Speak Quotes · Page 130

We need more radicalism among us before we can speak as becomes a suffering, oppressed, and persecuted people.

— Charles Lenox Remond

We're boxed in and labeled before we're ever able to speak who we believe we are or who we dream we'll become.

— Andrea Gibson

My songs are self-explanatory... somebody pointed out to me that... my songs pretty much speak for themselves.

— Christine McVie

Everyone has learning difficulties, because learning to speak French or understanding relativity is difficult.

— Mark Haddon

It is an inwariable rule with the dealers to praise the bad points and let the good 'uns speak for themselves.

— Robert Smith Surtees

I think putting your fingerprints on life in general speaks more value than this game of basketball can speak.

— George Hill

I just try to be authentic and speak from the heart. Sometimes it requires me to shut up and not say anything.

— Monty Williams

One of the main things about Cockney is, you speak at twice the speed as Americans. Americans speak very slow.

— Michael Caine

Cafe De Flore speaks of love, its joys, its pains and its dramas - to love and to lose. This story upset…

— Vanessa Paradis

If you look at a testimony of love from 2,000 years ago it can still exactly speak to you, whereas medical advice…

— Jennifer Michael Hecht

As an actor I'm always interested in dialogue, the way the characters speak to each other. I also enjoy a bit of…

— Michael Boatman

Dear friend, I pray thee, if thou wouldst be proving Thy strong regard for me, Make me no vows. Lip-service is not…

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

I am her friend, and her tongue is in my mouth. I can speak her sentiments for her, though Ethel Waters can…

— Zora Neale Hurston

You have to open the music, so to speak, and see what's behind the notes because the notes are the same whether…

— Vladimir Horowitz

If you listen to the way I speak, I have a lot of rhythm, use a lot of accents. When I'm playing…

— Stefon Harris

Sir, if you ever presume again to speak disrespectfully of General Grant in my presence, either you or I will sever his…

— Robert E. Lee

The dead are hard to look at. Their faces shimmer. They all look slightly angry or confused. they will come up to…

— Rick Riordan

Poets should speak out against what we see as the assault against our Constitution and the warmongering that's going on. I'm perfectly…

— Sam Hamill

One hears of the mechanical equivalent of heat. What we now need to discover in the social realm is the moral equivalent…

— William James

Sometimes we are looked upon as people who speak only of prohibitions. Nothing could be further from the truth! Authentic Christian discipleship…

— Pope Benedict XVI

I live in L.A. so I worry my kids aren't that connected to Britain, I suppose I don't want them to become…

— Kevin McKidd

To be functionally fluent in a language, for instance, in most cases you need about 1,200 words. To acquire a total of…

— Anonymous

If I were to speak your kind of language, I would say that man's only moral commandment is: Thou shalt think. But…

— Ayn Rand

I think and speak clearer since I cut the dairy out. I can breathe better and perform at a better rate, and…

— Common

He who has once made himself notorious as utterly unprincipled, is not credited even when he speaks the truth.

— Periander

Just because I don't speak English with an accent anymore doesn't mean that I'm better than the people who do.

— Jimmy O. Yang

I don't want to open my mouth or speak anymore, because everything I say becomes scandalous. It wears you out.

— Megan Fox

A lot of people said I tried to speak white on the phone. That is farthest thing from the truth and offensive.

— Ron Stallworth

We boast of our freedom, and we have your example for it. We talk the language we have always heard you speak.

— Samuel Adams

It is important to speak your truth, not to convince anyone else of it. Everyone must make up their own minds.

— Barbara Marciniak

Where are Jesse Jackson and Rev. Al Sharpton? They don't speak for Black America, and they don't speak for me.

— Darryl Glenn

When you have a voice, and you have an opportunity at the world level to be able to speak, it has to…

— Caitlyn Jenner

You find yourself in the world, without any power, immovable as a rock, stupid, so to speak, as a log of wood.

— Nicolas Malebranche

Misery which, through long ages, had no spokesman, no helper, will now be its own helper and speak for itself.

— Thomas Carlyle

Numbers can't speak for themselves, and data sets - no matter their scale - are still objects of human design.

— Kate Crawford

We become intoxicated with color, with words that speak of color, and with the sun that makes colors brighter.

— Andre Derain

When a man speaks of the need for realism one may be sure that this is always the prelude to some bloody…

— Isaiah Berlin

It was a pity that people did not risk enough to speak out in behalf of one another's happiness and their own.

— Louis Zukofsky

Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.

— Walt Disney

Every so often you read a play and a character just speaks to you - almost seems to speak through you, in…

— Alan Rickman