Speak Quotes

The invisible thing called a Good Name is made up of the breath of numbers that speak well of you.

Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines to speak?

I speak for a lot of church groups, youth groups, schools, colleges and do personal appearances. I've done conventions and trade shows. A lot of different little hats.

Before you speak ask yourself if what you are going to say is true, is kind, is necessary, is helpful. If the answer is no, maybe what you are about to say should be left unsaid.

It is one of the most effective attitudes of the neurotic to measure thumbs down, so to speak, a real person by an ideal, since in doing so he can depreciate him as much as he wishes.

As writers we must, from our very opening sentence, speak with authority to our readers.

If anyone at my funeral has a long face, I'll never speak to him again.

I think my numbers speak for themselves.

In Psalm 72, Solomon prays for power and fame but he says the purpose of influence is to speak up for others and one is the immigrant. He doesn't delineate between legal and illegal.

When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

When you consider that you're a character that doesn't speak, but you've still got to react to the other actors, you've got to make a noise of some kind.

I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.

In order to be a diplomat, one must speak a number of languages, including doubletalk.

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of "crackpot" than the stigma of conformity.

When you know something in your heart, you better not be quiet about it. You better speak out about it.

On issues relating to taxes, you don't always speak with one voice.

Language is an archaeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.

Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.

I prefer to speak of 'interdimensionals' rather than 'extraterrestrials' because the latter has connotations of 'little green men' and all the other cliche responses. Nor does it tell the full story.

The words of the songs speak for themselves.

I hate injustice, and I can't help but speak against it. But I don't want to get involved in politics.

Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow.

After the war, prompted by the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris, I entered Parliament so that a priest could speak out for the poor, as canon law at that time still permitted.

If I have to speak in public, I am terrified.

Everybody in Spain is sick of me. But in America, there's curiosity about the new kid on the block who doesn't speak English very well. The attention makes me feel vulnerable, which is something I hadn't felt in a while. But I like it.

I was raised to speak out about politics and the world around me. I would do it whether I was in the public or not. It is the way I was taught. The American way.

I speak Mandarin and can read and write a little. I took a few classes at Harvard to get better in my reading and writing skills.

It's like learning a language; you can't speak a language fluently until you find out who you are in that language, and that has as much to do with your body as it does with vocabulary and grammar.

Nature can refuse to speak but she cannot give a wrong answer.

I don't even know how to speak up for myself, because I don't really have a father who would give me the confidence or advice.