Speak Quotes

To the fool, he who speaks wisdom will sound foolish.

Time will discover everything to posterity; it is a babbler, and speaks even when no question is put.

When a wise man chooses a sane basis for his arguments, it is no great task to speak well.

I didn't grow up speaking Spanish, and the interesting thing was, we would watch these novelas and you didn't have to speak Spanish to understand what was going on.

In my mind these two instruments speak to me in different ways, and the solo stuff seems to be easier to do on the soprano.

I was a die-hard fan of these books [The Hobbit] before the films ever came out. And when I say die-hard, I wasn't the person who could speak Elvish, but I really loved them.

...to speak of them out loud, to speak of their hunger and pain and loneliness and humour, to make them visible so that can not be ravaged in the dark without great consequence.

My wife's French. I mean I speak a bit of French but I've lived amongst French, you know, most of my adult life.

The eyes of this dead lady speak to me For here was love, was not to be drowned out. And here desire, not to be kissed away. The eyes of this dead lady speak to me.

I have tried to write Paradise Do not move Let the wind speak that is paradise. Let the Gods forgive what I have made Let those I love try to forgive what I have made.

I speak of honor-your honor to God-your honor to country-your honor to self. I sincerely believe it to be the cure to most of our ills, both on a national or individual basis.

...for a moment people set down their glasses in county clubs and speak-easies and thought of their old best dreams.

... a great many times in this world, the hardest work we are given is just to sit to one side and neither speak, nor act. It is then prayer becomes an unspeakable blessing.

The British vice is overthinking before we speak, which is really annoying. I love the way that, in America, people are more straightforward.

It can be very intense being an actor; it can be quite a small world. Then you speak to your friend who is a scientist and they have a completely different perspective.

I think it would be unfortunate if people in Saudi Arabia or some parts of the world influenced what we speak about in Denmark. [But] it's a fact of globalization, and we must consider it.

Write to your newspaper. Call your Member of Congress. Email President Obama. Speak out for a cleaner, more stable future for all of us.

To speak robin to a robin is like speaking French to a Frenchman

From one till seven, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese. But I can't speak a word of it now.

We think according to nature. We speak according to rules. We act according to custom.

I've never heard God speak out loud to me. That's not an experience I have had.

If thy words be too luxuriant, confine them, lest they confine thee; he that thinks he never can speak enough may easily speak too much. A full tongue and an empty brain are seldom parted.

I came to New York when I was 21, 22. I couldn't speak English. I knew I wanted to go to fashion school.

We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.

It is as commendable to think well of oneself when alone, as it is ridiculous to speak well of oneself among others.

There is real love just as there are real ghosts; every person speaks of it, few persons have seen it.

After a long silence, Dodge cleared his throat. "I think I speak for all of us when I say, 'Huh?'" -Dodge(obviously)

I speak African. I can even speak Italian.

I still get invitations from all over Europe to speak at dinners, and it's an honour that promoters and charities can use me to create income.

I don't speak ... I operate a machine called language. It creaks and groans, but is mine own.

Frank [Moore Cross], publicly dissects the text but he has a private, passionate relationship to the text that he doesn't often speak of publicly.

I would not speak of Judaism as a Talmudic or Rabbinic religion. It's a Biblical religion.

there is nothing bad to fear; once you have crossed that threshold, all is well. Another world, and you do not have to speak

When I speak or when I offer ideas and explain how the universe seems to work from the point of view that I've understood, it seems to give people a lift - an unshackling or freeing.

Magical realism as a declaration in the text is usually when someone can't speak and then they must be magically reinvigorated in some way.

The world speaks of holy things in the only language it knows, which is worldly language.

If you are going to proclaim the Christian faith, speak about those dimensions of it which you['ve] had some experience with.

Preaching and writing - it's the same. Whether I'm writing to speak or writing to be read in a book, it's the same thing.

Now when I speak about Zen, I have a problem, in the sense that the Zen of today has lost the essence, in my estimation, of what I call "old Zen."

Words like meditation, karma, samskaras, they're just words. You can get into the jargon, you can speak it, but that doesn't mean you'll be any freer.

When I speak of tantric yoga, I'm speaking of a type of yoga that is best practiced by persons who live in society. It's a yoga for the last yuga.

We are many, many selves. We're not just a finite being. The selves don't necessarily speak in words. But they are you.

The Buddha would never speak about enlightenment. The way he taught people about enlightenment was they meditated with him. He exposed them to countless views of the nagual.

Consider the way you speak and your use of language; it's a reflection of your warrior spirit.

The imbalance I speak of in the world, which we see manifested in wars, violence, poverty and other depressed social conditions stems from a lack of knowledge.

Perpetual wakefulness doesn't mean you have all physical knowledge, that you can speak all languages, that you can fix cars...that is a storybook, Hollywood version of the enlightenment experience.

"Body am I, and soul" - so saith the child. And why should one not speak like children?

Concerning great things one should either be silent or speak loftily.

Foolish is my happiness, and foolish things will it speak: it is still too young—so have patience with it!

Acknowledge your will and speak to us all, "This alone is what I will to be!" Hang your own penal code up above you: we want to be its enforcers!