Speak Quotes · Page 139

It's funny: when I go to a school and speak, and when they hear the back story about me, they want to…

— Jay Asher

It is language which speaks in literature, in all its swarming 'polysemic' plurality, not the author himself.

— Terry Eagleton

All things in the natural world symbolize God, yet none of them speak of Him but in broken and imperfect words.

— Henry Ward Beecher

You know it's hard to hear what a bearded man is saying. He can't speak above a whisker.

— Herman J. Mankiewicz

I do not speak for my church on public matters; and the church does not speak for me.

— John F. Kennedy

I am too many flavors for one f***ing spoon. I want to erase the lines so I can be me. If we…

— Staceyann Chin

“A thought to ponder: If I couldn't use words to speak, what would my life be saying?”

— Evinda Lepins

I want more people to speak up about issues, like equal pay.

— Ava Max

When enlightened people are so poor that they cannot help others, if they speak a word to awaken the confused or to…

— Zicheng Hong

Very few of the so-called liberals are open-minded… They shout you down and won't let you speak if you disagree with them.

— John Wayne

It's not the first time that I speak with American journalists. I've had meetings with many different newspapers and stations, and I've…

— Hassan Nasrallah

You can't be dismissive of important things. You have to speak out, even if you don't get the results you would like…

— Rob Halford

Let us work toward greater cooperation with all Caribbean Countries, whether we speak English, Dutch, French or Spanish, whether we are independent…

— Said Musa

In fiction, I tend to write fairly realistic dialogue-not always, and it tends to vary from book to book. But in many…

— Don DeLillo

My hope is to create spaces where people of all stripes can come together and speak at a lower decibel level. We…

— Tracy K. Smith

I want to go to college to study journalism. I want to speak French fluently, to travel. My mom was a journalist…

— Mandy Moore

Our compulsive hunger always to know first, speak first and decide first has only been amplified by the fact that we can…

— John Podhoretz

Now the great thing is this: we are consecrated and dedicated to God in order that we may thereafter think, speak, meditate,…

— John Calvin

It [motherhood] has changed absolutely everything. I mean, it's changed my life. I think I've changed as a human being more since…

— Jennifer Connelly

I think people often forget how powerful they are. Sometimes it just takes one voice to save a life. When we speak…

— Vivek Murthy

The dead are never exactly seen by the living, but many people seem acutely aware of something changed around them. They speak…

— Alice Sebold

For other people, I can't speak - but, personally, I haven't gotten wise on anything. Certainly, I've been through this and that;…

— Christopher Isherwood

How many of the original songs survive intact from the slave cabins? Probably not many in their original form. Time has transformed…

— Kathleen Battle

Sexuality, eroticism and desire are important for all of us. But that is also the contradiction. How can we speak about pictures…

— Pipilotti Rist

In general, what is written must be easy to read and easy to speak; which is the same.

— Aristotle

Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

— Alfred North Whitehead

We need to be willing to stand up and speak up for what we believe.

— Benjamin Carson

I speak English without an accent, and I speak Spanish without an accent. I really do have the best of both worlds.

— Eva Mendes

Everybody at Barcelona loves Messi. They can't speak highly of him.

— Gordon Strachan

Well, obviously, I'm not allowed to speak about the legal battles, but I love lesbians.

— Jennifer Nettles

Silence is death. If you speak, you die. If you are silent, you die. So speak, and die.

— Tahar Djaout

For with G. D., to be absent from the body is sometimes (not to speak profanely) to be present with the Lord.

— Charles Lamb

If we are transparent, with nothing to hide, the gap between language and being disappears. Then the Muse can speak.

— Stephen Nachmanovitch

My daughter took Latin for three years; she still can't speak it.

— Trey Gowdy

Photography is a foreign language everyone thinks he speaks.

— Philip-Lorca diCorcia

As we learn to speak from the heart we are changing the habits of a lifetime.

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

“We live in a world where we rarely speak out and when someone does, often nobody is there to listen.”

— Jaycee Dugard

If people thought a quarter of what they speak, this world would be heaven.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Heaven... I'm in heaven, and my heart beats so that I can hardly speak.

— Anonymous

'Never again' is the rallying cry for all who believe that mankind must speak out against genocide.

— Jon Corzine