Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shakespeare

First Witch He knows thy thought: Hear his speech, but say thou nought.

Mick Jagger

I am not very conscious of the figures of speech that I use.

Marla Miller

I'm speechless - it's better than we had hoped.

Jean de La Fontaine

Socrates, when informed of some derogating speeches one had used concerning him behind his back, made only this facetious reply, "Let him beat me too when I am absent.

Hope Solo

Speech is the image of actions

Horace

When you have well thought out your subject, words will come spontaneously.

Horace

Be modest in speech, but excel in action.

Horace

In laboring to be concise, I become obscure. [Lat., Brevis esse laboro, obscurus fio.]

Jacques Derrida

But can one not conceive of a presence, and of a presence to itself of the subject before speech or signs, a presence to itself of the subject in a silent and intuitive consciousness? Such a question therefore presupposes that, prior to the sign, and outside it, excluding any trace and any différance, something like consciousness is possible.

John Milton

Through the palpable obscure find out / His uncouth way.

Donald Barthelme

I am never needlessly obscure I am needfully obscure, when I am obscure.

Don DeLillo

I've always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that's where I belong, that's where my work belongs.

Stephen Young

We allow words to obscure the interpretation of the deeper meaning.