#peaks

He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good. ↗

— Confucius

#find #good #his #make #modesty

My presence speaks volumes before I say a word. ↗

— Mos Def

#i #presence #say #speaks #volumes

The Marshall is supposed to be 200 watts, but mine's never worked right; it peaks out at 80. ↗

— Stevie Ray Vaughan

#mine #never #out #peaks #right

I do not believe in pure idioms. I think there is naturally a desire, for whoever speaks or writes, to sign in an idiomatic, irreplaceable manner. ↗

— Jacques Derrida

#desire #i #i do #i think #idioms

An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#almost #author #bad #books #children

If you want music that speaks to you, that LISTENS to you, you have to go out of your way, which I enjoy actually. I'm constantly on a private-eye kick to find the totally obscure. ↗

— Trevor Dunn

#constantly #enjoy #find #go #i

An American cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his talk falls into a dissertation. He speaks to you as if he was addressing a meeting; and if he should chance to become warm in the discussion, he will say "Gentlemen" to the person with whom he is conversing. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#american #become #cannot #chance #converse

One may speak about anything on earth with fire, with enthusiasm, with ecstasy, but one only speaks about oneself with avidity. ↗

— Ivan Turgenev

#anything #avidity #earth #ecstasy #enthusiasm

Obama has no solutions. Obama has failed the country and its great citizens, and they don't like it when somebody such as myself speaks the truth about this - it hurts too much. ↗

— Donald Trump

#citizens #country #failed #great #hurts

When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics. ↗

— Voltaire

#himself #metaphysics #speaks #understand #who