Speak Quotes

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.

When I speak of "cycles," I am referring to lengthy intervals of relative homogeneity, if not in the resolving of problems, than at least with respect to the consistency of their capacity to productively irritate.

There are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds more than they think of without that warmth.

Those who speak of our culture as dead or dying have a quarrel with life, and I think they cannot understand its terms, but must endlessly repeat the projection of their own desires.

It's like there are all these languages available, especially in terms of image. Why confine yourself to only English? There's all these languages and possibilities and concepts to speak or communicate with.

Should such an ignorant people lead the world? How did it come to this in the first place? 82 percent of us don't even have a passport! Just a handful can speak a language other than English.

You know, people speak in poetry all the time. They just don't realize it.

I speak French fluently, so that really helped.

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

I was always a clown. In the eighth grade I won a city speech contest by doing an Eddie Murphy routine. I'm no good at public speaking, but if I can assume a role and speak as that person, then I'm fine. When I had to give a book report, I always did it in character.

I think my daughters have a pretty healthy self-awareness but I can't speak on their behalf.

My sense is, I think it's okay for directors to do movies that speak to other work in their career.

I've always been me. I've always been very direct and have told the truth and have been very willing to stand up and speak out.

I know it really sounds cheesy, but I did feel a duty to try to tell the stories of people who couldn't speak for themselves.

That's what the Senate is about. It's the last bastion of minority rights, where a minority can be heard, where a minority can stand on its feet, one individual if necessary, and speak until he falls into the dust.

I speak Spanish to my children and they speak it better than me.

Painters must speak through paint, not through words.

The idea in The Man that Would Be King was that the music should recreate all that majestic surrounding and emphasize the adventure, but also speak about the frustration or, rather said, the curse of both protagonists, even before happened what happens them.

I know you aren't supposed to speak ill of the dead.

Dreams do come true, even for someone who couldn't speak English and never had a music lesson or much of an education.

In the beginning, we had a great deal of freedom, and Jerry wrote completely out of his imagination - very, very freely. We even had no editorial supervision to speak of, because they were in such a rush to get the thing in before deadline. But later on we were restricted.