#speaking

The first sign of greatness is when a man does not attempt to look and act great. Before you can call yourself a man at all, Kipling assures us, you must "not look too good nor talk too wise. ↗

— Dale Breckenridge Carnegie

#public-speaking #art

When someone says, “One last thing,” it never is. Unless they die right after speaking. Make sure that they do. 
Check their pulse to be certain. 
 ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#certainty #conversation #death #murder #pulse

When you hear someone from the very north of Scotland speaking, I think its nice, very musical and harmonious. ↗

— Sean Connery

#hear #i #i think #musical #nice

When we were making Speaking in Tongues and Remain in Light, we were jamming. From that we were taking the best bits and then recording and improvising on top of those. ↗

— Tina Weymouth

#bits #improvising #jamming #light #making

I heard an Israeli speaking on Palestinian human rights issues, an interesting guy, and he said "There's no military solution to terrorism. If there were, Israel would be the safest place in the world. But there's no military solution." ↗

— Bradley Whitford

#heard #human #human rights #i #interesting

In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#each #happy #other #single #single word

We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory. ↗

— A. B. Yehoshua

#give #identity #israeli #must #often

Generally speaking, if people are prepared to stick their heads above the power pit, like Zinn says, and absorb what's going on around them, it makes them think. ↗

— Thom Yorke

#absorb #around #generally #going #heads

Botanically speaking, tomatoes are the fruit of a vine, just as are cucumbers, squashes, beans and peas. ↗

— Horace Gray

#fruit #just #peas #speaking #tomatoes

Generally speaking, when a woman offers unsolicited advice or tries to help a man, she has no idea of how critical and unloving he may sound to him. ↗

— John Gray

#critical #generally #help #him #how