Speak Quotes · Page 115

I live the Swiss mentality but the Kosovo mentality too, because when I go home, I speak Albanian.

— Xherdan Shaqiri

It is no more informative to speak of self-efficacy in global terms than to speak of nonspecific social behavior

— Albert Bandura

Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.

— Oscar Wilde

“Sometimes, the words we speak are not the words we want to say.”

— Anthony West

I need some older, wiser being to cry to. I talk to God, but the sky is empty, and Orion walks by…

— Sylvia Plath

Explore the idea of what the language that women speak would really be like if no one were there to correct them.

— Helene Cixous

Good first drafts and speedy responses to consumer dialog will always trump lawyered corporate speak.

— John Battelle

I think the main thing was that the character couldn't speak in regular language, so he had to be mimed.

— Peter Mayhew

My father had barely any education. He could hardly write or count. But his great pride was that he was perfectly bilingual.…

— Robert Lepage

The many speak highly of you, but have you really any grounds for satisfaction with yourself if you are the kind of…

— Seneca the Younger

When people get to speak about themselves and the things that matter to them, on their own terms, we see them as…

— Rachel Maddow

We have three things in common: Irish wives, the ability to speak for 17 minutes without a verb, and the fact that…

— Henry A. Kissinger

You kind of have to become a song so to speak and we wanted to make sure that Tom did them with…

— Kerry King

Man, just tryin' to get as much sleep as possible, to drink in water, and tryin' to make sure that my people…

— Kanye West

[European audiences differ from American] they talk different. The ones in Holland speak Dutch. The ones in Switzerland speak Swiss. That's the…

— George Thorogood

For days on end, I would hardly speak, and when I did only the vilest sort of gibberish would spout forth. I…

— Bette Midler

We all have to lead our own life, and we only have the one life, and the only people who can live…

— Javier Marías

Here in Raine, I can walk with the sunlight on my face. I can speak to anyone who speaks to me. I…

— Patricia A. McKillip

Images work on so many different levels. As a writer you feel them, try not to get in their way or narrow…

— Laurie Sheck

The Creation speaks a universal language, independent of human speech or human language, multiplied and various as they be. It is an…

— Thomas Paine

“Tell them about how you’re never really a whole person if you remain silent, because there’s always that one little piece inside…

— Audre Lorde

Whenever I saw her, I felt like I had been living in another country, doing moderately well in another language, and then…

— Ann Patchett

That's what's great about Howard Zinn. Here's a guy who says, "Look, democracy doesn't come from above - it comes from below."…

— Josh Brolin

We certainly did take the country from the Indians. Right. So, but what's going on here, as I would call it a,…

— Dinesh D'Souza

People who speak the same language can hate one another as easily as can people who speak unrelated languages.

— Peter Farb

I'm going to try to continue to try to speak English because I live in the United States.

— Yoel Romero

I think I can speak on behalf of women and say that every woman wants a man who just loves them and…

— Alex Pettyfer

There are no trifles in the moral universe of God. Speak me a word to-day; ? it shall go ringing on through…

— William Morley Punshon

You think, you don't just speak. The lines come off the thoughts.

— Jeremy Irons

The 1st Amendment protects the right to speak, not the right to spend.

— Byron White

I will always speak out when someone says that a principle or a rule or a tradition trumps people.

— Gene Robinson

And there are times that you got to speak up, and you’ve got to call things what they are!

— H. L. Richardson

To speak less is wisdom, to eat less is healthy, and to mingle less with te people is safe and serene.

— Umar

Speak of change, and the world is in alarm. And yet where do we not see change?

— Anonymous

A strong case can be made for religious leaders to speak out on political issues.

— Tony Campolo

If a rider is concerned about questionable practices, it's his duty to speak up for the good of others.

— Eddy Merckx

Nabokov quote: "I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child."

— Nick Laird

Its better to be quite when your words are not given importance, as silence does speak...

— Ritu Ghatourey

The time-honored role of the artist [is] to speak truth to power.

— Salman Rushdie

I say what I mean. I don't speak in code. That's why I am a star and ace communicator.

— Rush Limbaugh