#speakers

The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun. ↗

— George Orwell

#bombs #cities #earth #factories #going

Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#because #convince #convinced #good #good quality

Kids now are so used to surround sound and the power in theater speakers, that the concert hall is a disappointment to them. ↗

— David Ogden Stiers

#concert hall #disappointment #hall #kids #now

Life seems to be fashioned and formed best out of the obstacles that seem unbearable. ↗

— John Paul Warren

#church #inspirational #leadership #motivational #pastors

Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught. ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

#commencement #easy #how #make #next

I haven't spoken English with native speakers in several months. I've been speaking Arabic. ↗

— John Walker Lindh

#been #english #haven #i #months

I know so few people who actually give music their undivided attention, so I've been trying to just park myself on the couch between the speakers and listen. ↗

— Cliff Martinez

#attention #been #between #couch #few

There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us. Otherwise, you know, why not just come out and say it? ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#come #common #fear #foreign #foreign languages

Those of you who have spent time with Australians know that we are not given to overstatement. By nature we are laconic speakers and by conviction we are realistic thinkers. ↗

— Julia Gillard

#conviction #given #know #nature #overstatement

Our language is the reflection of ourselves. A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers. ↗

— Cesar Chavez

#exact #growth #language #our #ourselves