#peak

Vivid images are like a beautiful melody that speaks to you on an emotional level. It bypasses your logic centers and even your intellect and goes to a different part of the brain. ↗

— Steven Bochco

#brain #centers #different #emotional #emotional level

Mr. Speaker, the time for an increase in the minimum wage has not just arrived; it is long overdue. ↗

— Sherwood Boehlert

#increase #just #long #minimum #minimum wage

My natural accent is American. I chose to speak with a U.K. accent when I was about to enter the final year at drama school in London. I was going to try to find a way to stay in the U.K. after I finished college and could not imagine trying to live and get work there with an American accent. ↗

— Jennifer Ehle

#accent #after #american #american accent #chose

There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us. Otherwise, you know, why not just come out and say it? ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#come #common #fear #foreign #foreign languages

My dad was a Marine. He was one of the Montford Point Marines. Those are the equivalent of the Tuskegee Airmen for Marines. He's a tough, tough guy. When I was 15 we had a fight, and I didn't speak to him for 10 years. ↗

— Larry Elder

#dad #equivalent #fight #guy #had

I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of public speaking and of approaching young women in public. ↗

— Albert Ellis

#approaching #behavior #eclectic #fear #get

I believe it is important to speak to your readers in person... to enable people to have a whole picture of me; I have to both write and speak. I view my role as writer and also as oral communicator. ↗

— Buchi Emecheta

#believe #both #communicator #enable #i

Good Christian people, I am come hither to die, for according to the law, and by the law I am judged to die, and therefore I will speak nothing against it. I am come hither to accuse no man, nor to speak anything of that, whereof I am accused and condemned to die. ↗

— Anne Boleyn

#accuse #accused #against #am #anything

We still need a voice that thinks before it speaks. ↗

— Simon Armitage

#need #speaks #still #thinks #voice

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. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#any #carry #city #discipline #forbidden