Speak Quotes

Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.

The only way change will ever happen is if we speak up, and we have to know that it actually has an impact. Because we have a lot more power than we think we do, I think.

Every child, woman, and man should possess license to speak or sing in his or her true voice.

Some laws are wrong, and we have an obligation to speak out against those laws wherever they are.

I have a B.A. in Spanish, so briefly I thought that somebody might pay me to speak Spanish badly in another country, like Norway.

Resounding…with wit, courage, and compassion. Skinny will speak to everyone who has ever felt invisible or unlovable.

I wear [American flag] all the time. It represents my freedom to speak about exactly what I want to, whenever I want to.

I said it in Hebrew—I said it in Dutch— I said it in German and Greek; But I wholly forgot (and it vexes me much) That English is what you speak!

A strong new presence in poetry . . . Kei Miller's is a voice we will hear much more of, for it speaks and sings with rare confidence and authority.

What people speak of as adventure is something nobody in his right mind would seek out, and it becomes romantic only when one is safely at home.

I was a woman before I was an abolitionist. I must speak for the women.

Everybody has a personal decision to make but hopefully my actions speak louder than words.

How to overcome that seemingly impossible issue... Pray more words about it than you speak.

If we want to be heard we must speak in a language the listener can understand and on a level at which the listener is capable of operating.

When I heard him speak at the DNC [in 2004] I started supporting him. Then I endorsed him on the anniversary of my father's assassination this year. So I am a diehard [Barack] Obama supporter.

He who speaks the truth must keep one foot in the stirrup.

Perfect grammar - persistent, continuous, sustained - is the fourth dimension, so to speak; many have sought it, but none has found it.

I have traveled more than anyone else, and I have noticed that even the angels speak English with an accent.

It is a different world and they [the Supreme Court] should speak for justice, not prejudice.... I seek justice, not in some distant tomorrow, not in some study commission, but now while I Iive.

The highest and most precious treasure we receive of God is, that we can speak, hear, see, etc.; but how few acknowledge these as God's special gifts, much less give God thanks for them.

Christ desires nothing more of us than that we speak of him.

When God wants to speak and deal with us, he does not avail himself of an angel but of parents, or the pastor, or of our neighbor.

I try to speak in a manner that allows people to tell me apart from my political adversaries. And I speak in a manner that the people can understand. For me, that isn't populism.

Learn how to communicate, learn how to speak.

I feel like most of the objects coming through the ports are pretty useless. It sort of speaks to this larger point of how much we're actually taking in versus how much we really need.

I at least felt the obligation to speak clearly [in 'The Last Tycoon']. This is pre-Brando and pre-James Dean. Nobody mumbled back then.

Go out and speak for the inarticulate and the submerged.

God is the word that speaks itself.

Go to countries where you don't speak the language. Eat food that looks like you may not like it. Read all of the holy books.

I'm not going to parse the statement. You've got the statement I made earlier and the statement speaks for itself.

I speak better English than this villain, Bush.

So I decided the only place I can speak to the world is from outside Israel.

Many an author will speak of writing, in his best work, more than he actually knows.

Read, Read, and then Read some more. Always Read. Find the voices that speak most to YOU. This is your pleasure and blessing, as well as responsibility!

Wait until you are hungry to say something, until there is an aching in you to speak.

All Juleps are made for present use, and therefore it is in vain to speak of their duration.

Scars speak more loudly than the sword that caused them.

All things that speak of heaven speak of peace.

If someone separated the art of counting and measuring and weighing from all the other arts, what was left of each (of the others) would be, so to speak, insignificant.

Well, I'm really not supposed to speak to strangers, but we've met before.

Let's just say that I have a tendency if I am uncomfortable in a situation to speak my mind.

The confessions don't speak with one voice. They are more like a cluster of closely-related but distinct voices - a kind of choir, if you like.

It is but a small merit to observe silence, but it is a grave fault to speak of matters on which we should be silent.

In the night, I wish to speak with the angel to find out if she recognizes my eyes, if she will ask me: do you see Eden? And I’ll reply: Eden burns.

The proof of a high education is the ability to speak about complex matters as simply as possible.

Nature paints the best part of a picture, carves the best parts of the statue, builds the best part of the house, and speaks the best part of the oration.

I dwell 'neath the shades of Harvard In the State of the Sacred Cod, Where the Lowells speak only to Cabots And the Cabots speak only to God

The people are going to speak. I'm not going to have people who say, 'You can't do this, you can't do that'. I'm going to fight for the taxpayers like I always have.

When you open your mouth to speak, you reveal a great deal. The words you use and the way you speak are like a blueprint of who you are deep inside.

Where you are tender, you speak your plural.