#peaks

An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#honest #honest man #man #may #offence

My point is there's a hidden Scotland in anyone who speaks the Northern Ireland speech. It's a terrific complicating factor, not just in Northern Ireland, but Ireland generally. ↗

— Seamus Heaney

#factor #generally #hidden #ireland #just

Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another. ↗

— Homer

#gates #hateful #heart #hides #his

A signal is comprehended if it serves to make us notice the object or situation it bespeaks. A symbol is understood when we conceive the idea it presents. ↗

— Susanne Langer

#comprehended #conceive #idea #make #notice

He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero. ↗

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

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The vehemence with which certain critics have chosen not simply to criticize what I've written, but to challenge my writing this story at all, speaks of what the book is about: fear of disapproval. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

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It's a dead give away of an inexperienced writer if every character speaks with the same voice. ↗

— Colleen McCullough

#character #dead #every #give #inexperienced

The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity. ↗

— Jean Paul

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A child speaks more sense than an adult half of the time. ↗

— Zoe Saldana

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If the picture speaks to me, if it tells me something about myself, then I want it. Then I have to have it. ↗

— Norton Simon

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