Nonspeaking Quotes

#1. Why is there such a gap between nonspeaking animals and speaking man, when there is no other such gap in nature?

Walker Percy

#2. Twenty years earlier, in a life [Kirsten] mostly couldn't remember, she had had a small nonspeaking role in a short-lived Toronto production of King Lear. Now she walked in sandals whose soles had been cut from an automobile tire, three knives in her belt.

Emily St. John Mandel

#3. I don't call myself an artist. I act. That's what I do.

Lusia Strus

#4. Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life.

Anne Roiphe

#5. The loss of liberty which must attend being a wife was of all things the most horrible to my imagination.

Sarah Fielding

#6. The aspect of American society is animated, because men and things are always changing; but it is monotonous, because all the changes are alike.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#7. Asking a writer what he thinks about critics is like asking what a fire hydrant feels about dogs.

Ann Landers

#8. People out for posthumous fame forget that the Generations To Come will be the same annoying people they know now.

Marcus Aurelius

#9. In doing your work in the great world, it is a safe plan to follow a rule I once heard on the football field: Don't flinch, don't fall; hit the line hard.

Theodore Roosevelt

#10. See that you do not use the trick of prayer to cover up what you know you ought to do.

Oswald Chambers

#11. Lastly, notice your level of enthusiasm. If you had to decide right now how enthusiastic you are about being a writer, on a scale from one to ten, where one is not at all enthusiastic, and ten is extremely enthusiastic, what is your level of enthusiasm about writing?

Beth Barany

#12. The AIDS epidemic, rather than being a scourge, is a welcome development in the inevitable reduction of human population ... If it didn't exist, radical environmentalists would have to invent it.

David Foreman

#13. If you want to know how little your dignity is worth, take it to the pawnbroker.

Evan Esar

#14. Culture makes lies plausible through exposure to time. It makes prejudice seem like physics intergenerationally. It is therefore the most dangerous opponent of philosophy, because it feels the most credible to the average person.

Stefan Molyneux

#15. Can you ever forgive me? I already have. How could you? I don't deserve it. That's what makes it love.

Richard Paul Evans

#16. I was always interested in animals, but when I was little, animal behavior was still a new science. It was available to become a veterinarian, it was available to study biology, but not specifically animal behavior. In the '60s, Jane Goodall was the founder of this new science.

Isabella Rossellini