Speak Quotes

I couldn't speak Japanese very well, passport regulations were changing, I felt British, and my future was in Britain. And it would also make me eligible for literary awards. But I still think I'm regarded as one of their own in Japan.

No man speaketh, or should speak, of his prince, that which he hath not weighed whether it will consist with that veneration which should be preserved inviolate to him.

He that will write well in any tongue, must follow this counsel of Aristotle, to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do: and so should every man understand him, and the judgment of wise men allow him.

We decided to speak publicly about suicide because we wanted to make a difference in other people's lives.

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.

My training in music and composition then led me to a kind of musical language process in which, for example, the sound of the words I play with has to expose their true meaning against their will so to speak.

Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.

It took me a year to really learn the American lingo. I really feel for people who are coming here and don't speak English at all. It must be hell.

I work with youth offenders in LA, I've heard them speak and see how music manipulates them.

I went from somebody who didn't sing to somebody who didn't speak.

Ideas rose in clouds; I felt them collide until pairs interlocked, so to speak, making a stable combination.

I was always getting run-down from jet lag and being in strange towns where I didn't speak the language or know what the food was like.

The security of which we speak is to be attained by the development of international law through an international organization based on the principles of law and justice.

My opposition to the Vietnam War. I was the first Hollywood actor to speak out against it.

I never speak ill of dead people or live judges.

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

To have God speak to the heart is a majestic experience, an experience that people may miss if they monopolize the conversation and never pause to hear God's responses.

Ninety percent of people's nightmares is standing in front of 1,000 people. Did you know that? And having to speak. You would have thought it would have been a madman tying you up and taking your eyes out.

When I wear high heels I have a great vocabulary and I speak in paragraphs. I'm more eloquent. I plan to wear them more often.

About the Saint's amorous adventures, by the way, I can't speak so brazenly.

You who speak languages, you are such liars.

I'm always told that what I say is controversial. Why is it controversial? Because I speak from a tradition that has now fallen out of favor with the dominant media in this country. And so when I say things like marriage should be between one man and one woman, I'm called a bigot.

If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.

When I speak to students and they ask how much money you can make in art, as if that is a reason to persue it, I tell them to do something else.

It is terrible to speak of you, Liberty, for one who lives without you.

Some of my fans have said that because I've been able to speak about my issues, that they're not afraid to speak about theirs, which is an amazing feeling.

In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.

Whilst in Prussia poets only speak of the love of country as one of the dearest of all human affections, here there is no man who does not feel, and describe with rapture, how much he loves his country.

I didn't speak English until I came to Pittsburgh.