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Quotes About Message

When the messenger won't tell you what the hell the message is, my trigger finger gets twitchy. Dismissed.
~ Orson Scott Card
Do not shout at me, Mr. Quill, said John [Adams]. Justice may be blind, but she is not deaf.
~ Orson Scott Card
What did this portend? He still breathed, the instruments did not change, his heart beat on. But he called to Peter. Did this mean that he longed to live the life of his child of the mind, Young Peter? Or in some kind of delirium was he speaking to his brother the Hegemon? Or earlier, his brother as a boy. Peter, wait for me. Peter, did I do well? Peter, don't hurt me. Peter, I hate you. Peter for one smile of yours I'd die or kill. What was his message?
~ Orson Scott Card
Yesterday someone sent a message that was signed GOD," Bernard said. "Really?" said Dap. "I didn't know he was signed onto the system.
~ Orson Scott Card
Together they read the message. COVER YOUR BUTT. BERNARD IS WATCHING. —GOD Bernard went red with anger. "Who did this!" he shouted. "God," said Shen.
~ Orson Scott Card
Marching constantly around every boy's desk was this message: I LOVE YOUR BUTT. LET ME KISS IT. —BERNARD "I didn't write that message!" Bernard shouted.
~ Orson Scott Card
We pray for a messenger from God—who knows but what the messenger also prayed for a place to take his message?
~ Orson Scott Card
Then she gave one last burst of music. The white Moon heard it, and she forgot the dawn, and lingered on in the sky. The red rose heard it, and it trembled all over with ecstasy, and opened its petals to the cold morning air. Echo bore it to her purple cavern in the hills, and woke the sleeping shepherds from their dreams. It floated through the reeds of the river, and they carried its message to the sea.
~ Oscar Wilde
That's what the movies do. They don't entertain us, they don't send the message: 'We care.' They give us lines to say, they assign us parts: John Wayne, Theda Bara, Shirley Temple, take your pick.
~ Connie Willis
I think literature totally fails when it has an agenda. - From an interview on the podcast Starship Sofa, December 2010.
~ Connie Willis
Do it on the radio." —Educating Rita Saved
~ Connie Willis
a bland Jesus who simply told people to look at the lilies of the field - such a Jesus would threaten no one, just as the university professors who created him threaten no one.
~ Craig S. Keener
He didn't put it in these terms, and I'm not even sure if he knew this was what he was saying, but his message was: Act like a guy. It was a message that turned out to be invaluable.
~ Curtis Sittenfeld
There is only one excuse for a speaker's asking the attention of his audience: he must have either truth or entertainment for them.
~ Dale Carnegie
Good speakers usually find when they finish that there have been four versions of the speech: the one they delivered, the one they prepared, the one the newspapers say was delivered, and the one on the way home they wish they had delivered.
~ Dale Carnegie
Maltoni concludes her thoughts on the success of TOMS with an insightful nod to the power of this principle: "People remember. And when a message is a mission, they will tell your story to anyone who will hear it—even a stranger at an airport. And by doing that, they become your strongest advocates in marketing your product. . . . The lesson: influence is given."5
~ Dale Carnegie
People remember. And when a message is a mission, they will tell your story to anyone who will hear it—even a stranger at an airport.
~ Dale Carnegie
If you can't write your message in a sentence, you can't say it in an hour. – Dianna Booher
~ Dale Carnegie
He would not Africanize America, for America has too much to teach the world and Africa. He would not bleach his Negro soul in a flood of white Americanism, for he knows that Negro blood has a message for the world.
~ W.E.B. Du Bois
Alex Haley once said that the best way to begin a speech is "Let me tell you a story." Nobody is eager for a lecture, but everybody loves a story.
~ Walter Isaacson
there, so Jobs left a message asking him to come to dinner the following evening. He would also invite the
~ Walter Isaacson
Theology is not superior to the Gospel. It exists to aid the preaching of salvation. Its business is to make the essential facts and principles of Christianity so simple and clear, so adequate and mighty, that all who preach or teach the Gospel, both ministers and laymen, can draw on its stores and deliver a complete and unclouded Christian message.
~ Walter Rauschenbusch
They say that a lady's mind is always expressed in her postscript, so I would have you think that the most important part of your commission lies in what I have last said to you.
~ Walter Scott
Predicar la Cruz es relativamente fácil, pero ser una persona crucificada que predica la Cruz no es tan fácil.
~ Watchman Nee