Speaking Quotes (page 94)

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• tree
• speak
• tongues

I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues. Dr. Seuss

• she
• life death
• empty

But nowadays my heart is empty and the boxwood has lost its magic scent; yes, absolutely and entirely. The creature that I was no longer exists. When I speak to her she does not understand me; I think of her, already, as of some one I have known but who no longer has any connection with myself. This sort of death of part of oneself strikes terror into my heart. Life presents itself to me as a progressive series of annihilations, until in time one arrives at the general destruction of all... Julien Green

• money
• work
• film

It's only just beginning to occur to me that it's important to have something going on somewhere, at work or at home, otherwise you're just clinging on. [...] You need as much ballast as possible to stop you floating away; you need people around you, things going on, otherwise life is like some film where the money ran out, and there are no sets, or locations, or supporting actors, and it's just one guy on his own staring into the camera with nothing to do and nobody to speak to, and who'd... Nick Hornby

• best love
• best
• broken

I speak to the broken halves of all our selves and tell them to embrace, loving the worst in us equally with the best. J. M. Coetzee

• great
• innocent
• greatness

Of what is great one must either be silent or speak with greatness. With greatness--that means cynically and with innocence. Friedrich Nietzsche

• top
• week
• animal

We were little animals, which is not to imply that by the end of the week we were tearing our tank tops off; just that, metaphorically speaking, we had begun to sniff each other's bottoms, and we did not find the odor entirely repellent. Nick Hornby

• children
• opportunity
• chance

I am the youngest of 14 children, so I rarely got a chance to speak. If I have an opportunity for talking, I talk Celine Dion

• caring
• enough
• thinking

What could he mean by speaking so, as if I were always thinking that he cared for me, when I know he does not; he cannot. ... But I won't care for him. I surely am mistress enough of myself to control this wild, strange, miserable feeling Elizabeth Gaskell

• dog
• speaks
• those

Dogs do speak, but only to those who know how to listen. Orhan Pamuk

• bored
• thoughts
• joy

The theologian who labors without joy is not a theologian at all. Sulky faces, morose thoughts and boring ways of speaking are intolerable in this field. Karl Barth

• feeling
• people
• manly

I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I've never met an ordinary man, woman or child. Joseph Campbell

• wellness
• enough
• speak

Me?--yes; I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible. Jane Austen

• medical
• appearance
• strong

The appearance in nineteenth-century psychiatry, jurisprudence, and literature of a whole series of discourses on the species and subspecies of homosexuality, inversion, pederasty, and "psychic hermaphroditism" made possible a strong advance of social controls into this area of "perversity"; but it also made possible the formation of a "reverse" discourse: homosexuality began to speak in its own behalf, to demand that its legitimacy or "naturality" be acknowledged, often in the same... Michel Foucault

• environment
• drawing
• depends

Self-confidence depends on environment: one does not speak in the same tone in the drawing room than in the kitchen. Gustave Flaubert

• time
• space
• struggle

And in prayer this real I struggles to speak, for once from his being, and to address, for once, not the other actors, but--what shall I call Him? the Author, for He invented us all? The Producer, for He controls all? Or the Audience, for He watches, and will judge the performance? The attempt is not to escape from space and time and from my creaturely situation as a subject facing objects. It is more modest: to re-awaken the awareness of that situation. If that can be done, there is... C. S. Lewis