“I understand why people feel strongly about their own dialects. We are not trying to stop people from speaking them at home or among friends.”
Zhang Shiping
“The way we speak of our parents teaches our children the way they will speak of us to our grandchildren.”
Gene Crawford
“[T]o talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but that an equally great one is to know the right moment to stop.”
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
“When he to whom a person speaks does not understand, and he who speaks does not understand himself, that is metaphysics.”
Voltaire
“If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough”
Albert Einstein
“According to most studies, people's number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. Does that sound right? This means to the average person, if you go to a funeral, you're better off in the casket than doing the eulogy.”
Jerry Seinfeld
“The weight of this sad time we must obey;Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.”
William Shakespeare