Muffled Speech Quotes & Sayings

One must stop conducting research before one has finished. Otherwise, one will never stop and never finish. — Barbara Tuchman

The current business model for language education is the student pays - in particular, the student pays Rosetta Stone $500. The problem with this business model is that 95 percent of the world's population doesn't have $500. — Luis Von Ahn

The speaker tentatively reaches out with that feeling and realizes that it's kind of absurd, or at least a dangerous consolation, which is what I think is discovered as that longish sentence at the end of the poem comes to its conclusion. But here I am interpreting my own poem, which is kind of like making out with one's own high school yearbook photo. — Matthew Zapruder

Life was not easy, nor was it happy, but she did not expect life to be easy, and, if it was not happy, that was woman's lot. It was a man's world, and she accepted it as such. The man owned the property, and the woman managed it. The man took credit for the management, and the woman praised his cleverness. The man roared like a bull when a splinter was in his finger, and the woman muffled the moans of childbirth, lest she disturb him. Men were rough of speech and often drunk. Women ignored the lapses of speech and put the drunkards to bed without bitter words. Men were rude and outspoken, women were always kind, gracious and forgiving. — Margaret Mitchell

What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make life more livable. — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

Friends may come and go
but enemies accumulate. — Jayne Ann Krentz

By the time I finish with the two of you, you will be begging me to let you die. (Desiderius) Desi dearest, I have never begged a day in my life, and the sun will surely splinter before I ever plead for anything from the likes of you. (Kyrian) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Rich isn't an amount of money, it's a mindset about how you live. If you believe you can win, you can. — Dave Ramsey

You know what's weird, I just write to write, with no intention, I just write. — Tommy Lee

The Divinity could be invoked as well in the English language as in the French. — Wilfrid Laurier

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us. — George Eliot

I'm not a Hollywood director. I'm an in spite of Hollywood director. — Martin Scorsese

He knew sometimes some fear can be good. When you are afraid things are going to get worse if you don't do something, it can prompt you into action. But it is not good when you are afraid that it keeps you from doing anything. — Spencer Johnson

It's marked as an object," Wu said. In computer terminology, an "object" was a block of code that could be moved around and used, the way you might move a chair in a room. — Michael Crichton