Spokes Quotes · Page 4

He stole my breathe away the moment we first spoke. He's my air." -Sadie White

— Abbi Glines

“To this day, good English usually means the English wealthy and powerful people spoke a generation or two ago.”

— Jack Lynch

Ferrari never spoke to me again. He was a great man, I admit, but it was so very easy to upset him.

— Ferruccio Lamborghini

They spoke very little of their mutual feeling; pretty phrases and warm expressions being probably unnecessary between such tried friends.

— Thomas Hardy

Quite a small spoke is enough to stop a wheel - even a mighty big wheel - if it's going too fast.

— Ethel M. Dell

I was on the Johnny Carson show, I believe 114 or 104 times. And aside from those times on the air, I…

— Tony Randall

And as he spoke, I was thinking, 'the kind of stories that people turn life into, the kind of lives people turn…

— Philip Roth

Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke and eloquence of eyes.

— Homer

love wasn't the soft, silky words the poets spoke of. Love,with it's twin edges, was the one factor that weakened so many…

— Nora Roberts

What was I like? I had a high-pitched voice. Sounded a bit like a girl. Spoke with a Stoke accent, tremendously naive.…

— Robbie Williams

I shook my head no. For minutes, neither of us spoke a word. It breathed between us, what he had said, the…

— Khaled Hosseini

Meryl [Stripe]spoke out about the low percentage of female critics on Rotten Tomatoes. Why are there 760 male critics and just 168…

— Catherine Hardwicke

The poor child was the drudge of the household, and was always in the wrong. He was, however, the most bright and…

— Charles Perrault

The first time I spoke publicly about the Stanford Prison Experiment, Stanley Milgram told me: "Your study is going to take all…

— Philip Zimbardo

When I started, there weren't that many kids doing it in the city, but the in the wave after me there were…

— Anonymous

Frankly, the reason I joined MENSA is because I was dating a guy at the time who spoke five languages and could…

— Ashley Rickards

First of all, [St. Stephen's] is a radical church. It was one of the first DC churches to have gay ceremonies. A…

— Ian MacKaye

She felt him tremble with the force of his need. He spoke just beneath her ear, his voice thick with tormented pleasure.…

— Lisa Kleypas

A great dread fell on him, as if he was awaiting the pronouncement of some doom that he had long foreseen and…

— Anonymous

Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you-trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many…

— William Shakespeare

Eleanor Roosevelt loved to write. She was a wonderful child writer. I mean, she wrote beautiful essays and stories as a child.…

— Blanche Wiesen Cook

I was living in New York at the time of the 9/11 attacks. And I remember, you know, in those weeks that…

— Salman Rushdie

Creation was given to people as a clean window through which the light of God could shine into people's souls. Sun and…

— Thomas Merton

The stunning part was that one time Neil McElroy the Secretary of Defense who was the father of one of our classmates…

— Madeleine Albright

I spoke without fear of contradiction. I simply did not suffer self-doubt.

— Elia Kazan

I watched 'Rocky' and 'Raging Bull' and 'Taxi Driver' over and over again. They spoke to you, man.

— Paddy Considine

I wanted to create an album that spoke all the musical languages I loved.

— Sho Baraka

When you first entered the restaurant, I thought you were handsome... and then, of course, you spoke.

— Helen Hunt

Monaco was my first race of the season and I spoke with a number of people and all seemed to be very…

— Martin Sorrell

What they say about footballers being ignorant is rubbish. I spoke to a couple yesterday and they are quite intelligent.

— Raquel Welch

The watch-dog's voice that bay'd the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.

— Oliver Goldsmith

The theory of the teacher with all these immigrant kids was that if you spoke English loudly enough they would eventually understand.

— E. L. Doctorow

Gracious to all, to none subservient, Without offense he spoke the word he meant

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Jem spoke with enormous care; talking to Will about anything personal was like trying not to startle away a wild animal.

— Cassandra Clare

I would love to be a spokes model for Karl Lagerfeld or Balenciaga or something like that.

— Johnny Weir

Apart from the resurrection of Jesus, the eschatological orientation of the church appears as the spoke of a wheel without a hub.

— H. Richard Niebuhr

I am Oz, the Great and Terrible," spoke the Beast, in a voice that was one great roar. Who are you, and…

— L. Frank Baum

No reason to get excited,' the thief, he kindly spoke, There are many here among us who feel that life is but…

— Bob Dylan

Nelson Mandela also spoke about how, as a human being, he's made mistakes.

— Kumi Naidoo

The swifter hand doth the swift words outrun: Before the tongue hath spoke the hand hath done.

— Martial