Spoke Quotes

808 Spoke quotes by 624 unique authors

When I grew up I saw females doing certain things, and I thought I had to do that exactly. The female rappers of my day… — Nicki Minaj
There's a gap somehow between empathy and activism. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke of 'soul force' - something that emanates from a deep truth… — Sue Monk Kidd
True myths may serve for thousands of years as an inexhaustible source of intellectual speculation, religious joy, ethical inquiry, and artistic renewal. The real mystery… — Ursula K. Le Guin
I believe the American people spoke loud and clear to the Bush Administration in yesterdays election that they disapprove of the current direction in the… — Jim Clyburn
She spoke and loosened from her bosom the embroidered girdle of many colors into which all her allurements were fashioned. In it was love and… — Homer
Jesus made everything so simple and we have made it so complicated. He spoke to the people in short sentences and everyday words, illustrating His messages with… — Billy Graham
A novice was trying to fix a broken Lisp machine by turning the power off and on. Knight, seeing what the student was doing, spoke… — Danny Hillis
In the circle where I was raised, I knew of no one knowledgeable in the visual arts, no one who regularly attended musical performances, and… — Shirley Hazzard
If I never spoke of hell, I should think I had kept back something that was profitable, and should look on myself as an accomplice… — J C Ryle
When, at the end of the 1960s, I became interested in the Nazi era, it was a taboo subject in Germany. No one spoke about… — Anselm Kiefer
When I knew I couldn't suffer another moment of pain, and tears fell on my bloody bindings, my mother spoke softly into my ear, encouraging… — Lisa See
Once on the streets of New York a woman called the police because her child spoke to me. — Theda Bara
I see dancehall reggae and hip-hop as fused together, When I was a kid, they were the two kinds of music that spoke to me… — Sean Paul
I'm a big hip-hop fan since being a kid. It was the first music that spoke to me and made me feel like, 'Yeah. — Sean Paul
For ten centuries Christianity, armed with the omnipotence of the Church and State and opposed by no competition, was able to deprave, debase, and falsify… — Mikhail Bakunin
Ferrari never spoke to me again. He was a great man, I admit, but it was so very easy to upset him. — Ferruccio Lamborghini
We know next to nothing with any certainty about Pythagoras, except that he was not really called Pythagoras. The name by which he is known… — Daniel Tammet
I love Koscielny, I’ve seen him a lot. He has good leg speed, which reminds me of Lilian [Thuram]. The last time we spoke I… — Marcel Desailly
Paleontologist Niles Eldredge, a prominent evolutionist, said: 'The doubt that has infiltrated the previous, smugly confident certitude of evolutionary biology’s last twenty years has inflamed… — Niles Eldredge
I had a professor one time... He said, 'Class, you will forget almost everything I will teach you in here, so please remember this: that… — Rich Mullins
In the past, we spoke of poverty, misery only in the south. Now there is a lot of misery, a lot of bad that creates… — Ahmed Ben Bella
Frankly, the reason I joined MENSA is because I was dating a guy at the time who spoke five languages and could solve a Rubik's… — Ashley Rickards
The ancient sages never put their teachings in a systematic form. They spoke in paradoxes, for they were afraid of uttering half-truths. They began by… — Okakura Kakuzo
Elvis Presley's music never meant anything to me. Mambo was the music I loved - it spoke to me. — Arne Glimcher
Baseball has traditionally possessed a wonderful lack of seriousness. The game's best player, Babe Ruth, was a Rabelaisian fat man, and its most loved manager,… — Thomas Boswell

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