Speak Quotes

If you speak or write truth about powerful men, they become your enemies.

I need music. It's like my heartbeat, so to speak. It keeps me going no matter what's going on - bad games, press, whatever!

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost.

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.

Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.

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.

If I may take the liberty to speak for science at least, today his name and his prizes are without a peer in the world. He not only elevates science but he influences it as well.

I have had fun being who I became, so to speak.

No notes. You speak from deep in your heart. It's easy.

I want my tennis to speak for everything.

You frighten a lot of scientists. If they say that climate is not changing, they lose their research grants. And some people cannot afford that; they become silent, or a few of us speak up, because we think that it's for the honesty of science, that we have to do it.

There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.

Some of you may have been hoping that today I would speak about Lucien Bouchard's latest economic theories. But I have decided to spare him for the time being: after all, he is a man.

People who speak in metaphors should shampoo my crotch.

Man does not speak because he thinks; he thinks because he speaks. Or rather, speaking is no different than thinking: to speak is to think.

My role on television is one of helping people reexamine the assumptions that they hold. I regard Dr. King. You would never hear me get up and speak without in some way, shape or form, referencing, Dr. King.

This disease leaves people bedridden. I've gone through phases where I couldn't roll over in bed. I couldn't speak. To have it called 'fatigue' is a gross misnomer.

Some years ago I became president of Columbia University and learned within 24 hours to be ready to speak at the drop of a hat, and I learned something more, the trustees were expected to be ready to speak at the passing of the hat.

I don't read music, which is a shame, actually, and I shouldn't even speak of it because it's embarrassing, but it's true.

My CIA godfather told me he'd never heard any American speak Japanese so well.

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

I try to speak my points of view about black America, and how I feel about black men and the role that black men should play in their lives with their children and in their lives with their women.

It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

In days when the public safety is imminently threatened, and the fate of a nation may hang upon a single act, we owe frank speech, above all other men, to him who is highest in authority. I shall speak to you as man to man.

Let's stand up. Let's speak with pride about our morals and our values and redouble our effort to elect more conservative Republicans.

Old age is, so to speak, the sanctuary of ills: they all take refuge in it.

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.

I've always had to force myself to make friends and speak to people. My parents were quiet, and it took me a while to get used to the fact that people talk about their feelings, their problems.

I was in Woody Allen's Stardust Memories in 1980. It was only a bit part and I didn't get to speak but I felt that I was in a real movie and heading where I had always wanted to be.