#poke

People who supported Obama felt like they formed a relationship, that they were being spoken to. The way that campaign worked and the way he's worked during his first term is to make people feel like he's grasping their hand, whether it's by tweeting or email, moments after an event, sometimes during an event. It makes people relate to him. ↗

— James Spader

#being #campaign #during #email #event

I interviewed survivors, I went to Poland, saw the cities and spent time with the people and spoke to the Jews who had come back to Poland after the war and talked about why they had come back. ↗

— Steven Spielberg

#after #back #cities #come #had

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#finds #hearer #language #prepared #speech

My favorite hobby is being alone. I like to be alone. I also like dancing, fishing, playing poker sometimes and vegetable gardening - corn, tomatoes, cucumbers, I have a big garden every year. ↗

— Emanuel Steward

#also #being #being alone #big #corn

I was, like, forty at birth. When I wasn't even a year old, I spoke, I was potty trained, I walked and talked. That was it. Then I started school and drove everybody crazy because they realized I had popped out as an adult. I had adult questions and wanted adult answers. ↗

— Sharon Stone

#answers #because #birth #crazy #drove

I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent. ↗

— Publilius Syrus

#i #never #often #regret #silent

When you first entered the restaurant, I thought you were handsome... and then, of course, you spoke. ↗

— Helen Hunt

#entered #first #handsome #i #restaurant

I'm absolutely gonna win it, because I'm ruthless. I sit at the poker table and my job is to destroy people. ↗

— James Woods

#because #destroy #gonna #i #job

Already old, the question Who shall die? Becomes unspoken Who is innocent? ↗