“If you're going to say anything filthy, please speak clearly.”

— Vivian Stanshall

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English musician, artist and author 1943–1995

Darby Conley (1970) American cartoonist

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Bucky Katt

“If you only try to please others, you're going to resent those people you're trying to please; the ones who are often closest to you. If you choose a path that you yourself want to take, then you're going to be much kinder to the people in your life.”

Sarah McLachlan (1968) Canadian musician, singer, and songwriter

Source: Plenty: A Collection of Sarah McLachlan's Favorite Recipes

“Before I get started, if anybody needs anything else at their tables, just speak slowly and clearly into your table numbers.”

Stephen Colbert (1964) American political satirist, writer, comedian, television host, and actor

White House Correspondents' Association Dinner (2006)
Context: Before I get started, if anybody needs anything else at their tables, just speak slowly and clearly into your table numbers. Someone from the NSA will be right over with a cocktail.

“My words are nearly always an offense.
I don't know how to speak of anything
So as to please you. But I might be taught,
I should suppose. I can't say I see how.”

Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet

Home Burial (1915)

“Clearly she was expected to say something, but panic at having to speak stole the thoughts from her head.”

Shannon Hale The Goose Girl

Source: The Goose Girl

“No one will be able to speak suitably and clearly about anything unless he has shaped his speech by some art, by imitation of the best.”

Philip Melanchthon (1497–1560) German reformer

Source: Praise of Eloquence (1523), p. 62

“but I don't want to wear a condom because I don't feel anything," and she says calmly… glaring at me,"If you don't use one you're not going to feel anything anyway.”

Bret Easton Ellis book American Psycho

Source: American Psycho

“A mathematician may say anything he pleases, but a physicist must be at least partially sane.”

Josiah Willard Gibbs (1839–1903) physicist

Quoted in R. B. Lindsay, "On the Relation of Mathematics and Physics," Scientific Monthly 59, 456 (Dec. 1944)
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“If you're going to say what you want to say, you're going to hear what you don't want to hear.”

Roberto Bolaño book The Insufferable Gaucho

Source: The Insufferable Gaucho

“You cannot think clearly if you cannot speak and write clearly”

John Rogers Searle (1932) American philosopher

The Storm Over the University (December 6, 1990)
Context: Finally, and perhaps most importantly, you need to acquire the skills of writing and speaking that make for candor, rigor, and clarity. You cannot think clearly if you cannot speak and write clearly.

“If you're going to say anything filthy, please speak clearly.”

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