Speaking Quotes

Speaking out is important for me because everyone should be treated equally.

Yes, after some time spent last year on other commitments, most of them speaking engagements, I am now about halfway through a novel that I hope will come out in 1998.

I believe that the quantum of our knowledge will increase considerably in the coming years and that scientists will continue to be amongst the brave voices speaking out.

But generally speaking, I felt to engage in the political process was to sully oneself to such a degree that whatever came out wasn't worth the trouble put in.

Personally speaking there's only so long you can go from film to film to film. There's an inspiration an actor gets from the stage.

We need more people speaking out. This country is not overrun with rebels and free thinkers. It's overrun with sheep and conformists.

And for a very special group of people, we've provided their only job. I'm speaking of course of the disabled. They have stated they don't want a hand out just a hand. We are happy to give them one.

Though actually the work of man's hands - or, more properly speaking, the work of his travelling feet, - roads have long since come to seem so much a part of Nature that we have grown to think of them as a feature of the landscape no less natural than rocks and trees.

I had formed a black movement, so I would speak for the Trotskyist movement and then walk about a hundred yards to where the black movement was speaking.

I think I'm a bit less inhibited, and not thinking too much before speaking. It's not about being shameful, I'm just a bit more unabashedly myself because of this thing, and it probably started at age 15. I can be around people and say what I think without fear.

I used my mother's radio as a PA system. I'd take the telephone, the speaking part, and take those two leads off and lead them into the radio and the sound would come out of the speaker.

I haven't spoken English with native speakers in several months. I've been speaking Arabic.

I'm engaging my diaphragm as I'm speaking to you right now.

My biggest fear was public speaking, and then having everyone know who I was, it was definitely weird at first. When I first won, it was definitely a culture shock, it was something I wasn't quite ready for.

If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

These are some of the things for which we believe the American people owe no little gratitude to the Dutch; and these are the things for which today, speaking in the name of the American people, we venture to express their heartfelt thanks.

I never found it frustrating not speaking.

I used to feel so shy speaking to girls. It was even worse when they were around their crew because they would diss me.

It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least.

But generally speaking, people weren't fired, art jobs were very hard to get, so something really calamitous had to happen to a person who was working there in order for you to find a space.

Realistically speaking, I don't know how many more years I will want to be acting or will be invited to be.

My dad came from Cuba when he was a teenager not speaking English. And I grew up here speaking Spanglish. That's the world in which I grew up, and that's a world in which a lot of second generation immigrants find themselves.

I worked on my voice for Sweet Dreams, but only to match my speaking voice to Patsy's actual singing voice. That was my way into that character.

I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.

I had the good fortune of speaking with Orson Wells many decades ago and he said 'Success is primarily luck anyway.' And I have been very lucky. Of course, Orson Wells was enormously talented and brilliant - so who am I to argue with him!

Politically speaking, you don't necessarily give away information that allows your enemy to get an upper hand. But at the same time you don't keep reality from the population.

I took a public speaking class in college and managed to make the class laugh a little bit.

I hadn't really noticed that I had a hearing problem. I just thought most people had given up on speaking clearly.

Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something's wrong. He's not right in the brain.

I have received so many messages of support from across the country - women and men speaking out because they agree that contraception needs to be treated as a basic health care service.