Speaking Quotes

1939 Speaking quotes by 1471 unique authors

I am curious, I love making discoveries, travelling, speaking with people, go shopping. — Maria Grazia Cucinotta
I have written a memoir here and there, and that takes its own form of selfishness and courage. However, generally speaking, I have no interest… — Peter Carey
I was raised in Chicago, so always used Latina. It's what my Father and brothers called ourselves, when we meant the entire Spanish-speaking community of… — Sandra Cisneros
Your work isn't just to learn and say the lines. Your work is to figure out what the chatter in your brain is, that's going… — Sarah Wayne Callies
Some introverts are perfectly comfortable with public speaking; I'm not one of them. — Susan Cain
Game of Thrones' is an amazing show, and I have no problem speaking of the virtues of HBO. — Peter Dinklage
Of course it can be said of jails, too, that they try - by punishing the troublesome - to deter others. No doubt, in certain… — Barbara Deming
You can express a lot of things, a lot of action without speaking. — Catherine Deneuve
When I came back from Bolivia, my Spanish was in some ways as good as my English. I am rusty today. But I am comfortable… — David Dewhurst
Identity politics are wearisome; you don't want to go on speaking for any one group as a writer. — Emma Donoghue
I do a lot of public speaking and presentations and I'll always start with a self-deprecating joke to make everybody feel comfortable with my size… — Warwick Davis
Speaking as a black person, welfare is the worst thing that's ever happened to us. — Charles Evers
You know, frankly speaking, money just doesn't figure largely in my world view. — Norman Finkelstein
Close to birth... I lost, like, 80 percent of my hearing, and I had difficulty speaking. — Lou Ferrigno
I grew up in New York in an English-speaking environment. — Erik Estrada
Shakespeare, he's in the alley with his pointed shoes and his bells, speaking to some French girl who says she knows me well. — Bob Dylan
When we talk about self-confrontations, we are speaking about moral issues rather than social issues. — Asghar Farhadi
The (post) structuralist temper requires too great a depersonalization of the writing/speaking subject. Writing becomes plagiarism; speaking becomes quoting. Meanwhile, we do write, we do… — Ihab Hassan
Are you, or is someone you know, a gadget freak? If so, you doubtless know that Wednesday was iPhone 5 day, the day Apple unveiled… — Paul Krugman
It must be understood that prime matter, and form as well, is neither generated nor corrupted, because every generation is from something to something. Now… — Thomas Aquinas
It is odd to think that there is a word for something which, strictly speaking, does not exist, namely, "rest." We distinguish between living and… — Max Born
Maybe it's because we as writers are alone so often, are so attuned to listening to the run of our own thoughts, that we find… — Les Standiford
Fiction writers come up with some interesting metaphors when speaking of plot. Some say the plot is the highway and the characters are the automobiles.… — James N. Frey
Hello God, if we are still on speaking terms, can you help me? — Dolly Parton
Eight years ago, I was drawn into Keats's world by Andrew Motion's biography. Soon I was reading back and forth between Keats's letters and his… — Jane Campion

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