Speak Properly Quotes

#1. I am teaching Perry grammar. He says he wants to learn to speak properly. I told him he should not call his Aunt Tom an old beast but he said he had to because she wasn't a young beast.

L.M. Montgomery

#2. Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.

William Penn

#3. For the Rays, to speak properly, have no Colour. In them there is nothing else than a certain power and disposition to stir up a sensation of this Colour or that.

Isaac Newton

#4. I had this terrible stammer, so I couldn't really speak properly until I was 16 or 17.

Carly Simon

#5. I am one of your biggest fans (Barack Obama), if not the biggest, and have been since the inception of your campaign ... It would be wonderful if we were able to give this man all of the power that he needs to pass the things that he needs to pass ... You're so handsome that I can't speak properly.

Gwyneth Paltrow

#6. I put my foot in my mouth more than I speak properly.

Scott Adsit

#7. Nor do they speak properly who say that time consumeth all things; for time is not effective, nor are bodies destroyed by it.

Thomas Browne

#8. Of Paradise I cannot speak properly, for I have not been there; and that I regret.

John Mandeville

#9. My mother taught me everything I know; how to speak properly, posture, enunciation.

Jonathan Krohn

#10. A man of fashion never has recourse to proverbs, and vulgar aphorisms; uses neither favourite words nor hard words, but takes great care to speak very correctly and grammatically, and to pronounce properly; that is, according to the usage of the best companies.

Lord Chesterfield

#11. Kind of prayer we here speak of as properly "monastic" (though it may also fit into the life of any lay person who is attracted to it) is a prayer of silence, simplicity, contemplative and meditative unity, a deep personal integration in an attentive, watchful listening of "the heart.

Thomas Merton

#12. I always find that after reading books written by Jane Austen that I speak much more properly, at least for a while.

Becky Watson

#13. The Kiril Islands had changed hands more times than a good coin in a whorehouse.

Jaida Jones

#14. It takes two years on the stage for an actor or an actress to learn how to speak correctly and to manage his voice properly, and it takes about ten years to master the subtle art of being able to hold one's audience.

D.W. Griffith

#15. A lot of actors say that theater's the thing for them. And that's great, and I'm not one to speak with any authority about it because of not having done it properly. For me, movies are what I love.

Christian Bale

#16. Innocence of eye has a quality of its own. It means to see as a child sees, with freshness and acknowledgment of the wonder; it also means to see as an adult sees who has gone full circle and once again sees as a child - with freshness and an even deeper sense of wonder.

Minor White

#17. Musical ability is not an inborn talent but an ability which can be developed. Any child who is properly trained can develop musical ability just as all children develop the ability to speak their mother tongue. The potential of every child is unlimited.

Shinichi Suzuki

#18. Natural, organic and unrefined foods speak a language your genes understand. And when your food communicates nicely with your genes, they'll express themselves properly and healthily so you can begin feeling that you're actually living and not just surviving.

Thorbjorg Hafsteinsdottir

#19. The heart does heal and you will love like this again ... only when you do, you will deny you ever felt like this before.

Anonymous

#20. As for the world of fashion and celebrity, I have the usual interest in the human comedy, but the problems of depiction absorb me more.

David Hockney

#21. I am in constant search for that project that speaks to me personally. And when all the pieces come together properly, it'll happen.

Nia Long

#22. I want a strong border. I do want a wall. Walls do work, you just have to speak to the folks in Israel. Walls work if they're properly constructed. I know how to build, believe me, I know how to build.

Donald Trump

#23. The only way to learn a language properly, in fact, is to marry a man of that nationality. You get what they call in Europe a 'sleeping dictionary.' Of course, I have only been married five times, and I speak seven languages. I'm still trying to remember where I picked up the other two.

Zsa Zsa Gabor

#24. We speak of profane arts; but there are none properly such; every art is holy in itself; it is the son of Eternal Light.

Esaias Tegner

#25. Untuck your shirt, wipe, retuck. No one will see. Otherwise they're gonna crust on your hand like wood glue." This is Booger Training 101. Every two-year-old who doesn't have a taste for them has to learn how to properly dispose of them.

Mick Bogerman

#26. As children, we come into the world with a natural desire to both speak and draw. Society makes sure that we learn language properly, right from the beginning, but art is treated as a gift of innate genius, something we either have or don't.

Charles De Lint

#27. You know a trillion times more about art than me. But I've learned that it isn't necessary to know all that much. You just make what you wanna see, right? It's a game, right? It's like being paid for dreaming.

Tom Robbins

#28. In the supposed state of nature, all men are equally bound by the laws of nature, or to speak more properly, the laws of the Creator.

Samuel

#29. And now you see why some facts, some pieces of knowledge, have to be snuffed out as soon as they form. Curiosity would blow across such embers and burn this silo to the ground.

Hugh Howey

#30. Whenever you feel superior or inferior to anyone, that's the ego in you.

Eckhart Tolle

#31. I used to go to a Gaelic class on a Saturday morning, but I never felt myself that I could speak it properly.

Johann Lamont

#32. If you don't think you have enough problems, you should acquire a mammal in Sweden just hours before you're about to fly home to the other side of the world, and then insist that the animal must come along in your luggage.

Jonas Jonasson

#33. This was a place where tattoos outnumbered teeth.

Harlan Coben

#34. Perhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there is someone there to see us existing, we cannot properly speak until there is someone who can understand what we are saying in essence, we are not wholly alive until we are loved.

Alain De Botton

#35. Luz's manner of speaking made it clear that she had no idea what she might say next. It wasn't that she made things up, strictly speaking
only that facts were merely a point of departure for her.

Daniel Alarcon