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Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about admiration

Yeah, I did see where the people dissing me were coming from. But, it's like, anything that happened in the past between black and white, I can't really speak on it, because I wasn't there. I don't feel like me being born the color I am makes me...

Quote by Eminem about people, magic, past, being

I unfortunately don't speak French, but my wife is now fluent in English, which really reflects rather badly on me.

Quote by Sean Connery about wife

When you hear someone from the very north of Scotland speaking, I think its nice, very musical and harmonious.

Quote by Sean Connery about contentment

Of course, everything is not perfect. We see high unemployment and low productivity growth, but these are (as previous speakers have emphasized) the result of poor structural policies rather than inappropriate monetary policy.

Quote by Martin Feldstein about perfection

Moss Hart gave me advice. That advice was, When you step on stage the first time, speak your first words clearly. You can mumble the rest of the play, but the audience will be sure that they can hear you.

Quote by Peter Fonda about advice, rest, word, contentment, time

All my children have spoken for themselves since they first learned to speak, and not always with my advance approval, and I expect that to continue in the future.

Quote by Gerald R. Ford about future, children

Meaning that if you live in the moment, so to speak, we play today, and tonight we're done.

Quote by Alex Van Halen about moment, contentment

Take the word of experience, I speak the truth: inaction is safest in danger.

Quote by Silius Italicus about danger, word, experience, truth

I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about man, people

In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about order, truth, man

Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.

Quote by Joseph Joubert about grace, beauty, feelings

All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.

Quote by Juvenal about wish, knowledge

Writers speak stench.

Quote by Franz Kafka about writers

If a man speaks deep in the forest and there is no woman there to hear him; is he still wrong.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about love, bad, woman, man

A meeting's length will be directly proportional to the boredom the speaker produces.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about meetings, boredom

When speaking to the school psychologist, the teacher will say: weirdo rather than emotionally disturbed.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about education, teachers, school

The likelihood that you are speaking to an undercover law enforcement officer, is directly proportional to the number of personal questions being asked of you.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about police, numbers, law, being, contentment

The louder you speak and the more you repeat something is inversely proportional to the amount of information taken in.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about contentment

If you get used to thinking screw you after every superior speaks to you you will blurt it out sooner or later. Unless you're a phone sex girl or a stripper people will mind.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about contentment, thinking, sex, mind, people