#speaking

So I got home, and the phone was ringing. I picked it up, and said 'Who's speaking please?' And a voice said 'You are.' ↗

— Tim Vine

#home #i #phone #picked #please

I'll ask you if you can play some speaking roles. ↗

— Donald Wolfit

#i #play #roles #some #speaking

French is, in many ways, more difficult for an English-speaking person to sing. It is so full of complex and trying vowels. It requires the utmost subtlety. ↗

— Alma Gluck

#difficult #english-speaking #french #full #many

I studied German at school. I lived in Berlin for two years and had a German girlfriend for five years, so I don't find speaking German particularly difficult. Singing was slightly more difficult. ↗

— Martin Gore

#difficult #find #five #german #girlfriend

I'm pretty grounded on my own passion - writing books, you know, doing programs, speaking around the country. And I love what I do. ↗

— Stedman Graham

#books #country #doing #grounded #i

I have my moments, but generally speaking I shy away from being too lovey dovey. ↗

— Katherine Heigl

#being #generally #i #moments #shy

Darling: the popular form of address used in speaking to a member of the opposite sex whose name you cannot at the moment remember. ↗

— Oliver Herford

#cannot #darling #form #member #moment

One learns more from listening than speaking.And both the wind and the people who continue to live close to nature still have much to tell us which we cannot hear within university walls. ↗

— Thor Heyerdahl

#cannot #close #continue #hear #learns

Being a press secretary is like learning to type: You're hunting and pecking for a while and then you find yourself doing the touch system and don't realize it. You're speaking for the president without ever having to go to him. ↗

— Larry Speakes

#doing #ever #find #go #having

He actually came up to me and we started speaking. And from that conversation we were able to come to a meeting of the minds and it seemed as if it was clear to me that he wanted to do similar things to what I wanted to do. ↗

— Maurice Ashley

#actually #came #clear #come #conversation