Reading Talent

Speech is silver; silence is golden. - Thomas Carlyle

So much technology, so little talent. - Vernor Vinge

I'm a supporter of my free speech. - Howard Stern

Music is well said to be the speech of angels. - Thomas Carlyle

Speech is the vestibule to the palace of love. - Jami of Persia

Oh, that sound? I'm in the hot tub, reading a novel. - Jane Smiley

This is the sort of English up with which I will not put. - Winston Churchill

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading. - Henny Youngman

We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can. - Will Rogers

You don't have good grammar when you type with your fists. - C.F. Payne

Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won't carry a quitter. - Stephen King

There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting. - John Millington Synge

Reality can be lost when reason and language have been violated. - Ravi Zacharias

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. - Edith Sitwell

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. - Sydney Smith

Out of suffering comes creativity. You cannot spell painting without pain. - John Lithgow

Symptoms are the body's mother tongue; signs are in a foreign language. - John Brown

I don't care what you say about me. Just be sure to spell my name wrong. - Barbra Streisand

Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. - Francis Bacon

Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it. - Moses Hadas

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day. - Thornton Wilder

There's nothing like an English weirdo. We have the best nutters in the world. - Sharon Osbourne

"The Hunchback Of Notre Dame" had the big fat English actor, Charles Lawson. - Archie Bunker

Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language. - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

A person's name is, to that person, the sweetest, most important sound in any language. - Dale Carnegie

Officialese: A government language where you can understand the words, but not the sentences - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

It's not uncommon to see kids on the school bus reading books and doing homework on the bus. - Anthony Amero

Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife. - Kahlil Gibran

I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence. - Aeschylus

Reading a good book in silence is like eating chocolate for the rest of your life and never getting fat. - Becca Fitzpatrick

The rasp of the respirator's filter were about as comforting as Darth Vader reading a bedtime story. - Andy McNab

I'd rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent. - John Wooden

I was a huge bookworm as a kid, and you could usually find me reading something with a dragon on its cover. - Julie Kagawa

If you find yourself saying, "But I can't speak English...", try adding the word "... yet". - Jane Revell

Read something no one else is reading, think something no one else is thinking and do something no one else is doing. - Bob McLaren

Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors. - David Viscott

Heard about the young deaf boy who used sign language?
One day he told his mother a dirty joke and she washed his hands out with soap. - Red Skelton

No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally - and often far more - worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond. - C S Lewis

No matter how bad things are, they can always be worse. So what if my stroke left me with a speech impediment? Moses had one, and he did all right. - Kirk Douglas

When I was six, I entered a talent contest. I dyed my hair blond, had a chainsaw and pretended I was Eminem. The old folk weren't expecting that. - Nico Mirallegro