#embassy

We speak now or I do, and others do. You've never spoken before. You will. You'll be able to say how the city is a pit and a hill and a standard and an animal that hunts and a vessel on the sea and the sea and how we are fish in it, not like the man who swims weekly with fish but the fish with which he swims, the water, the pool. I love you, you light me, warm me, you are suns. You have never spoken before. ↗

— China Miéville

#embassytown #language #lies-that-speak-truth #metaphors #similes

The question really is how do we get Embassy Officers into the minds of the American business community. That is a much more difficult task than understanding a statistical matrix. ↗

— Lawrence Eagleburger

#business #business community #community #difficult #difficult task

Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying because she's had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#comes #crying #diplomacy #disperse #embassy

My family moved - first to Washington, D.C., and then, in the spring of 1975, to Lebanon, where my father worked as a diplomat at the American embassy. My parents were enthusiastic about the move, so my older brother and I felt like we were off to some place kind of cool. ↗

— Greg Kinnear

#american #brother #cool #diplomat #embassy

I visited the compound of the American embassy and talked to the police and the people and encouraged them, and I told them to take the proper measure and apply the law against the people who are attacking them and attacking the buildings. ↗

— Hesham Qandil

#american #apply #attacking #buildings #compound

What if the invasion forces will not leave our lands? What if the U.S. forces and others stay in our beloved lands? What if their companies and embassy headquarters will continue to exist with the American flags hoisted on them? Will you be silent? Will you overlook this? ↗

— Muqtada al Sadr

#beloved #companies #continue #embassy #exist

That was Embassy Pictures, they went bankrupt shortly after This is Spinal Tap came out. ↗

— Harry Shearer

#bankrupt #came #embassy #out #pictures

This is the most terrible thing that can happen in a friendly country if Thai people have to escape from the backdoor of an embassy. ↗

— Thaksin Shinawatra

#country #embassy #escape #friendly #happen

I work a seventeen hour day, and I'm personally responsible for 108 staff members in the embassy. ↗

— Shirley Temple

#embassy #hour #i #members #personally

Americans who may be going to the largest embassy we've ever had. ↗