"For some time its been my habit to use images when preparing a speech: rather than write it down, I illustrate it."

-- Dario Fo

#Writing Quotes #Use Quotes #Speech Quotes

“Sanctification is like a clumsy, slow walk rather than a light switch that we turn from off to on.”
“When he asked my grandmother if she would mind being poor, she said she would be happy just to have her daughter and himself: 'If you have love, even plain water is sweet.”

Source : Jung Chang (2008). “Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China”, p.38, Simon and Schuster
“I feel that a lot of British comedy is often too bombastic, too obvious, dressing up and shouting and pulling funny faces.”
“Social intercourse, even friendship among most people, is a merely a business arrangement that lasts only so long as there is need.”
“Within 2 years Im predicting...that youre going to see a suitcase nuke in this country. Youre probably going to see a release in a few years of something communicable. & I am predicting that you will see a lot of conventional bombings...in the next year or so.”
“Armaments; extremely useful for fighting wars, a deadweight in any civil economy.”
“One of the things that often gets lost in discussions of depression is that you know it's ridiculous. You know it's ridiculous while you're experiencing it. You know that most people manage to listen to their messages, and eat lunch, and organise themselves to take a shower and go out the front door, and that it's not a big deal. And yet you are nonetheless in its grip and you are unable to figure out any way around it.”
“A new wound makes all the old ones ache again.”

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