#speak

I am a lie who always speaks the truth. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

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A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail... Fluency, grace, logical order, and the like, are merely the decorative surface of oratory. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

#conviction #decorative #everything #fluency #forcible

Well-behaved: he always speaks as if his mother might be listening. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#his #listening #might #mother #speaks

I think it bespeaks a generous nature, a man who can cook. ↗

— Jilly Cooper

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I know, speaking for myself, no matter what I'm able to do, no matter what book comes out and ends up on paper, I always had something bigger and grander in my head. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

#always #bigger #book #comes #ends

I do some broadcasting and speaking as well. ↗

— Chuck Daly

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Secrecy is thus, so to speak, a transition stadium between being and not-being. ↗

— Georg Simmel

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Toward the end of his life, one can sense that he was no longer thinking his way into the minds of others, causing them to speak on his behalf, but that he was now speaking for himself. ↗

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

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Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

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Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as it was yesterday when you and I laid wreaths at the Garden of Remembrance. ↗

— Queen Elizabeth II

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