Speak Quotes

There is nothing more fearful for the average person in our society than to stand before a group of people and speak.

I unfortunately don't speak French, but my wife is now fluent in English, which really reflects rather badly on me.

We should not be afraid to speak the truth to our powerful friend the United States.

It wasn't so long ago that it was not popular to speak Gaelic in Ireland because the areas that Gaelic is spoken in were much poorer areas.

This discourse, and the present frame of my mind, lead me rather to speak to those, who by feeling Satan's fiery darts, know assuredly that there is a devil.

From one till seven, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese. But I can't speak a word of it now.

I'm doing a very funny show in which we talk about issues. I speak at Aids charities and things. It's great to do something fun with our days and yet we're told we're doing something important.

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 gravitated towards my elders because I didn't know how to speak or be present with my peers.

I had a very tough childhood. I came here from Italy in the '70s and didn't speak a word of English, so the kids at school tormented me. Truly, it was horrifying the names they called me, and the teachers never really did a thing to stop it.

I speak relatively little, except when I'm at home and I'm asking for things.

When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.

I'm trying to shut up and let my angels speak to me and tell me what I'm supposed to do.

With photography a new language has been created. Now for the first time it is possible to express reality by reality. We can look at an impression as long as we wish, we can delve into it and, so to speak, renew past experiences at will.

It's impossible to speak what it is not noble to do.

There's a good television programme called 'Disco 2.' It's quite good but again it's average, average. It's all on a down play. You know we've got this thing in England to be hip is to speak very down - like John Peel. And that just about sums up England. They don't realize when they talk like that, then that is what they represent - absolutely.

I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.

I've always believed you can get closer to the truth by pretending not to speak it.

Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.

I have to concentrate more intently when people speak. I always have to position myself on their right side so that I can hear out of my left ear. I sometimes get a crick in my neck from listening. But I don't there's too much else.

Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.

I have been able to tap into all the negative things that can happen to me throughout my life by numbing myself to the pain so to speak and kind of being able to vent it through my music.

Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.

The more English is heard in the world, the more gratifying it seems to speak French, and above all to know the culture of our country. They find a kind of French social grace in the language and culture.

Those who speak ill of the spiritual life, although they come and go by day, are like the smith's bellows: they take breath but are not alive.

I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control, but I think education is the way to give new impetus to the poverty question.

What I want the Congress of the United States to do, and frankly what I would like to see the President of the United States of America do, is speak a word of support to the people of Iran.

I don't think any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no longer enduring it.

I want to speak, to sing to total strangers. It's my way of talking to the world.

Sometimes when you make a film you can go away for three months and then come back and live your life. But this struck a much deeper chord. I don't have the ability yet to speak about it in an objective.

All objects, all phases of culture are alive. They have voices. They speak of their history and interrelatedness. And they are all talking at once!