I'm an awfully loyal friend. Once I've started a relationship with someone it's like they are syrup and I'm a pancake. Their syrup gets into my pancake so to speak.

The relationship of the toastmaster to speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.

Kids now are so used to surround sound and the power in theater speakers that the concert hall is a disappointment to them.

Before the tongue can speak it must have lost the power to wound.

We should keep silent about those in power to speak well of them almost implies flattery to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous and when they are dead is cowardly.

All human laws are properly speaking only declaratory they have no power over the substance of original justice.

When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out.

I was raised on the values of speaking up and making a positive difference in a very political family that believed in the importance of public service.

Each season I find myself constantly inspired by 'The Biggest Loser' contestants. Their tenacity and willingness to learn new healthy habits is tremendous and the results speak for themselves. I am honored to be part of such an inspiring program that helps inspire positive change in so many lives.

I was raised to speak out about politics and the world around me. I would do it whether I was in the public or not. It is the way I was taught. The American way.

I hate injustice and I can't help but speak against it. But I don't want to get involved in politics.

A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people's lives a politics that does not speak to and include people is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail.

I know many writers who first dictate passages then polish what they have dictated. I speak then I polish - occasionally I do windows.

My father had wanted to name me for Dylan Thomas. He had seen him speak on one of those drunken poetry tours he did.

When I hit a block regardless of what I am writing what the subject matter is or what's going on in the plot I go back and I read Pablo Neruda's poetry. I don't actually speak Spanish so I read it translation. But I always go back to Neruda. I don't know why but it calms me calms my brain.

I certainly can't speak for all cultures or all societies but it's clear that in America poetry serves a very marginal purpose. It's not part of the cultural mainstream.

He passes from lyric to epic poetry in order to speak about the world and the torment in the world through man rationally and emotionally. The poet then becomes a danger.