#peaks

For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#effect #fault #gives #hardly #him

My impression is that American policy speaks not of antagonism but rather partnership. ↗

— Gerhard Schroder

#american policy #antagonism #impression #partnership #policy

I have never quite grasped the worry about the power of the press. After all, it speaks with a thousand voices, in constant dissonance. ↗

— Eric Sevareid

#after #constant #grasped #i #never

So, rap has that quality, for youth anyway; it's a kind of blues element. It's physical, almost gymnastic. It speaks to you organically. Rap grows out of what young people really are today, not only black youth, but white - everybody. ↗

— Archie Shepp

#anyway #black #blues #element #everybody

Never explain what you do. It speaks for itself. You only muddle it by talking about it. ↗

— Shel Silverstein

#explain #itself #muddle #never #never explain

The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten. ↗

— Edith Sitwell

#life #men #other #poet #speaks

When God speaks, oftentimes His voice will call for an act of courage on our part. ↗

— Charles Stanley

#call #courage #god #his #oftentimes

I have a very lively and colourful show. It's two hours of hits and the music speaks for itself. ↗

— Rod Stewart

#hours #i #itself #lively #music

I was very clear that I wanted to keep 'Thor' out of the rest of the Marvel universe for no less than the first six issues. And the success of the book, I think, speaks well to that decision. ↗

— J. Michael Straczynski

#clear #decision #first #i #i think

If I speak of Vienna it must be in the past tense, as a man speaks of a woman he has loved and who is dead. ↗

— Erich von Stroheim

#i #in the past #loved #man #must