Speech Marks Quotes

#1. Abstaining from speech marks him who is obeying the spontaneity of his nature.

Lao-Tzu

#2. Valium rubs out speech marks and pops thought-bubbles.

David Mitchell

#3. It was one of those dangerous moments when speech is at once sincere and deceptive - when feeling, rising high above its average depth, leaves flood-marks which are never reached again.

George Eliot

#4. It seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does not change the world and if it does, then only temporarily.

Martin Scorsese

#5. Stop being conned by the old mantra that says, 'Leaders are cool, managers are dweebs.' Instead, follow the Peters Principle: Leaders are cool. Managers are cool too!

Tom Peters

#6. Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.

Henry Ward Beecher

#7. If God brings you to it ... He will see you through it.

Timothy Pina

#8. The one thing I think you must do is, as painful as it is as a parent, is listen.

Tea Leoni

#9. Make it your goal to employ the sweet speech that marks you as a wife after God's own heart.

Elizabeth George

#10. On any given night - there are nights that you feel better. There are nights that you are vocally better. There are nights that you are not as vocally good. No question about it.

Wayne Newton

#11. The past guarantees you nothing in the future if the rules change.

Joel A. Barker

#12. Marks on paper are free - free speech - press - pictures all go together I suppose.

Georgia O'Keeffe

#13. New Yorkers, I figured, just pretended to be unfriendly.

Jeannette Walls

#14. We're always experiencing joy or sadness. But there are lots of people who've closed down. And there are times in one's life when one has to close down just to regroup.

Leonard Cohen

#15. I want to rip off your logic and make passionate sense to you. I want to ride in the swing of your hips. My fingers will dig in you like quotation marks, blazing your limbs into parts of speech.

Jeffrey McDaniel

#16. The whole life of instinct serves the one end of bringing about death.

Sigmund Freud

#17. I realized how subversive Ruth was then, not because she drew pictures of nude women that got misused by her peers, but because she was more talented than her teachers. She was the quietest kind of rebel. Helpless, really.

Alice Sebold

#18. A lot of people say I wouldn't have a down day, but you look at the music and there's real melancholy.

Stephan Jenkins

#19. I was a big wrestling fan growing up. That was my thing. I had the action figures and the magazines and everything like that.

Stephen Amell

#20. Your stupidity is appalling!"
"Most stupidity is!

Charles M. Schulz

#21. We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.

Henry David Thoreau