Famous Quotes & Sayings

August Wilhelm von Schlegel

Literature is the immortality of speech.

Dennis Miller

Of course, that's just my opinion. I could be wrong.

Jane Austen

I cannot make speeches, Emma...If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am. You hear nothing but truth from me. I have blamed you, and lectured you, and you have borne it as no other woman in England would have borne it.

Alan Lightman

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

Edward Norton

Unpopular speech is absolutely vital to the health of our nation.

Carl Clinton Van Doren

The most familiar quotations are the most likely to be misquoted. Some misquotations are still variable, some have settled down to false versions that have obscured the true ones. They have passed over from literature into speech.

Camille Paglia

If someone offends you by speech, you must learn to defend yourself by speech.

Bill Peterson

I used to have this slight speech implement and couldn't remember things before I took the Sam Carnegie course.

Anthony Trollope

Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.

David Hume

All power, even the most despotic, rests ultimately on opinion.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I genuinely don't know Julian Assange well. To authenticate an opinion, I really would have to meet him.

Diana Gabaldon

I swore an oath before the altar of God to protect this woman. And if you're tellin' me that ye consider your own authority to be greater than that of the Almighty, then I must inform ye that I'm not of that opinion, myself.

Alan Dershowitz

In my neighborhood, everyone had an opinion on the local cantor. You didn't go to a synagogue to listen to the rabbi's sermon. You went to listen to the cantor. It was like a concert.

Charles Darwin

I am almost convinced (quite contrary to opinion I started with) that species are not (it is like confessing a murder) immutable.

Tao Lin

I'm not being secretive about anything. I just actually don't have opinions about society.

Arab Proverb

Make sure you have a different opinion and people will talk about you

Karl Lagerfeld

My opinion can be completely different after a show.

Jane Austen

You expect me to account for opinions which you choose to call mine, but which I have never acknowledged.

Wendell Saunders

There are a lot of good courses on the Northwest Side.

Azim Premji

We run courses for government school teachers on Sundays. These teachers pay for their own food and stay; the kind of commitment you find in these people is remarkable.

Greg Fealy

Very few graduates have that combination of skills ... many students are shying away from language courses and travelling to places like Indonesia or Malaysia because of the terror warnings.

Kate Allen

What's particularly interesting is that, while some of the new human rights courses focus narrowly on human rights law, others concentrate on practical skills such as campaigning and lobbying. That's very valuable.

Kevin Drum

Obviously, the first big step was to get the courses open. We've got nearly 90 percent open. I have a big no vacancy sign on the second subject. Obviously, our big issue is rooms.

Peggy Altoff

Philadelphia is unique, in that case. Nationally, what is happening is less emphasis on social-studies courses rather than more.

Paula Creamer

I always wanted to win on a traditional style golf course. It's like the courses I grew up playing in Northern California.

Tony Ramseyer

But it was a good learning experience for our kids. They're going to have to learn how to play different courses to play well.

Ryan Moore

If all the courses we played were 7,500 yards, I could maybe see it happening sometime in the future.