#speaks

Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks. ↗

— Jimmy Breslin

#english #in the past #language #paintbrush #past

The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#always #liar #poet #speaks #truth

On the day of the show, I sit down with someone that speaks very good English and someone who speaks the local language very well and work out what I'm going to say. ↗

— Phil Collins

#down #english #going #good #i

To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#begs #bespeaks #bread #daily #daily bread

An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#almost #author #bad #books #children

Obama has no solutions. Obama has failed the country and its great citizens, and they don't like it when somebody such as myself speaks the truth about this - it hurts too much. ↗

— Donald Trump

#citizens #country #failed #great #hurts

The work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when all contemporary interest in that work is extinct. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#extinct #interest #lasts #over #speaks

Around my house, I won't even speak to my family unless they first address me by my official Berzerker name, Godred Crovan, Victor of Sky-Hill and Ruler of Man and the Isles. And now that I think of it, that's probably why nobody speaks to me unless it's time to feed the dogs or take out the garbage. ↗

— Zakk Wylde

#around #dogs #even #family #feed

At 20, 25, 30, we begin to realise that the possibilities of escape are getting fewer. We have jobs, children, partners, debts. This is the part of us to which literary fiction speaks. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#children #debts #escape #fewer #fiction

Still the question remains of what actually speaks in a poem, if not subjectivity as historically constructed. ↗

— Thomas Harrison

#constructed #historically #poem #question #remains