Quotes About Speaking

Reading off a Teleprompter is an easy skill to do passably well and a difficult skill to do very well. I still have room for improvement there. I still talk too fast and I'm trying to slow myself down.

When at the consecration the priest moves into the mode of first-person quotation, he is not speaking in his own person but in the person of Jesus—and that's why those words change the elements.

There is a simple rule, anyone whose cellphone rings while I am speaking will be sold immediately into slavery

Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.

You shall put the mercy seat on top of the ark. . . . And there I will meet with you, and I will speak with you from above the mercy seat. – Exodus 25:21–22

The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it

Semiotic nudge is more about "Speak, Lord; your servant is listening" than it is "Listen, Lord; your servant is speaking."58

O Mouse, do you know the way out of this pool? I am very tired of swimming about here, O Mouse!' (Alice thought this must be the right way of speaking to a mouse: she had never done such a thing before, but she remembered having seen in her brother's Latin Grammar, 'A mouse—of a mouse—to a mouse—a mouse—O mouse!')

This time Alice waited patiently until it chose to speak again. In a minute or two the Caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth, and yawned once or twice, and shook itself. Then it got down off the mushroom, and crawled away in the grass, merely remarking, as it went, "One side will make you grow taller, and the other side will make you grow shorter.

We are the dead. We are the keepers of the stories. We hold the history of blood and promises. We are speaking. Are you listening? Will you hear?

I don't know who will lead us through the '90s, but they must be made to speak to this spiritual vacuum at the heart of American society, this tumor of the soul.

God moves by His Word. He does things by speaking His Word.

So, open your mouth, lad! For every voice counts!

We best defend the Lord's glory by speaking first TO Him about unbelieving men rather than speaking first ABOUT Him to unbelieving men.

Life is more fun when you open your mouth.

God's Word does not merely impart information; it actually creates life. It's not only descriptive; it's effective too, God speaking is God acting.

Conscience is no more than the dead speaking to us.

But when one believes that you've been appointed by God for a particular mission in history, you have to be very careful about that, how you speak about that. Where is the self-reflection in that? Where is the humility in that?

Perhaps you don't see yourself in animation," he said with a smile. "It's true your features are quite ordinary, but they become lively when you talk and you have what are called 'speaking eyes.' They shine with the light of your quick mind.

We can hear a wider range of frequencies than we can speak, but the frequencies to which the external auditory canal are most sensitive lie roughly int he middle of our hearing range, around 1000-3000 Hz. In other words, at normal volume, we detect the middle frequencies more easily than the high ones. In this way human beings have developed the most favourable capacities for speaking to and hearing each other.

As I travel across the country speaking about MS, perhaps I can offer others comfort and hope.

Lacan wrote about two levels of speaking, one in which we know what we are saying (even when struggling with something difficult or contradictory) and another in which we have no idea of what we are saying. In this second level of speaking there are repeating words, phrases, and even sounds that function as magnets of unconscious meaning, condensing multiple scenes, times, and ideas. He called such markers in speech 'signifiers.

I still get invitations from all over Europe to speak at dinners, and it's an honour that promoters and charities can use me to create income.

I want to advance myself in some areas. I want to go into broadcasting, be a boxing commentator and still get to travel, and I want to take courses so I can speak better. I want to take courses in business and promotion.