#speaking

Acquire the habit of speaking to God as if you were alone with Him, familiarly and with confidence and love, as to the dearest and most loving of friends. ↗

— Alphonsus Liguori

#alone #confidence #dearest #friends #god

If you see the Sopranos, you're not going to be speaking in the Shakespearean English. ↗

— Lucy Liu

#going #see #shakespearean #sopranos #speaking

I can only speak for myself, and hope people hear my words and see me on television speaking for myself. And, hopefully, they'll be able to make their own judgment. And at the end of the day, I just want my work to speak for itself. ↗

— Jennifer Lopez

#day #end #end of the day #hear #hope

I was speaking to Ridley Scott the other day and he makes a film every 18 months. He's amazing really. ↗

— Adrian Lyne

#day #every #film #i #makes

When I talk of hearing a poet's voice speaking, I always think of it as in the presence of the man. ↗

— Norman MacCaig

#hearing #i #i always #man #poet

Every story was being made up. My true friends weren't the ones speaking. It was people who never knew me, making up stories. Even my local paper put a $1,000 bounty out for information about my whereabouts. ↗

— Marla Maples

#being #bounty #even #every #friends

Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the center of a social event, the meeting of a book club, is a brilliant idea. ↗

— Yann Martel

#books #brilliant #center #club #event

You know, your speaking voice comes back, but your singing voice you use in a different way. ↗

— Kathy Mattea

#comes #different #different way #know #singing

Nothing like being visible, publishing one's work, and speaking openly about one's life, to disabuse the world of the illusion of one's perfection and purity. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#being #illusion #life #like #nothing

I was raised on the values of speaking up and making a positive difference in a very political family that believed in the importance of public service. ↗

— Scott McClellan

#difference #family #i #i was raised #importance