Famous quotes containing the words external and/or speech:
“The soul, he said, is composed
Of the external world.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“Speech and prose are not the same thing. They have different wave-lengths, for speech moves at the speed of light, where prose moves at the speed of the alphabet, and must be consecutive and grammatical and word-perfect. Prose cannot gesticulate. Speech can sometimes do nothing more.”
—James Kenneth Stephens (1882–1950)