Speaking Quotes

The Greeks follow a wrong usage in speaking of coming into being and passing away; for nothing comes into being or passes away, but there is mingling and separation of things that are. So they would be right to call coming into being mixture, and passing away separation.

Anaxagoras

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

O American people, I am speaking to tell you about the ideal way to avoid another Manhattan, about war and its causes and results.

Osama bin Laden

People talking without speaking, People hearing without listening, People writing songs that voices never share, and no one dare disturb the Sound of Silence.

Silence People

Let us repeat the two crucial negative premises as established firmly by all human experience: (1) Words are not the things we are speaking about; and (2) There is no such thing as an object in absolute isolation.

Alfred Korzybski

If speaking is silver, then listening is gold.

Turkish Proverb

Speaking to a lawyer about pictures is something like talking to a butcher about humanity.

John Constable

The ultimate politeness in art consists of speaking only to those who are able to uncover and measure its relationships. Anything else is symbolic, and symbolism is merely transcendental imagery.

Jean Maurice Eugne Clment Cocteau

There are no words, no paints to express all this, only a beautiful dumbness in the soul, life speaking to life.

Emily Carr

History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.

W. H. Auden

From listening comes wisdom, and from speaking repentance.

Italian Proverb

Generally speaking, there is more wit than talent in the world. Society swarms with witty people who lack talent.

Antoine Rivarol

Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening

Dorothy Sarnoff

There are three things to aim at in public speaking: first, to get into your subject, then to get your subject into yourself, and lastly, to get your subject into the heart of your audience

Alexander Gregg

Generally speaking, actors are allowed NO input. Actors are dumb.

Dirk Benedict
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