#spoke

All my children have spoken for themselves since they first learned to speak, and not always with my advance approval, and I expect that to continue in the future. ↗

— Gerald R. Ford

#always #approval #children #continue #expect

Above all else stands the burning question of bipartisanship. Whatever else the politicians might say they're about, our news analysts know that this is the true object of the nation's desire, the topic to which those slippery presidential spokesmen need always to be dragged back. ↗

— Thomas Frank

#above #always #back #bipartisanship #burning

Graham Greene, as I understand it, was quite outspoken in his criticism of American foreign policy. ↗

— Brendan Fraser

#american foreign policy #criticism #foreign #foreign policy #graham

The spoken form is in fact a very restrained representation of what is possible in the musical language. ↗

— Robert Fripp

#form #in fact #language #musical #possible

As long as a word remains unspoken, you are its master; once you utter it, you are its slave. ↗

— Solomon Ibn Gabirol

#master #once #remains #slave #unspoken

I absolutely realize that a celebrity spokesperson is not ideal. ↗

— Janeane Garofalo

#celebrity #i #ideal #realize #spokesperson

Between his eyes, there were four lines, the marks of such misery as children should never feel. He spoke with that wonderful whisky voice that so many Spanish children have, and he was a tough and entire little boy. ↗

— Martha Gellhorn

#boy #children #entire #eyes #feel

The story about me, apocryphal or not, is that I could sing before I spoke. My parents went into bedroom one day and there I was standing in the crib singing God Bless America. ↗

— Linda Lavin

#america #bedroom #before #bless #could

Parents can plant magic in a child's mind through certain words spoken with some thrilling quality of voice, some uplift of the heart and spirit. ↗

— Robert MacNeil

#child #heart #magic #mind #parents

The hiatus you spoke about happened in 1998. I was somewhat numb from being out on the road every night. I had to stop because I was emotionally and physically drained. ↗

— Chuck Mangione

#because #being #drained #emotionally #every