Pauses In Speech Quotes & Sayings

Expressive speech, with modulation in pitch and volume, and a minimum of noticeable pauses, boosts credibility and enhances the impression of intelligence. — Leonard Mlodinow

The most precious things in speech are pauses. — Ralph Richardson

Hope is a motivation for pressing ahead, a sustained effort and a joy that the promised will be fulfilled at the right time. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The way to be patriotic in America is not only to love America, but to love the duty that lies nearest to our hand, and to know that in performing it we are serving our country. — Woodrow Wilson

The growing drama has outgrown such toys Of simulated stature, face, and speech: It also peradventure may outgrow The simulation of the painted scene, Boards, actors, prompters, gaslight, and costume, And take for a worthier stage the soul itself, Its shifting fancies and celestial lights, With all its grand orchestral silences To keep the pauses of its rhythmic sounds. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I believe in fiction and the power of stories because that way we speak in tongues. We are not silenced. All of us, when in deep trauma, find we hesitate, we stammer; there are long pauses in our speech. The thing is stuck. We get our language back through the language of others. We can turn to the poem. We can open the book. Somebody has been there for us and deep-dived the words. — Jeanette Winterson

Transformational Fiction teaches how to assess, understand, and heal sexuality. — Anne Stirling Hastings

Later, dictating the tale into his comlog, the Consul remembered it as a seamless whole, minus the pauses, hoarse voice, false starts, and small redundancies which were the timeless failings of human speech — Dan Simmons

Never stop chasing your dream till you catch it. — Michelle Woods

Scratch the surface, and there's just more surface - chalk dust under your nails, but not much else. What you see, as they say, is what you get. — Laura Kasischke

Ours [religion] is without a doubt the most ridiculous, the most absurd, and the most bloody to ever infect the world. — Voltaire

We've all got to worry some-but we can't let it conquer us. Instead, let it alarm us. — Jim Rohn

For me surfing is just something that I love to do. I grew up surfing, is sort of like a family requirement. I can't imagine my life without it. But I am not defined by it, nor is my music. They are very separate. — Tristan Prettyman

How convinced are you that man was created in the image of God when you can't see the image of God? — Michael Bassey

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