Famous quotes containing the words speech and/or acts:
“Funest philosophers and ponderers,
Their evocations are the speech of clouds.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“History is not a book, arbitrarily divided into chapters, or a drama chopped into separate acts: it has flowed forward. Rome is a continuity, called “eternal.” What has accumulated in this place acts on everyone, day and night, like an extra climate.”
—Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)