Speech Acts

Famous quotes containing the words speech and/or acts:

“Go three days without reading and your speech will become tasteless.”
—Chinese proverb.

“If human beings are to survive in a nuclear age, committing acts of violence may eventually have to become as embarrassing as urinating or defecating in public are today.”
—Myriam Miedzian, U.S. author. Boys Will Be Boys, ch. 3 (1991)