#peak

Every person who speaks or writes for the public will make an occasional faux pas, and sooner or later will write or say something inappropriate. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#faux #inappropriate #later #make #occasional

The most watched programme on the BBC, after the news, is probably 'Doctor Who.' What has happened is that science fiction has been subsumed into modern literature. There are grandparents out there who speak Klingon, who are quite capable of holding down a job. No one would think twice now about a parallel universe. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#after #bbc #been #capable #doctor

It is no use speaking in soft, gentle tones if everyone else is shouting. ↗

— Joseph Priestley

#everyone #gentle #shouting #soft #speaking

Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent. ↗

— Sextus Propertius

#ill #speak #willing

It's always better to speak the language of the team. Not only for the direct contact with everyone - sometimes it also helps you to understand the mentality of the people in the team a bit better. ↗

— Alain Prost

#always #better #bit #contact #direct

When deeds speak, words are nothing. ↗

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

#deeds #nothing #speak #words

An exact poetic duplication of a man is for the poet a negation of the earth, an impossibility of being, even though his greatest desire is to speak to many men, to unite with them by means of harmonious verses about the truths of the mind or of things. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

#being #desire #duplication #earth #even

He passes from lyric to epic poetry in order to speak about the world and the torment in the world through man, rationally and emotionally. The poet then becomes a danger. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

#becomes #danger #emotionally #epic #epic poetry

Somebody said to me that I speak English almost like somebody for whom English is not their first language. ↗

— Christopher Walken

#english #first #i #language #like

Ignorant free speech often works against the speaker. That is one of several reasons why it must be given rein instead of suppressed. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#free #free speech #given #ignorant #instead