Unless the orator calls in the aid of memory to retain the matter and the words with which thought and study have furnished him, all his other merits, however brilliant, we know will lose their effect.
One of those who was rescued, Priscilla Arena, prayed as she waited, took out a sheet of loose-leaf paper and wrote what she thought might be her last words to her husband and children, ages 5 and 9.
Just when you thought the words "free" and "Internet" had worn out their welcome, along comes the movement to offer free wireless Internet access in public spaces.
Her words rang true with me and I thought back on the past few years of my working life.
The great Billie Holiday said she thought of herself as a horn when she delivered a tune, reshaping melody and words to increase their impact.
In other words they thought Wales would lose the political PR battle if the EBacc and WBacc went head to head.
She clasped my right side and repeatedly rubbed my left arm, murmuring into my left ear what I thought were more words of Malayalam.
"You are my love at first sight, and though you're scared to be near me, my words penetrate your thought now in an intimate prelude, " Keyes wrote.
We thought they'd changed some of the words to Man Machine - made it slightly more sinister and negative.
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It means that you have to reach the end of your own speech very clearly, so that, in the great rush of words which make up a Shakespeare text, the next character can pick up the thought and run with it.
But Farrell's flamboyant oafs remain endearing for their guileless childishness, "mind-bottling" way with words, and the star's willingness to let it all hang out ("I thought you'd like to see what a real skater's body looks like, " he tells Jimmy over his paunch).
When I asked another fan, dressed head-to-toe in the red, green and gold of the Ghanaian flag, what he thought lay behind Ghana's success, he shouted out two words - "team spirit!"
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