Indirect Speech Acts

Famous quotes containing the words indirect, speech and/or acts:

    God knows, my son,
    By what by-paths and indirect crooked ways
    I met this crown.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    The average Southerner has the speech patterns of someone slipping in and out of consciousness. I can change my shoes and socks faster than most people in Mississippi can speak a sentence.
    Bill Bryson (b. 1951)

    The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of “living well,” which all men desire; all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it.
    Hannah Arendt (1906–1975)