#speaks

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

— Jean Cocteau

#always #liar #poet #speaks #truth

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

If you want music that speaks to you, that LISTENS to you, you have to go out of your way, which I enjoy actually. I'm constantly on a private-eye kick to find the totally obscure. ↗

— Trevor Dunn

#constantly #enjoy #find #go #i

All I can say is that I've had too many people in the hip-hop industry really like what I'm doing. I know where I'm coming from, and the album speaks for itself. ↗

— Brian Austin Green

#coming #doing #had #hip-hop #i

New fathers, political prisoners, traumatised presidential aides, resolute schoolboys, MEPs addressing unfriendly chambers - we all find that Shakespeare has magically anticipated our precise circumstances. How he was possible, I still don't understand; but there isn't a day I'm not grateful that he speaks to me in my own language. ↗

— Daniel Hannan

#aides #anticipated #chambers #circumstances #day

Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not only by means of sounds, it speaks nothing but sound. ↗

— Eduard Hanslick

#combinations #hear #means #music #notes

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens. ↗

— Jimi Hendrix

#listens #speaks #wisdom

God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf. ↗

— Thomas Brooks

#deaf #dumb #god #hears #heart

Pity speaks to grief More sweetly than a band of instruments. ↗

— Barry Cornwall

#grief #instruments #more #pity #speaks

People are afraid, and when people are afraid, when their pie is shrinking, they look for somebody to hate. They look for somebody to blame. And a real leader speaks to anxiety and to fear and allays those fears, assuages anxiety. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#anxiety #blame #fear #fears #hate