latent or potent form, the strength of 'WE' which sounds as 'V' that stands for 'VICTORY', and so it reflects the power of a true leader who as writer or speaker involves everyone alike at the same level.

  Anuj

  Leader, Victory, Sound

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• Let me tell you, Barack Obama is the most down dude in the world, but he's so smart so articulate, such an amazing speaker such a passionate man. He's humble.

  Marlon Wayans

  Smart, Humble, Men

  "Eur Interviews Marlon Wayans, Co-Writer, Producer Of 'A Haunted House'". Interview with Deborah B. Pryor, www.eurweb.com. January 12, 2013.

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• Forcing modern speakers of English to not - whoops, not to split an infinitive because it isn't done in Latin makes about as much sense as forcing modern residents of England to wear laurels and togas.

  Steven Pinker

  Latin, Writing, Editing

  Steven Pinker (1994). “The Language Instinct”, William Morrow & Company

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