Speak Quotes

I really want to do the Olympics. Obviously, I can't let things out of the bag, so to speak.

Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent.

If I speak of Vienna it must be in the past tense, as a man speaks of a woman he has loved and who is dead.

Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's.

Yes, I believe that the art of winning is through intimidation, and not necessarily do you have to speak about it.

Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.

There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.

Since light travels faster than sound, some people appear to be bright until you hear them speak.

Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, but God to man doth speak in solitude.

Yes, they broke the law, but we can't deport them. Let's get over this pointing fingers and do something about that, whether it - they have to pay a fine, learn to speak English, the history, you can do that. And then you have to give visas for the skills we need.

Try to make at least one person happy every day. If you cannot do a kind deed, speak a kind word. If you cannot speak a kind word, think a kind thought. Count up, if you can, the treasure of happiness that you would dispense in a week, in a year, in a lifetime!

To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.

I think the thing that has made it possible for me to write personal songs and sing them year after year is the sensibility for good writing. Just opening your veins all over the paper is not necessarily going to be interesting. I wanted to speak to people.

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.

However, anyone to whom this happens should not leave his room upon awakening, should speak to no-one, but remain alone and sober until everything comes back to him, and he recalls the dream.

I speak English without an accent, and I speak Spanish without an accent. I really do have the best of both worlds.

Too many jazz pianists limit themselves to a personal style, a trademark, so to speak. They confine themselves to one type of playing.

Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things.

I'm self-confident and not afraid to speak my mind.

I had formed a black movement, so I would speak for the Trotskyist movement and then walk about a hundred yards to where the black movement was speaking.

I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.

I begin to feel like most Americans don't understand the First Amendment, don't understand the idea of freedom of speech, and don't understand that it's the responsibility of the citizen to speak out.

I can give substantive advice to the administration, the president's campaign, or any campaign that would ask for it. And, of course, when I speak I can talk about my views on policy and I have been supportive of the president's policy on leading foreign-policy issues.

I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare.

You only have to look at London, where almost half of all primary school children speak English as a second language, to see the challenges we now face as a country. This isn't fair to anyone: how can people build relationships with their neighbours if they can't even speak the same language?

I think there's an ongoing effort involved in trying to get a bigger perspective, trying to let go of things that limit your capacity to love and be loved or your capacity to hear and to really speak.

People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.

I think that what is important is that the music be honest and direct and that it is relevant to today. I think music needs to be of its time and speak to that time.

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

I speak directly to the people, and I know that the people of California want to have better leadership. They want to have great leadership. They want to have somebody that will represent them. And it doesn't matter if you're a Democrat or a Republican, young or old.