Speaks Quotes

I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.

My mother speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, etc. By the same post I had several letters from anxious relatives, telling me that it was my duty to come home and thus ease my mother's anxiety.

With the coming of radio as a mass medium, suddenly the world changed. It became about, 'Can this leader project emotional connection through the way he speaks on the radio?' And the anxiety about whether he could do that, we've inherited.

I have a very lively and colourful show. It's two hours of hits and the music speaks for itself.

Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something outside himself like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.

I realised a long time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English, Spanish, Yiddish, Swahili, any other language. Pure melody goes outside time.

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.

But I'm so slow on it because I find it terribly hard writing blind on computers. The computer speaks to me, but it's just so slow, I'm so terribly slow using it.

When affection only speaks, truth is not always there.

The landscape you grow up in speaks to you in a way that nowhere else does.

There is a great deal of cyberpunk that I admire, especially the work of William Gibson which I think is excellent. Somehow he speaks from his own heart and cyber punk is what comes out.

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.

When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics.

I am a woman of the 21st Century who is self-assured and speaks my mind.

A child speaks more sense than an adult half of the time.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Even Echo speaks not on these radiant moors.

I'd just like to see a role for women where someone who isn't traditionally attractive is not portraying the best friend. You know, the character that only speaks in questions. 'Gee, are you gonna go out with him? Do you think I look fat?'

I think that a song, when it works, never mind a piece of long form music, even a song is something that speaks to itself but has a language all of its own, ideally.

Love can be understood only "from the inside," as a language can be understood only by someone who speaks it, as a world can be understood only by someone who lives in it.

Past performance speaks a tremendous amount about one's ability and likelihood for success.

New fathers, political prisoners, traumatised presidential aides, resolute schoolboys, MEPs addressing unfriendly chambers - we all find that Shakespeare has magically anticipated our precise circumstances. How he was possible, I still don't understand; but there isn't a day I'm not grateful that he speaks to me in my own language.

I want a language that speaks the truth.

Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have.

Vivid images are like a beautiful melody that speaks to you on an emotional level. It bypasses your logic centers and even your intellect and goes to a different part of the brain.

One may speak about anything on earth with fire, with enthusiasm, with ecstasy, but one only speaks about oneself with avidity.

The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.

You'll notice that Nancy Reagan never drinks water when Ronnie speaks.

The only problem was that I couldn't communicate with Dario. He speaks Italian and I don't. We had a translator the whole time. I just felt that something was lost with the go between. He was a delightful man, but I wish we could have spoken the same language.

A more important reason is that the bands will intuitively trust someone they think is a peer, and who speaks fondly of the same formative rock and roll experiences.