Speech Acts

Famous quotes containing the words speech and/or acts:

“I love eulogies. They are the most moving kind of speech because they attempt to pluck meaning from the fog, and on short order, when the emotions are still ragged and raw and susceptible to leaps.”
—Peggy Noonan (b. 1950)

“There are no second acts in American lives.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)