"The time-deaf are unable to speak what they know. For speech needs a sequence of words, spoken in time."

-- Alan Lightman

#Needs Quotes #Speech Quotes #Speak Quotes

“A book's alright when the weather's foul and there's nothing else to do, but why sit and read when the wind is calling your name?”
“Public school - where the human mind is drilled and manipulated into submission to various social and moral spooks, and thus fitted to continue our system of exploitation and oppression.”

Source : Emma Goldman, Candace Falk, Barry Pateman, Jessica M. Moran (2004). “Emma Goldman: Making speech free, 1902-1909”, p.238, Univ of California Press
“Generalizations, like brooms, ought not to stand in a corner forever; they ought to sweep as a matter of course.”

Source : John Lukacs (1990). “Confessions of an original sinner”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)
“Music is much more of a multimedia sort of thing than I expected.”
“If you speak up online and your ideas have currency, people are going to show up and want to connect with you. What we need more of are people with the guts and emotional labour to do this. The greatest shortage in today's society is an instinct to produce.”
“The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.”

Source : Benjamin Spock, M.D. (2012). “Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care, 9th Edition”, p.580, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
“Perhaps we could revisit the issue of World Cup Host selection for 2018/2022 as some countries feel, and we did say, they are more suitable. Russia was the only high risk location for 2018 and racial chanting is rife there but a Mr. R. Abramovich paid a significant fee to fund the voting proceedings and, not to be discriminatory, we would have to see the same thing from any England/Spain representatives wishing to have another vote.”
“I was born in North London in 1947. I didn't learn to read until I was almost 8-partly bad schooling, and partly I suspect slight dyslexic problems. My father, driven mad by this, taught me to read. At 9 I began writing.”

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