Prosody Of Speech Quotes & Sayings

I dream of one day winning a college basketball scholarship — Aselin Debison

The problem, of course, was that people did not seem to understand the difference between right and wrong. They needed to be reminded about this, because if you left it to them to work out for themselves, they would never bother. They would just find out what was best for them, and then they would call that the right thing. That's how most people thought. — Alexander McCall Smith

She looked up at me, her eyes large with compassion, with understanding of the solitude and incivility of grief. — Donna Tartt

In the 1960s, if you introduced a new product to America, 90% of the people who viewed it for the first time believed in the corporate promise. Then 40 years later if you performed the same exercise, less than 10% of the public believed it was true. The fracturing of trust is based on the fact that the consumer has been let down. — Howard Schultz

We watched these auditions and could only pick one. Sometimes we would add new characters 'cause we wanted to use another actress. There were so many people who were just waiting for something like this. — Jenji Kohan

All play and no work makes Jack a mere toy. — Paul Laurence Dunbar

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern. — Plato

When I was a med student, the first patient I met with this sort of problem was a sixty-two-year-old man with a brain tumor. We strolled into his room on morning rounds, and the resident asked him, "Mr. Michaels, how are you feeling today?" "Four six one eight nineteen!" he replied, somewhat affably. The tumor had interrupted his speech circuitry, so he could speak only in streams of numbers, but he still had prosody, he could still emote: smile, scowl, sigh. He recited another series of numbers, this time with urgency. There was something he wanted to tell us, but the digits could communicate nothing other than his fear and fury. The team prepared to leave the room; for some reason, I lingered. "Fourteen one two eight," he pleaded with me, holding my hand. "Fourteen one two eight." "I'm sorry." "Fourteen one two eight," he said mournfully, staring into my eyes. And then I left to catch up to the team. He died a few months later, buried with whatever message he had for the world. — Paul Kalanithi

I accept relationship as my primary teacher about myself, other people, and the mysteries of the universe. — Gay Hendricks

Our minds are the most mysterious things about us. — Elsa Barker

You and I are gonna live forever — Noel Gallagher

Life's a rollercoaster ride. It's your choice if you want to scream or laugh. — Deon Potgieter