#peak

If, like Harry Keogh, I could talk to the dead - God, there are an awful lot of people I would like to speak to! Not least my father. Being in the army for 22 years, I didn't see enough of him, and I know there are a great many things I could have learned from him. ↗

— Brian Lumley

#awful #being #could #dead #enough

The advantage of working for a corporation is that it has only one message, because a product or a service doesn't speak; it's just there, and you can advertise it. ↗

— Frank Luntz

#advertise #because #corporation #just #message

I was speaking to Ridley Scott the other day and he makes a film every 18 months. He's amazing really. ↗

— Adrian Lyne

#day #every #film #i #makes

Today a new sun rises for me; everything lives, everything is animated, everything seems to speak to me of my passion, everything invites me to cherish it. ↗

— Ninon de L'Enclos

#cherish #everything #invites #lives #me

Many of the Central Asians know Russian, and Ted Levin speaks it fluently. I speak Chinese, but Mongolian is completely different, so we had to have translators. ↗

— Yo-Yo Ma

#central #chinese #completely #different #fluently

And some poets are far better read off the page because they're very bad speakers. I'm thinking of one in particular whom I won't name, a good poet, and he reads in such a dry, boring way, your eyes start drooping. ↗

— Norman MacCaig

#because #better #boring #drooping #dry

When I talk of hearing a poet's voice speaking, I always think of it as in the presence of the man. ↗

— Norman MacCaig

#hearing #i #i always #man #poet

I can give substantive advice to the administration, the president's campaign, or any campaign that would ask for it. And, of course, when I speak I can talk about my views on policy and I have been supportive of the president's policy on leading foreign-policy issues. ↗

— Dennis Ross

#administration #advice #any #ask #been

There are certainly good examples of incredibly brilliant, beautiful music that has been made commercially available and sold everywhere. But I would say that, for the most part, quantity certainly does not speak well for quality. ↗

— Ian MacKaye

#beautiful #beautiful music #been #brilliant #certainly

When children start to speak they find their own voice by imitating the sounds around them. It would follow that bands do the same. Bands will find their own voice at some point. ↗

— Ian MacKaye

#bands #children #find #follow #imitating