Some people are really into being music-minded and knowing all their scales and how to read music and speak the language.
Every man at time of Death, Would fain set forth some saying that may live After his death and better humankind; For death gives life's last word a power to live, And, lie the stone-cut epitaph, remain After the vanished voice, and speak to men.
English is the easiest language to speak badly.
It will often be a question when a man is or is not wise in advancing unpalatable opinions, or in preaching heresies; but it can never be a question that a man should be silent if unprepared to speak the truth as he conceives it.
If you think before you speak the other guy gets his joke in first.
One should be embarrassed to speak of God in the third person.
I try to be as honest about what I see and to speak rather than be silent, especially if it means I can save lives, or serve humanity.
Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
My manners also came from when I was in college and began participating in critiques. You have to speak with someone respectfully about their work and be honest and open, without hurting them.
Speak not against anyone whose burden you have not weighed yourself.
'He who seeks may easily get lost himself. It is a crime to go apart and be alone. ' Thus speaks the herd.
Many critics speak about coming-of-age love, about initiation, about young libido, and so forth. I've never seen it only this way. We continue to examine things ever so minutely, we interpret obsessively. We may be less bold at 40 than we were at 17, but we're familiar with the road map; we know the bumps in the road; we recognize the sudden turns, the one-way streets, and the dead ends. And we are hurt just the same as when we were teenagers.
If you're not willing to speak out for the rights of other people, then who do you expect to speak out for you when it's your turn?
I was going to be the hero of the movie [The Lost World]. I had to speak up and be like, "Shouldn't I be the one doing that?
Why can't the English teach their children how to speak?
Cosmetic surgery is not "cosmetic," and human flesh is not "plastic. " Even the names trivialize what it is. It's not like ironing wrinkles in fabric, or tuning up a car, or altering outmoded clothes, the current metaphors. Trivialization and infantilization pervade the surgeons' language when they speak to women: "a nip," a "tummy tuck. ". . . Surgery changes one forever, the mind as well as the body. If we don't start to speak of it as serious, the millennium of the man-made woman will be upon us, and we will have had no choice.
In general, what is written must be easy to read and easy to speak; which is the same.
When you speak about generosity, about something good we have inside ourselves, you're speaking to the majority.
I am a woman and when I think, I must speak.
Speak your truth but soothe your words with peace