Soundly Speaking Quotes

#1. News of the Indian Mutiny had taken forty-six days to reach London in 1857, travelling at an effective speed of 3.8 miles an hour. News of the huge Nobi earthquake in Japan in 1891 took a single day, travelling at 246 miles an hour, sixty-five times faster.50

Niall Ferguson

#2. Some people learn by the mistakes of others, but most of us are the others.

William Prescott

#3. I can never remember being afraid of an audience. If the audience could do better, they'd be up here on stage and I'd be out there watching them.

Ethel Merman

#4. My juices needed restoring. I needed a sabbatical from the record business.

Norman Granz

#5. Mind easily mesmerized when frightened.

Toba Beta

#6. I look at you, angel, and I want you so badly. I want to be with you, listen to you, talk to you. I want to hear you laugh and hold you when you cry. I want to sit next to you, breathe the same air, share the same life. I want to wake up to you like this every day forever. I want you.

Sylvia Day

#7. Fearing servility, people become servile.

Nawal El Saadawi

#8. Every morning is a reason to begin living again ... in case if you have had a good sleep. If not, then begin living again, anyway, and take care of yourself!

Lara Biyuts