#peak

Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#broadly #old #short #speaking #words

I spoke French a bit, and I could speak a bit of this and that, and when you were taught those things by people who couldn't really do it, you can do some pretty wonderfully, imaginative horrific things to teachers. ↗

— Diane Cilento

#could #french #horrific #i #imaginative

When I went to Los Angeles right after high school, I got some acting jobs, and I never, ever wanted to be an actress! Public speaking and acting make me want to vomit. But I have never been nervous singing. When it comes to public speaking, I stumble on my words, sweat, and pull at my clothes. ↗

— Kelly Clarkson

#actress #after #angeles #been #clothes

If I've been here a long time, I think: I must go to London and speak to someone or see a bus. ↗

— Julian Clary

#bus #go #here #i #i think

Namely, we have no right to believe a thing true because everybody says so unless there are good grounds for believing that some one person at least has the means of knowing what is true, and is speaking the truth so far as he knows it. ↗

— William Kingdon Clifford

#believe #believing #everybody #far #good

The need for peace in Northern Ireland goes well beyond political stability. It now speaks to regional Europe and even global stability. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#europe #even #global #goes #ireland

I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse. ↗

— Charles V

#german #god #horse #i #italian

As writers we must, from our very opening sentence, speak with authority to our readers. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

#must #opening #our #readers #sentence

What President Bush has done speaks more than words about his feeling of compassion and commitment to people. ↗

— Thad Cochran

#bush #commitment #compassion #done #feeling

When I was in Pulp, I actively did more TV stuff because that was during the Great Britpop Wars, and it seemed important to prove that indie people could speak. That war doesn't exist anymore. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#anymore #because #could #did #during