Speak Quotes

We are different people - you get a different take on the band whoever you speak to. Somehow, at the end of it, it goes through the filtering process and out comes the Radiohead thing.

If you want to hear the facts, you are going to have to let me speak.

As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.

For example, when my mother died, the people who showed up just to put an apron on to cook, people who really do the right thing, so to speak, as my momma would always say to show that they care, a sense of community that we've lost so much in our country.

It's usually, my people speak to your people and then they speak around each other and trade calls for weeks.

When I hear Obama speak he just seems really sincere and he just seems like somebody who actually has his heart and his motivation in the right place. Forget about color or race or gender or whatever, he's got his heart in the right place.

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

I'd rather let the music speak for itself.

If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.

I do not want to have the feeling of writing "for eternity," so to speak.

You take a plug and put it in a socket, and that's what the theatre is-it lights up right away. You speak, and they respond immediately.

I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.

It is eerie being all but alone in Westminster Abbey. Without the tourists, there are only the dead, many of them kings and queens. They speak powerfully and put my thoughts into vivid perspective.

I think I can speak for all four of us on the show here. We all consider ourselves to be feminists and we get very upset when people don't think we are. We're like, where did this come from? Of course we are.

Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.

A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people's lives, a politics that does not speak to and include people, is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail.

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.