Even while lying, you'll be believed if you speak with…

I believed in God when cancer come to me. Now when I speak, I speak with authority because I've been there.

— Mr. T

“You don;t believe me?" He sound wounded, like the thought of me not believing him makes him incredibly sad. "No." "Then come with me,"…

— Lauren Barnholdt

If someone is lying to you, they'll generally look up to the top right. That means that they're trying to construct an image that…

— Keith Barry

“When we speak of authority at present we usually have in mind governmental authority. Actually, social order is most firm when imposed and maintained…

— Eric Hoffer

I don't feel I can speak with authority for many other people.

— V. S. Naipaul

As writers we must, from our very opening sentence, speak with authority to our readers.

— Michael Cunningham

“If thou be powerful, make thyself to be honoured for knowledge and for gentleness. Speak with authority, that is, not as if following injunctions,…

— Ptahhotep

I had decided I wanted to write about food, and I knew the only way to do that is to speak with authority, which…

— Gail Simmons

Those are always fun characters to play, the ones who are stupid but speak with authority.

— Alan Tudyk

Certainly, when you have shoulder pads on that go up to your ears, you hold yourself a certain way. You speak with authority when…

— Wendi McLendon-Covey

The dilemma of the critic has always been that if he knows enough to speak with authority, he knows too much to speak with…

— Raymond Chandler

I don't know where it's come from, but after many years of many different products, I feel like I can speak as an authority…

— June Diane Raphael

“You have to experience it, in order to speak about it with authority. Joseph Wambaugh says it with an air of that same authenticity,…

— Joseph Wambaugh

I can't speak with authority about Emeka Anyaoku. I just didn't know him that well.

— Bob Hawke

I know propaganda when I see it, and I can speak with authority on it.

— Martina Navratilova