Speech Acts

Famous quotes containing the words speech and/or acts:

    Are you shouting at me, dead man, squeezing your face
    In agonies of speech on speechless panes?
    Cry louder, beat the windows, bawl your name!
    Kenneth Slessor (1901–1971)

    Whoso will seeken acts of sundry realms
    May read of dreames many a wonder thing.
    Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)