Speaker

Famous quotes containing the word speaker:

    “There is a terrible blindness in the love that wants only to accommodate. It’s not only to do with omissions and half-truths. It implants a lack of being in the speaker and robs the self of an identity without which it is impossible for one to grow close to another.”
    —Alexander Theroux (b. 1940)

    “There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “The speaker in this case
    is a middle-aged witch, me
    tangled on my two great arms,
    my face in a book
    and my mouth wide,
    ready to tell you a story or two.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)