Eunice Kathleen Waymon (Nina Simone) Quotes

I have a cultured manner of speaking.

Eunice Kathleen Waymon

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• I do have to travel a lot for speaking engagements.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Travel
  • Lot
  • Speaking

• I was working for the CIA and prohibited from speaking publicly.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Working
  • Speaking
  • CIA

• I come from Brazil, which is a Portuguese speaking part of the continent.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Come
  • Speaking
  • Brazil

• Roosevelt's humor was broad, his manner friendly. Of wit there was little; of philosophy, none. What did he possess? Intuition, inspiration, love of adventure.

  

  Emanuel Celler
  • Inspiration
  • Philosophy
  • Adventure

• Public speaking? I speak to myself on the street!

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Public
  • Street
  • Speaking

• I'm going to be a fashion icon in a minute. I'm not going to do it in a corny manner. I have a voice that speaks for a whole other market - not just black people, but high fashion urban people. I mix street wear with high fashion. It's never been seen before.

  

  ASAP Rocky
  • People
  • High
  • Black

• The modern architect is, generally speaking, art's greatest enemy.

  

  Auguste Renoir
  • Art
  • Enemy
  • Speaking

• I'm always honored to be speaking alongside Deepak Chopra.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Always
  • Speaking
  • Chopra

• Anyone who is speaking of a greater compassion, a greater humanitarian concern, is a leader paving the path we all need to follow.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Path
  • Compassion
  • Concern

• In speaking, it is best to be clear and say just enough to convey the meaning.

  

  Confucius
  • Meaning
  • Speaking
  • Convey

• Clever talk and domineering manner have little to with being a Man at His Best.

  

  Confucius
  • Man
  • Clever
  • Manner

• In the same manner, having been reduced by disorder, and sunk to their utmost state of depression, unable to descend lower, they, of necessity, reascend; and thus from good they gradually decline to evil, and from evil again return to good. The reason is, that valor produces peace; peace, repose; repose, disorder; disorder, ruin; so from disorder order springs; from order virtue, and from this, glory and good fortune.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Manner
  • Disorder
  • Reduce

• All these things He must be in me, abiding, living, speaking in me; that I may be the righteousness of God in Him (2 Cor. v. 21); not in love, nor in gifts and graces which follow; but in Him.

  

  Martin Luther
  • God
  • Gifts
  • Speaking

• Well, I aren't like a bird-clapper, forced to make a rattle when the wind blows on me. I can keep my own counsel when there's no good i' speaking.

  

  George Eliot
  • Wind
  • Speaking
  • Counsel

• In like manner, the disbelief of a Divine Providence renders a man uncapable of holding any public station; for, since kings avow themselves to be the deputies of Providence.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Manner
  • Divine Providence
  • Public Station

• People come from around the world and can understand each other without even speaking the same languages!

  

  Sergei Bubka
  • People
  • Understand
  • Speaking

• The rose fell into his lap, and he looked up, startled. Mimi grinned. "Hey handsom" Mimi sent. "What's up?" Jack replied, without speaking. "Just thinking of you." Jack's smile deepened, and he threw the rose back at her so that it landed in her lap. Mimi tucked it behind her ear and fluttered her eyelashes appreciatively.

  

  Melissa de la Cruz
  • Thinking
  • Smile
  • Speaking

• The manners that apply specifically during courtship come to be replaced over the course of marriage by a different set of manners, embodying the residual pettiness, complaining, and faultfinding of childhood.

  

  Aaron T. Beck
  • Marriage
  • Childhood
  • Manner

• The most successful column is one that causes the reader to throw down the paper in a peak of fit.

  

  William Lewis Safir
  • Successful
  • Causes
  • Fit

• Roger stooped, picked up a stone, aimed and threw it at Henry-threw it to miss. The stone, that token of preposterous time, bounced five yards to Henry's right and fell in the water. Roger gathered a handful of stones and began to throw them. Yet there was a space round Henry, perhaps six yards in diameter, into which he dare not throw. Here, invisible yet strong, was the taboo of the old life. Round the squatting child was the protection of parents and school and policemen and the law. Roger was conditioned by a civilization that knew nothing of him and was in ruins.

  

  William Golding
  • Children
  • School
  • Missing

• I think romance basically starts with respect. And new romance always starts with respect. Like the song 'Love the One You're With'; there is something to that. It's not just make love to whomever you're with, it's just love whomever you're with.

  

  Bill Murray
  • Respect
  • Romance
  • Starts

• I have a cultured manner of speaking.

  

  Eunice Kathleen Waymon
  • Speaking
  • Manner