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A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man.
Thomas Mann

Once, Less, Mental

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.
Joan of Arc

Truth, Children, Sometimes

I've done a lot of Super Bowls and appeared in a lot of big, big events and places and the Masters and what have you, but there was nothing as intimidating as speaking with Billy Graham.
Pat Summerall

Nothing, Done, Big

One learns more from listening than speaking.And both the wind and the people who continue to live close to nature still have much to tell us which we cannot hear within university walls.
Thor Heyerdahl

Nature, Live, Cannot

I did my first movie, 'The Mambo Kings,' in America without speaking the language. I learned the lines phonetically. I had an interpreter actually just to understand directions from my director.
Antonio Banderas

Understand, America, Learned

In films people basically work for the camera, you know, and that's why actors can hate each other and not be speaking to each other and still look as if they're in love because really they're loving the camera loving them.
Francesca Annis

Love, Work, Hate

I mean, I'm just speaking of my own experiences and my own desires, and it's a kind of a childlike wonder that could really possibly speculate on other dimensions.
Shirley MacLaine

Mean, Wonder, Desires

Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.
Philip James Bailey

Truth, Prayer, Spirit

It is not the intelligent woman v. the ignorant woman; nor the white woman v. the black, the brown, and the red, it is not even the cause of woman v. man. Nay, tis woman's strongest vindication for speaking that the world needs to hear her voice.
Anna Julia Cooper

Woman, Black, Her

I'm not speaking as someone who has reached satori or anything else. I'm a student.
Sting

Someone, Else, Student

When I went to Los Angeles right after high school, I got some acting jobs, and I never, ever wanted to be an actress! Public speaking and acting make me want to vomit. But I have never been nervous singing. When it comes to public speaking, I stumble on my words, sweat, and pull at my clothes.
Kelly Clarkson

School, Words, After

My main concern with the condition of mathematics in high school is that there's a lot of fear involved! Math is not, generally speaking, presented in a fun way. The concepts, as I see them, are fun, and that's the way I'd like to convey them myself.
Danica McKellar

Fear, School, Fun

Speaking of Twitter, I don't even know if I composed a blog entry in 2009, as I was too busy parceling my every thought into cute 140-character sound bites. I used to only worry about being pithy for a living; now some of my best lines are wasted on a free app!
Diablo Cody

Best, Busy, Thought

I find myself going to places where I really have no business, speaking to these people in a whole other field that I have no extensive knowledge of. But I do it very often because it scares me.
Alan Alda

Business, Knowledge, Find

On stage, generally speaking, the story is stopped or held back by songs, because that's the convention. Audiences enjoy the song and the singer, that's the point.
Stephen Sondheim

Enjoy, Song, Point

I think I'm a bit less inhibited, and not thinking too much before speaking. It's not about being shameful, I'm just a bit more unabashedly myself because of this thing, and it probably started at age 15. I can be around people and say what I think without fear.
Kristen Stewart

Age, Fear, Thinking

I worked on my voice for Sweet Dreams, but only to match my speaking voice to Patsy's actual singing voice. That was my way into that character.
Jessica Lange

Dreams, Character, Sweet

Put a bridle on thy tongue; set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy thy peace... on much speaking cometh repentance, but in silence is safety.
William Drummond

Peace, Silence, Words

The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is.
Susan Sontag

Truth, Writing, Known

As for the extraordinary operations of the Holy Ghost, such as working of miracles, or speaking with divers kinds of tongues, they are long since ceased.
George Whitefield

Long, Working, Holy

If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.
John Updike

Money, Men, Children

French is a foreign language, but I've been speaking it since I was 18 so it's second nature to me.
Kristin Scott Thomas

Nature, Since, Language

When I speak English, I've been told, I have this patrician way of speaking that's very irritating. It's the whole class thing.
Kristin Scott Thomas

Speak, Whole, English

I was the guy who was constantly speaking out against the Vietnam War. I have no regrets about that.
George McGovern

War, Against, Regrets

Biologically speaking, if something bites you it's more likely to be female.
Desmond Morris

Likely, Female, Bites

I have my moments, but generally speaking I shy away from being too lovey dovey.
Katherine Heigl

Away, Moments, Shy

But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective.
Rowan Atkinson

Quiet, Tend, Generally

What I say should always be prefaced with this: I'm not really politically articulate. I just try to be like Thomas Paine: what is common sense? So when I say these things to you, I am speaking from a humanist point of view. I just look around and see what's wrong.
Patti Smith

Try, Wrong, Around

So I got home, and the phone was ringing. I picked it up, and said 'Who's speaking please?' And a voice said 'You are.'
Tim Vine

Home, Said, Voice

I used to feel so shy speaking to girls. It was even worse when they were around their crew because they would diss me.
Chris Brown

Around, Used, Worse

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