Speak Quotes

I don't really care where I work, actually, because you know making a movie is like living in movie world. There's such a secluded world, and the director is the king ruling the country, and everybody's building this little town to speak in symbolism.

It is always disarming to treat with the enemy, so to speak.

Nearly all Italian officers speak French.

Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.

For people to understand me when I travel, I speak with my hands.

Buy a steak for a player on another club after the game, but don't even speak to him on the field. Get out there and beat them to death.

You walk through a series of arches, so to speak, and then, presently, at the end of a corridor, a door opens and you see backward through time, and you feel the flow of time, and realize you are only part of a great nameless procession.

We are all members of a single humanity, inside our hearts we all speak the same language, we all love our children and our parents, we all live in the same world.

Backbite. To speak of a man as you find him when he can't find you.

But why shouldn't I speak out? Don't you speak out in this country?

The feeling of not belonging, of not being entirely worthy, of being sometimes hostage to your own sensibilities. Those things speak to me very personally.

Always speak politely to an enraged Dragon.

You speak of Lord Byron and me; there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task.

I won't ever got to a place that's racist, and I will tell everybody else not to and I'll speak against them. But it should be their right to be racist.

If it were bad songs, yeah, I'd speak up, but they're not bad songs.

In the studios days, the public's perception of movie stars was much different, because the stars were so much less exposed. This made them seem more special, more unearthly. Today they're no longer perceived as different - they've become human, so to speak.

Speaking English is like tongue-twist for me. I can speak each word perfect, but then you have to string them together like, 'Blah, blah, blah.' That's when I get crazy.

Anyone who attempts to relate his life loses himself in the immediate. One can only speak of another.

Whoever rises to deliver the inaugural Address of 2013 will speak to a nation in which the American Dream is under profound economic and cultural pressure. This is perhaps best measured by the state of the middle class.

The administration needs to speak honestly with the American people. Exaggerating our progress in defeating the insurgency or in creating an Iraqi army paints a dangerous picture.

It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak.

If the people should elect, they will never fail to prefer some man of distinguished character, or services; some man, if he might so speak of continental reputation.

I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!

Don't speak evil of someone if you don't know for certain, and if you do know ask yourself, why am I telling it?

There are a lot of wonderful things created in our culture that have been ignored that can speak to them.

Let's not interfere with justice... Let's let justice speak.

Your English style will no doubt put all the other gentlemen to bed. I speak figuratively, of course.

You know what I have noticed? And this is really sad. Flying first class is less scary than flying coach. They speak to you and they're so nice to you and they want to help you and they know you want a drink before the plane takes off. And they bring it to you without asking. If you're sitting in coach and hoping for a drink, good luck.

I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents.

I try to speak of a love that not necessarily romantic. I think there is so much love between people and so much love people want to give but it's harder and harder these days to show that, to celebrate that, you know?