Speak Quotes
7113 Speak quotes by 4090 unique authors
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Conversations...begin with the sort of imaginative engagement you get when you read a novel or watch a movie or attend to a work of art…
— Kwame Anthony Appiah
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Ariel Gordon is superbly, supremely, a poet of the body. She finds words for the physicality of the forest, of the garden, of pregnancy. Hump…
— Robert Kroetsch
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A Congresswoman must look like a girl, act like a lady, think like a man, speak on any given subject with authority and most of…
— Unknown Author
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We all need to stomp out balkanization. No Spanish radio stations, no Spanish billboards, no Spanish TV stations, no Spanish newspapers. This is America, speak…
— Unknown Author
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If your eyes could speak, what would they say?
— Ben Schnetzer
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There are persons who can speak no more, whose very names have vanished. Yet a name excised from the verge where it once lived still…
— Unknown Author
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The Forty Rules of Love is a wise, joyous page-turner... and one that speaks urgently to our war-ravaged times.
— Thrity Umrigar
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It's always been difficult for me to speak and express my innermost thoughts. I prefer to write. When I sit down and write, words grow…
— Unknown Author
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We're constantly getting these messages to mind our own business and look the other way if we want to be well liked, to not tell…
— Kelly Cutrone
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I wasn't bullied or anything at school, but I was quite shy and didn't speak up too much in class.
— Matthew Lewis
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I do not say with words. I do not say it with images either.… I do not say, I show. I show people who move…
— Eric Rohmer
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I implore you, I entreat you and I challenge you to speak with conviction. To say what you believe in a manner that bespeaks the…
— Taylor Mali
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I spoke French a bit, and I could speak a bit of this and that, and when you were taught those things by people who…
— Diane Cilento
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Compassion is not a dirty word. Compassion is not a sign of weakness. In my view, compassion in politics and in public policy is in…
— Kevin Rudd
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An organization which claims to speak for the needs of a community must speak in the tone of that community.
— Stokely Carmichael
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I did get bullied and I did get picked on and I did have that feeling in my gut of being incredibly self-conscious. I naturally…
— Heather Matarazzo
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I just have a belief that when there is a rare script out there that speaks to you, you have to stick with it. You…
— Heather Matarazzo
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The movie people would have nothing to do with me until they heard me speak in a Broadway play, then they all wanted to sign…
— W.C. Fields
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I want to feel both the beauty and the pain of the age we are living in. I want to survive my life without becoming…
— Terry Tempest Williams
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A work of art does not need an explanation. The work has to speak for itself. The work may be subject to many interpretations, but…
— Louise Bourgeois
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Am I embarrassed to speak for a less than perfect democracy? Not one bit. Find me a better one. Do I suppose there are societies…
— Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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For its part, Government will listen. We will strive to listen in new ways - to the voices of quiet anguish, to voices that speak…
— Richard M. Nixon
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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
— Seneca the Younger
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I rarely speak about God. To God, yes. I protest against Him. I shout at Him. But to open a discourse about the qualities of…
— Elie Wiesel
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To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made of. I have always wagered against God…
— Andre Breton
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