Speaking Quotes

Genuine good taste consists in saying much in few words, in choosing among our thoughts, in having order and arrangement in what we say, and in speaking with composure.

Poetry is at the centre of my life, too, emotionally speaking, and intellectually speaking - it's just that I'm one of those people who enjoy doing other stuff as well.

It is no use speaking in soft, gentle tones if everyone else is shouting.

Thus, biologically speaking the American people are literally only half an immigrant people.

Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man.

Just several years ago, Shaykh Kabbani, who is the head of the Islamic Supreme Council of America, when he was speaking at the State Department, said that more than 80 percent of the mosques were controlled by extremists. And from all I've seen over the last four or five years, the situation has even gotten worse.

When I talk of hearing a poet's voice speaking, I always think of it as in the presence of the man.

You've got to guard against speaking more clearly than you think.

Generally speaking, everyone is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.

First of all, we were never not speaking. It's gotten so blown out of proportion. It was a very straightforward difference of opinion. I think because we were so private and refused to talk about it, these stories just got out of control.

Speaking purely from a musical standpoint, I think I am a great performer.

It was in Cardiff, and the cast was 60 per cent Welsh-speaking. It's the first time I've walked into a rehearsal room speaking my mother tongue, which in itself was a breath of fresh clean air from the Welsh mountains. Singing Hans Sachs is always a milestone, but I was happy to be part of such an achievement, not personally but as a company.

Printing ballots in multiple languages costs millions of dollars every year. It also discourages immigrants from integrating into American society and gaining the benefits that come from speaking English.

A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man.

So I got home, and the phone was ringing. I picked it up, and said 'Who's speaking please?' And a voice said 'You are.'

Generally speaking, we get the joke. We know that the free market is nonsense. We know that the whole point is to game the system, to beat the market or at least find someone who will pay you a lot of money, 'cause they're convinced that there is a free lunch.

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

There is a pride in speaking this language.

Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.

If you see the Sopranos, you're not going to be speaking in the Shakespearean English.

On stage, generally speaking, the story is stopped or held back by songs, because that's the convention. Audiences enjoy the song and the singer, that's the point.

Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.

There are always at least five good films at the end of the year to get nominated, but generally speaking nowadays, it's more of the independent films that are recognized.

I'll ask you if you can play some speaking roles.

Strictly speaking, every citizen above a certain level of income is guilty of some offense.

I don't know why men are so fascinated with television and I think it has something to do with - if I may judge from my own father, who used to sit and stare at the TV while my mother was speaking to him - I think that's a man's way of tuning out.

British aren't really known for their physical loveliness but firemen, generally speaking, are gorgeous.

Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come of nothing.

I'm very aware when I'm speaking to the English of how flat my Mid-Atlantic American voice is.

Botanically speaking, tomatoes are the fruit of a vine, just as are cucumbers, squashes, beans and peas.