Quotes of: Strictly-speaking Keyword

Silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking. This is the great paradox.

The Notebook

Most of the time we are so busy letting our actions speak for us that nobody can hear our words.

One Minute Thoughts: A Daily Devotional

In these times I don't, in a manner of speaking, know what I want; perhaps I don't want what I know and want what I don't know.

The Letters of Marsilio Ficino, Vol. 3

The time will come when you will doubt everything you stand for, but you must push forward and never stop. Do not let others speak for you, or you will lose your voice forever.” ~The Grimoire

Lichgates

... the Iroquois take dreams very seriously. They see them as the secret wishes of the soul--the heart's desire, so to speak. Not all dreams, maybe, but the important ones. [p.254]

The Lake of Dreams

The Written Word is a Fairy, as mocking and elusive as Willy Wisp, speaking lying words to us in a feigned voice. So let all readers of books take warning!

Lud-in-the-Mist

Let him be fifty feet away, let him not even speak to you, let him not even see you, he permeated, he prevailed, he imposed himself. He changed everything.

To the Lighthouse

Argot is both a literary and a social phenomenon. What is argot, properly speaking? Argot is the language of misery.

Les Misérables, tome I/3

I have always been on speaking terms with God, especially now. God and I just had a few weeks of silence. 'Tis over now.

For Love or Loyalty

Oh, was that what you meant? I figured you were speaking of your manner of whoring. I should have known you were wanting to fuck me too.

Lover Undefined

You consider me for a moment, perhaps balancing the weight of your fear against the loneliness you will later feel in your room if you do not speak now

Letters From Yelena

Artistic symbols and myths speak out of the primordial, preconscious realm of the mind which is powerful and chaotic. Both symbol and myth are ways of bringing order and form into this chaos.

My Quest for Beauty

I see again my schoolroom in Vyra, the blue roses of the wallpaper, the open window.… Everything is as it should be, nothing will ever change, nobody will ever die.

Speak, Memory

And this right here is what love is. It’s not hurried and rushed, not lies and deceit. It’s tender and giving, honest and trusting. It’s the value of actions speaking louder than words.

Smoldering

How small the cosmos (a kangaroo's pouch would hold it), how paltry and puny in comparison to human consciousness, to a single individual recollection, and its expression in words!

Speak, Memory

Why can’t car washes be giant waterslides for cars? Speaking of fun, why can’t sex be fun, rather than something you begrudgingly pay for, like taxes.

Sleepwalking is restercise

It is not courage that makes us speak the truth, but it is a hunger for truth that makes us courageous

The Success Genome Unravelled: Turning Men from Rot to Rock

She heard him speak, but did not recognise the problem in his voice – only later did she realise it was that thing he’d been concealing – known as guilt.

Sleeping with the Sun

All photos speak a thousand words. This one contained a library.

Steam Drills, Treadmills and Shooting Stars - a story of our times -

Just once, he looks back at Arsay, and I feel like an entire encyclopedia of information and words is exchanged between them. I wish I could speak telepathy too.

Sveta

Invent nothing, deny nothing, speak up, stand up, stay out of school.

True and False: Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor