Speak Quotes

Mind you, the Elizabethans had so many words for the female genitals that it is quite hard to speak a sentence of modern English without inadvertently mentioning at least three of them.

I had this terrible stammer, so I couldn't really speak properly until I was 16 or 17.

It is difficult sharing and capturing so many years of memories and the people behind the words-and even though that guest book can speak volumes, in between, the pages remain so silent.

I can't speak for the future. I have no crystal ball.

I find books that have a moral and spiritual center, that speak to what is really important and lasting, hugely appealing.

But those two plays left me on fresh terms with language. I didn't always have to speak in my own voice.

Seriously, these days I tend to shut up in terms of external analysis and DO try to let things speak for themselves, while still trying to get some depth into them.

If Hollywood stars speak out, so do all sorts of other people. Now Hollywood stars can get a better hearing.

Clearly the Secretary of Defense, my boss, would like nothing better than to get Osama bin Laden and to get... to ensure the complete defeat of al-Qaida, because we know that al-Qaida is planning operations against the United States even as we speak here.

When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.

Once you have the pattern of life of this person, the choreography, so to speak, you have the canvas that you present eight times a week, not without feeling underneath it, but it's not as churning as the discovery process was.

Silence is complicity. Speak now or surrender your ground.

The wretch who lives without freedom feels like dressing in the mud from the streets Those who have you, o Liberty, do not know. you. Those who do not have you should not speak of you, but win you.

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

I can't speak for them, of course, but I believe that most economists would accept the view that, while you sometimes can make a score by sheer luck, you can't do it constantly, unless you're willing to put the resources in.

It is true that I was born in Iowa, but I can't speak for my twin sister.

You know, we all have our inner demons. I, for one - I can't speak for you, but I'm on the verge of moral collapse at any time. It can happen by the end of the show.

Dramatic experience is not logical; it may be subdued to the kind of coherence that we indicate when we speak, in criticism, of form.

I don't think we should speak so much. What if we were singing a song? We split, whilst singing.

You won't find me in a romantic comedy. Those movies don't speak to me. People don't come to talk to me about those scripts, because they probably think I'm this dark, twisted, miserable person.

I speak Urdu quite a lot, too, and I read a lot of Persian.

My lord, I have some matter of law relating to the indictment, and I desire counsel to speak to it.

Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.

Human intelligence is a reflection of the intelligence that produces everything. In knowing, we are simply extending the intelligence that comes to and constitutes us. We mimic the mind of God, so to speak. Or better, we continue and extend it.

I wish I could speak Spanish, because it would be a lot easier to play more interesting roles.

So if we have anything original to offer, it's to speak from our own life about the society we're in.

Now all we need is to continue to speak the truth fearlessly, and we shall add to our number those who will turn the scale to the side of equal and full justice in all things.

Why do you speak to me of the stones? It is only the arch that matters to me.

Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls. The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That's Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that.

No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions.