Speaking Quotes

No man pleases by silence; many I please by speaking briefly.

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.

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.

Do people really want liberty, equality, fraternity? Is it not some manner of speaking?

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

One, a mass movement from within, which, as you know, is constantly being put down brutally but which, again, regroups and moves forward as is happening right now as we are speaking.

I know that speaking with parties, which I do, but not very often, is seen by many as a 'contamination.'

An Englishman's way of speaking absolutely classifies him.

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.

Years from now, after I'm gone, someone will listen to what I've done and know I was here. They may not know or care who I was, but they'll hear my guitars speaking for me.

If you are speaking about my own songs, I would think so because we were talking about that particular era and I was singing one of my songs that I recorded 50 years ago.

Rule number one is, make sure that you face the person with hearing loss when you are speaking to them.

But what is drama? Broadly speaking, it is whatever by imitative action rouses interest or gives pleasure.

You know, I think what the American people want more than anything else right now is someone who's just going to look them in the eye and tell them the truth, even some truths that they don't like. And - but they have to believe the person's speaking from their heart and are authentic.

Ronald Reagan used to alarm other constituencies by speaking freely about the End Times foreshadowed in the Bible.

It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment.