Quotes About Speaking Rudely

#1. They spoke politely and with deference to the adults, whereas it went against my nature not to speak plainly. To many people speaking plainly is the same as speaking rudely. Whereas to me, if one was direct, it saved time and misunderstanding.

Theresa Breslin

#2. And apparently things like a Vindaloo curry are out for the rest of my life, or at least a long time.

Lara St. John

#3. The success of the movie industry comes from the story. And the story comes from somebody putting something down on paper.

Dan Glickman

#4. The great spirals ... apparently lie outside our stellar system.

Edwin Powell Hubble

#5. As Hurston herself noted, "Roll your eyes in ecstasy and ape his every move, but until we have placed something upon his street corner that is our own, we are right back where we were when they filed our iron collar off.

Zora Neale Hurston

#6. The poison by which the weaker nature is destroyed is strengthening to the strong individual-and he does not call it poison.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#7. What the wise seek is in themselves

Confucius

#8. If you had told me at 45 years old that I would have to go on tour to get rest, I would've said, 'That's not how it works.' But nothing can be more gratifying. I'm a very hands-on dad.

Chris Robinson

#9. His eyes were eggs of unstable crystal, vibrating with a frequency whose name was rain and the sound of trains, suddenly sprouting a humming forest of hair-fine glass spines.

William Gibson

#10. She rubbed her cheek on his chest like a sleepy cat. "I like when you hold me."
Dios, she was going to break his heart. "I like when I hold you too.

Cherise Sinclair

#11. Silence is no certain token that no secret grief is there; Sorrow which is never spoken is the heaviest load to bear.

Frances Ridley Havergal

#12. It's as if there's a fumble-fingered but powerful universal force at work, always trying to put wrong things right.

Stephen King

#13. I'm Welsh. We didn't do 'Peter Pan.' We have far more ancient legends to be put to sleep with.

Rhys Ifans

#14. A protest meeting on the issue of environmental abuse is not a convocation of accusers, it is a convocation of the guilty. The realization ought to clear the smog of self-righteousness that has always conventionally hovered over these occasions, and let us see the work that is to be done.

Wendell Berry

#15. In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing of beauty.

Seamus Heaney