Spokes Quotes · Page 36

Without thinking, [Will] spoke. 'Halt? Are you awake?' 'No.' The ill humor in the one-word reply was unmistakable. 'Oh. Sorry.' 'Shut up.'…

— John Flanagan

When I discovered Gil Scott-Heron, I discovered a musical hero, a man who spoke baritone truth to power over jazzy funk at…

— Will Hermes

Then they gave me a loaf of bread and told me to walk through the forest and give some to anyone who…

— Patricia C. Wrede

You write because you don't talk very well, and maybe one of the reasons that I was determined to write was that…

— John Updike

We're going on a, um, windmill tour later this week." If I'd wanted to shut them all up, I'd definitely succeeded. They…

— Richelle Mead

Because we spoke so loudly, opponents of reproductive health access demonized and smeared me and others on the public airwaves. These smears…

— Sandra Fluke

[Harriet Tubman] spoke passionately about her parents, her friends, shared stories about her childhood - learning about all these elements and aspects…

— Aisha Hinds

There is an old story from the Eastern tradition that says that when the gods created the universe, they found a place…

— Stephen Kendrick

I had no idea what they were saying in Italian as a child, they spoke too quickly on the radio. But I…

— Dominic Chianese

I spoke at the University of Georgia, and a whole contingent of Tea Party people in Hell's Angels regalia came in and…

— Bill Ayers

They didn't do this because they have facts, because they have solid proof against me. They did it because the president spoke…

— Augustin Misago

God spoke to me.” Don't let the voice of the darkness, tell you that you are not worth that God would not…

— Louie Giglio

The bright, frosty day declined as they walked and spoke together. The sun dipped in the river far behind them, and the…

— Charles Dickens

Kinship with all creatures of the earth, sky and water was a real and active principle. In the animal and bird world…

— Luther Standing Bear

Hillary Clinton has not done an interview with me during the campaign season. I spoke to her years ago but not this…

— Maria Bartiromo

Each man, if he attempts to join himself to others, is on all sides cramped and diminished of his proportion; and the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Pope Francis] symbolically took the migrant south-north route to the United States by going to Cuidad Juarez on the border with Texas,…

— Sylvia Poggioli

I did not know whether I would ever speak to her or not or, if I spoke to her, how I could…

— James Joyce

It [9/11 event] was aimed at symbols: the World Trade Center, the heart of American capitalism, and the Pentagon, the headquarters of…

— Edward Said

Einstein ... always spoke to me of Rutherford in the highest terms, calling him a second Newton.

— Chaim Weizmann

We spoke about our dreams and how we always felt safe in them, no matter how bad everthing else seemed. He told…

— Melina Marchetta

I just always knew that I lived in two worlds. There was the world of my house and community, but to make…

— Samuel L. Jackson

A prisoner lived in solitary confinement for years. He saw and spoke to no one and his meals were served through an…

— Anthony de Mello

Catherine" she paused. I waited, tapping my finger on my desk. Then she spoke words that had me almost falling out of…

— Jeaniene Frost

Julian spoke with the clear, unequivocal lucidity of madmen who have escaped the hypocrisy of having to abide by a reality that…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon