#peak

From one till seven, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese. But I can't speak a word of it now. ↗

— Francesca Annis

#i #moved #now #only #portuguese

In films people basically work for the camera, you know, and that's why actors can hate each other and not be speaking to each other and still look as if they're in love because really they're loving the camera loving them. ↗

— Francesca Annis

#because #camera #each #films #hate

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth. ↗

— Joan of Arc

#hung #people #say #sometimes #speaking

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

History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#anthropology #belongs #history #questions #sociology

I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible. ↗

— Jane Austen

#enough #i #speak #unintelligible #well

Nevertheless there are certain peaks, canons, and clear meadow spaces which are above all compassing of words, and have a certain fame as of the nobly great to whom we give no familiar names. ↗

— Mary Austin

#canons #certain #clear #fame #familiar

Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#deal #discretion #eloquence #good #good words

People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#act #custom #generally #inclinations #ingrained