Speak Quotes · Page 148

Only library books speak with such wordless eloquence of the power good stories hold over us.

— Stephen King

I may boldly speak In right, though proud oppression will not hear me!

— Thomas Otway

When I was younger, I wouldn't speak up as much, but now that I'm a mom, things have changed.

— Britney Spears

It's really about if you do the work. Work hard; your results will speak for themselves.

— Payal Kadakia

As an artist I come to sing, but as a citizen, I will always speak for peace, and no one can silence…

— Paul Robeson

The German language speaks Being, while all the others merely speak of Being.

— Martin Heidegger

You have to be very careful when you speak French around Kris Marshall.

— Josephine Jobert

The right to be able to speak openly and confidentially to another is, at times, codified legally if not ethically.

— Gad Saad

I used to go down every year for the remembrance of Elvis' birthday. Memphis State College invited me to sit in the…

— Otis Blackwell

“Everything she sang was true. I will leave it to you as to whether the truth can exist with details omitted, or…

— Robin Hobb

For me to speak out against the war in Iraq, you know - most of my fans are lefties anyway, so I…

— Moby

My French is terrible, and my Spanish is even worse. I find Spanish really difficult. They speak so quickly, whereas in German,…

— Eliot Sumner

Any situation where I feel like people are looking at me and I've got to speak is the kind of thing I…

— Jane Fallon

The officers do not beat the men; the officers and men receive equal treatment. Soldiers are free to hold meetings and speak…

— Mao Zedong

But better far it is to speak One simple word, which now and then Shall waken their free nature in the weak…

— James Russell Lowell

I've always really been interested in observing people's postures, the way they speak with their hands, the way they communicate things with…

— Christine and the Queens

This is why I loved the support groups so much, if people thought you were dying, they gave you their full attention.…

— Chuck Palahniuk

There are a zillion possibilities that you can do on a piece of paper; there is no rational way to choose. So…

— Gabrielle Bell

The Photograph is an extended, loaded evidence — as if it caricatured not the figure of what it represents (quite the converse)…

— Roland Barthes

I'm always so pleased when I can get a song or be given a song that really speaks to me and I…

— Josh Groban

All that is not thought is pure nothingness; since we can think only thoughts, and all the words we use to speak…

— Henri Poincare

When it finally came my way and doors opened up for me to do it and to be on stage, it felt…

— Mahershala Ali

The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. They spell it so abominably…

— George Bernard Shaw

I need a little language such as lovers use, words of one syllable such as children speak when they come into the…

— Virginia Woolf

If you don't have a way to speak to ordinary Americans, you're not in the game.

— Gar Alperovitz

My brand is a demography-breaker. It speaks to all homemakers and women from all walks of life and all across society.

— Sandra Lee

Good PR educates people; that's all it is. You can't con people in this business. The products speak for themselves.

— Steve Jobs

I think I've tried to have a platform to speak and to help kids understand learning about baseball.

— Mookie Betts

When people speak disparagingly about others, they are really damaging themselves.

— Chris Eubank Sr

I don't think the public here buy this idea that women and men speak different comedic languages.

— Chris O'Dowd

I'm not a boastful person. I like my actions to speak for me.

— Daniel A. D'Aniello

If you would have God hear you when you pray, you must hear him when he speaks.

— Richard J. Needham

My talent speaks for itself, I ain't gotta answer nobody else's questions. I'm going home, we're gonna have a party!

— James Toney

It never ceases to amaze me the lengths that some people will go to to try and speak to me or meet…

— David Ginola

All I can do is just do stuff while I am alive and hopefully that track record will speak for itself.

— Henry Rollins

If artists cannot speak up for human dignity or rights, then who else will do it?

— Ai Weiwei

He'd half meant to speak but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat.

— Cormac McCarthy

When I see things, I speak my mind. But I'm a quiet leader, if anything.

— Chris Copeland

Monks are not expected to speak about themselves; the message is important, not the person.

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Don't tell readers what to think. Let the action speak for itself.

— Paula McLain