Speak Quotes · Page 161

I felt a longing to compose a radical or root poem that would speak to what has its back turned to me.

— Robert Bly

The man who is looking for a wife will not speak contemptuously of women.

— Vikrant Parsai

I take guidance regularly from NCP chief Sharad Pawar Saheb and occasionally speak Soniaji Gandhi.

— Uddhav Thackeray

That is the key strength of independent academia: we can speak up in spite of corporate or government interests.

— Zeynep Tufekci

“May the life I live speak for me, not my religion or denomination title.”

— Dee Dee M. Scott

The most reckless and treacherous of all theorists is he who professes to let facts and figures speak for themselves.

— Alfred Marshall

I do speak Mandarin, and I also relate to the hunger that China has for culture and architecture and style.

— Vera Wang

I was born to two rebellious people and it is in my blood to speak my mind.

— Pooja Bedi

... a great many times in this world, the hardest work we are given is just to sit to one side and…

— Fannie Ellsworth Newberry

The numbers speak for themselves as far as the hiring, firing and the lack of opportunities for minority and Black head coaches…

— Brian Flores

Why does no one speak of the cultural advantages of the country? For example, is a well groomed, ecologically kept, sustainably fertile…

— Gene Logsdon

After 'Gangs,' people thought that I couldn't speak a sentence in English or that I don't wear jeans or, you know, I…

— Huma Qureshi

...the characters in my books all resemble each other. They live, with minor variations, the same moments, the same perils, and when…

— Jean Genet

“This is why I don't speak sooner. Other people, they talk, talk, talk until words mean nothing. There is no truth.' He…

— Neal Shusterman

We are, all four of us, blood relatives, and we speak a kind of esoteric, family language, a sort of semantic geometry…

— Anonymous

Now that I have the knowledge and I can speak to programmers better and I understand a lot more about what's possible…

— Shaun White

Modesty teaches us to speak of the ancients with respect, especially when we are not very familiar with their works. Newton, who…

— Francis Atterbury

As for my interest in diversity, I believe it is closely aligned with my work on the project, Giving Voice To Values.…

— Mary C. Gentile

It may, indeed, be assumed that a man who loses his temper while he is speaking is endeavouring to speak the truth…

— Anthony Trollope

Real life is about accepting ups and downs, the good and the bad, the possibility of failure as well as the ambition…

— Julian Baggini

I couldn't roam wildly and speak secretly with villagers [in North Korea]. No way you could do that. And honestly, I didn't…

— Werner Herzog

Vin Diesel is crazy, and when I say crazy, I mean it in a good way. He's crazy about Latinos, and he's…

— Nicky Jam

So many companies today, when first confronted by a crisis, go into a bunker mentality. They either say, "No comment," or they…

— Steven Fink

It wasn't exactly a cattle call. I had an agent, and they were seeing people for the parts, so my agent said,…

— Brent Spiner

'Yela' represents hunger, life, light, fire, power. 'Wolf' speaks to my fighting spirit. The soul I put in my music.

— Yelawolf

I'm really articulate when I do my thing - when I speak on the mic, when I do interviews. I'm a colorful…

— Tito Ortiz

To speak with the shadow, you must know the language of the darkness!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

My "drop in the ocean" will contribute to the enlightenment of Europe, so to speak.

— Varg Vikernes

What we are speaks so loudly that our children might not hear what we say

— Quentin L. Cook

Basically take care of your game, and your game will speak for itself.

— Shawn Kemp

We have too often been expected to speak all things to all people and speak everyone else's position but our own.

— Audre Lorde

Do you wish people to speak well of you? Then do not speak at all yourself.

— Blaise Pascal

Artists speak the truth to the public without fear of retribution or damage to their careers.

— Ron Silver

“When something needs to be said, I'll say it even if the whole world grabs me by the neck and tells me…

— Elif Shafak

Though I can speak only tooti futi Gujarati, I can understand it completely.

— Kunal Khemu

Stop holding your truth; speak your truth. Be yourself. It's the healthiest way to be.

— Tiffany Haddish

I want to continually play characters that speak to me, but also are different than what I've just done.

— Santino Fontana

Don't speak ill of someone just because you fail to pursue her. Be a man

— Anonymous

If you feel yourself to be above the mass, speak so as to raise the mass to the height of your argument.

— George Henry Lewes

“Beauty should be the goal of your communication. Learn to speak with godly wisdom.”

— Elizabeth George