Speak Quotes

Backbite. To speak of a man as you find him when he can't find you.

But why shouldn't I speak out? Don't you speak out in this country?

The feeling of not belonging, of not being entirely worthy, of being sometimes hostage to your own sensibilities. Those things speak to me very personally.

Always speak politely to an enraged Dragon.

You speak of Lord Byron and me; there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task.

I won't ever got to a place that's racist, and I will tell everybody else not to and I'll speak against them. But it should be their right to be racist.

If it were bad songs, yeah, I'd speak up, but they're not bad songs.

In the studios days, the public's perception of movie stars was much different, because the stars were so much less exposed. This made them seem more special, more unearthly. Today they're no longer perceived as different - they've become human, so to speak.

Speaking English is like tongue-twist for me. I can speak each word perfect, but then you have to string them together like, 'Blah, blah, blah.' That's when I get crazy.

Anyone who attempts to relate his life loses himself in the immediate. One can only speak of another.

Whoever rises to deliver the inaugural Address of 2013 will speak to a nation in which the American Dream is under profound economic and cultural pressure. This is perhaps best measured by the state of the middle class.

No one has the right to ignite a war and lead an occupation and armies to conquer people, invading them and make them suffer all kinds of torture, murder, expulsion, displacement, bombing and terrorism by different lethal prohibited weapons and then come and speak as the savior of the people or a defender of their rights.

The administration needs to speak honestly with the American people. Exaggerating our progress in defeating the insurgency or in creating an Iraqi army paints a dangerous picture.

It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak.

If the people should elect, they will never fail to prefer some man of distinguished character, or services; some man, if he might so speak of continental reputation.

I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!

Don't speak evil of someone if you don't know for certain, and if you do know ask yourself, why am I telling it?

There are a lot of wonderful things created in our culture that have been ignored that can speak to them.

Let's not interfere with justice... Let's let justice speak.

Your English style will no doubt put all the other gentlemen to bed. I speak figuratively, of course.

You know what I have noticed? And this is really sad. Flying first class is less scary than flying coach. They speak to you and they're so nice to you and they want to help you and they know you want a drink before the plane takes off. And they bring it to you without asking. If you're sitting in coach and hoping for a drink, good luck.

I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents.

I try to speak of a love that not necessarily romantic. I think there is so much love between people and so much love people want to give but it's harder and harder these days to show that, to celebrate that, you know?

The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.

I suppose I don't hear things, but I listen, if you know what I mean. And there is a big difference between hearing and listening. So it's like a conversation, you know. When you speak to someone, it's one on one, and that's exactly how I play.

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

I do not speak frequently or otherwise to the press.

Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.

There are two kinds of artists in this world; those that work because the spirit is in them, and they cannot be silent if they would, and those that speak from a conscientious desire to make apparent to others the beauty that has awakened their own admiration.

It's very difficult for me to speak about being an actor.