Quotes About Indirect Speech

#1. The problem posed by indirect speech acts is the problem of how it is possible for the speaker to say one thing and mean that but also to mean something else.

John Searle

#2. It's time to give back; you know, I've lived in this beautiful world of fashion for so long, and it's time to really get my hands dirty and get in the trenches and see the world for what it really is.

Karen Elson

#3. By engaging in a delusive quest for happiness, we bring only suffering upon ourselves. In our frantic search for something to quench our thirst, we overlook the water all around us and drive ourselves into exile from our own lives.

Sharon Salzberg

#4. When the government runs out of lenders, it can do something that households are forbidden to do: print money.

P. J. O'Rourke

#5. I'm a Words With Friends dork!

Spencer Kayden

#6. I have no doubt that Jesus would actually practice the neighborliness he preached rather than following our example of religious supremacy, hostility, fear, isolation, misinformation, exclusion, or demonization.

Brian D. McLaren

#7. Either help or give up. Right now devil's advocate is just another name for asshole.

James S.A. Corey

#8. To be rhymed to death as is said to be done in Ireland.

Philip Sidney

#9. A German goldsmith covered a bit of metal with cloth in the 14th century and gave mankind its first button. It was hard to know this as politics, because it plays like the work of one person, but nothing is isolated in history
certain humans are situations.

Lyn Hejinian

#10. In high school, sometimes you just can't help who you have a crush on and who you fall for! If you fall for one of your friend's exes, for example, it's really all about communication and telling your friend. Hiding it is never a good thing.

Jillian Rose Reed

#11. Each of us has a vital role to play in building a world in which the government and technology serve the world's people and not the other way around.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#12. For Pan! Grover rushed in from the right. He threw his sheep bone, which bounced harmlessly off the monster's forehead.

Rick Riordan

#13. My songs have a lot going on in them -they're packed with sounds. When I have only three or four minutes to capture something, I guess I can't stand the idea of any bar going unloved.

Imogen Heap

#14. I know of no other advice than this: Go within and scale the depths of your being from which your very life springs forth.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#15. I took several years of dance lessons that included ballet, tap and jazz. They helped a great deal with body control, balance, a sense of rhythm, and timing.

Lynn Swann