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It can be a bit irritating when someone asks me how the new film's coming along when I haven't worked on Harry Potter for two years. Generally speaking, I have no problem with it. Most actors go through their careers without ever being involved in something so spectacular, so I think it would be a bit ignorant of me to object to being associated with it. Harry Potter is an amazing thing. I'm not just being diplomatic here either. I'm still reminded regularly of what a unique experience it was. – Sean Biggerstaff	added by anonymous 10 years ago
One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite. – Jorge Luis Borges	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Man does not speak because he thinks; he thinks because he speaks. Or rather, speaking is no different than thinking: to speak is to think. – Octavio Paz	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Public speaking is done in the public tongue, the national or tribal language; and the language of our tribe is the men's language. Of course women learn it. We're not dumb. If you can tell Margaret Thatcher from Ronald Reagan, or Indira Gandhi from General Somoza, by anything they say, tell me how. This is a man's world, so it talks a man's language. – Ursula K. Le Guin	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Oysters speaking doesn't give a pearl. (Les huîtres qui parlent n'ont pas de perle) – Charles de LEUSSE	added by anonymous 12 years ago
To abstain from speaking is regarded as very difficult. It is not possible to say much that is valuable and striking.* – Mahabharata	added by anonymous 12 years ago
The attribute most noble of the hand Is readiness in giving; of the head, Bending before a teacher; of the mouth, Veracious speaking; of a victor?s arms, Undaunted valour; of the inner heart, Pureness the most unsullied; of the ears, Delight in hearing and receiving truth?These are adornments of high-minded men, Better than all the majesty of Empire. – Bhartrihari	added by anonymous 12 years ago
If hell uses highly refined uranium and completely pure hydrogen to stoke its fires, the roaring furnaces there will still be too cold for these depraved beings. (Speaking about the leaders of North Korea...) read about it here: http://standfortheright.com/archives/540 – Dan Flikweert	added by anonymous 12 years ago
Interrupt your own speaking with your own actions." – Steve Maraboli	added by anonymous 13 years ago
When your intent and your actions are aligned, you are speaking directly to God." – Steve Maraboli	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death. – Miyamoto Musashi, 1645	added by anonymous 13 years ago
When anyone asks me how I can best describe my experience in nearly forty years at sea, I merely say, uneventful. Of course there have been winter gales, and storms and fog and the like. But in all my experience, I have never been in any accident... or any sort worth speaking about. I have seen but one vessel in distress in all my years at sea. I never saw a wreck and never have been wrecked nor was I ever in any predicament that threatened to end in disaster of any sort. – E. J. Smith, 1907, Captain, RMS Titanic	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Darling: the popular form of address used in speaking to a person of the opposite sex whose name you cannot at the moment recall – Oliver Herford	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I have the distinction of speaking to you from one of the few countries that still has a communist party. – Dennis Miller, MCing the 1991 Emmies	added by anonymous 13 years ago
We have come through a strange cycle in programming, starting with the creation of programming itself as a human activity. Executives with the tiniest smattering of knowledge assume that anyone can write a program, and only now are programmers beginning to win their battle for recognition as true professionals. Not just anyone, with any background, or any training, can do a fine job of programming. Programmers know this, but then why is it that they think that anyone picked off the street can do documentation? One has only to spend an hour looking at papers written by graduate students to realize the extent to which the ability to communicate is not universally held. And so, when we speak about computer program documentation, we are not speaking about the psychology of computer programming at all - except insofar as programmers have the illusion that anyone can do a good job of documentation, provided he is not smart enough to be a programmer. – Gerald Weinberg, "The Psychology of Computer Programming"	added by anonymous 13 years ago
There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men understand that they will not offend you by speaking the truth; but when everyone can tell you the truth, you lose their respect. – Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I can honestly say to you, slaves of the press, that if I had as many love affairs as you have given me credit for, I would now be speaking to you from a jar at the Harvard Medical School. – Frank Sinatra	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is the resolute acceptance of death. – Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Rings	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Who can tell who will be the President a year from now? -- John F. Kennedy, speaking to the president of Harvard about why he did not want to delay signing documents relating to a future JFK Presidential Library, 2 October 1963. – John F. Kennedy, "A Thousand Days," by Arthur Schlesinger Jr. [1965]	added by anonymous 13 years ago
To be listened to is, generally speaking, a nearly unique experience for most people. It is enormously stimulating. It is small wonder that people who have been demanding all their lives to be heard so often fall speechless when confronted with one who gravely agrees to lend an ear. Man clamors for the freedom to express himself and for knowing that he counts. But once offered these conditions, he becomes frigthened. – Robert C. Murphy	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The failure of the mind in old age is often less the results of natural decay, than of disuse. Ambition has ceased to operate; contentment bring indolence, and indolence decay of mental power, ennui, and sometimes death. Men have been known to die, literally speaking, of disease induced by intellectual vacancy. – Sir B. Brodie	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says, "there is not only an art, but an eloquence in it." A well bred woman may easily and effectually promote the most useful and elegant conversation without speaking a word. The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence. – Tom Blair	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I could have spoken from Rhode Island where I have been staying ... But I felt that, in speaking from the house of Lincoln, of Jackson, and of Wilson, my words would better convey both the sadness I feel in the action I was compelled today to make and the firmness with which I intend to pursue this course until the orders of the federal court at Little Rock can be executed without unlawful interference. (On sending troops to enforce integration in Little Rock AR High School) – Dwight D Eisenhower	added by anonymous 14 years ago
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	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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