If I ever wrote a book on preaching, it would contain three words: Preach the Word. Get rid of all the other stuff that gets you sidetracked; preach... →
Charles R. Swindoll
I think it is important to begin with a statement in your speech that grabs the attention of the audience. I try to make my opening line 15 words or... →
A translation is no translation, he said, unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it.
John Millington Synge
Take it not amiss, O speech, that I borrow weighty words, and later try hard to make them seem light.
Wislawa Szymborska
I'm fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
A lot of the younger kids now can rap, but they're scared of the crowd. Mastery of that stage is an MC. I don't know if you've seen any... →
Ice T
The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.
Rabindranath Tagore
We are victims of the post-Enlightenment view that the world functions like a sophisticated machine, to be understood like a textbook engineering... →
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
In my mind, numbers and words are far more than squiggles of ink on a page. They have form, color, texture and so on. They come alive to me, which is... →
Daniel Tammet
What I do find surprising is that other people do not think in the same way. I find it hard to imagine a world where numbers and words are not how I... →