Speak Quotes

It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.

~ Henry Moore

I don't know what's more embarrassing, these musicians and actors talking about politics in interviews or the media actually giving them credibility about it. It's absurd that a celebrity could speak out on the economy or politics with no more justification than a hit album or a movie.

~ Paul Stanley

I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.

~ Ed Koch

A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people's lives, a politics that does not speak to and include people, is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail.

~ Paul Wellstone

I have a temperament that doesn't adapt well to politics. It's because I speak my mind so much.

~ Joaquim Barbosa

It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues.

~ Jean De La Bruyère

You know what I have noticed? And this is really sad. Flying first class is less scary than flying coach. They speak to you and they're so nice to you and they want to help you and they know you want a drink before the plane takes off. And they bring it to you without asking. If you're sitting in coach and hoping for a drink, good luck.

~ Hope Davis

We designed a number of features from the ground up, like custom display and optics technology with very high refresh rates and pixel density. We added integrated 3-D audio, a built-in microphone so you can speak to friends inside virtual worlds, and precise mechanical adjustment systems.

~ Brendan Iribe

The only thing that I'd rather own than Windows is English, because then I could charge you two hundred and forty-nine dollars for the right to speak it.

~ Scott Mcnealy

I think 'Actions speak louder than words' is one thing, I think, I always took from my mom. And to this day, I think about that in everything I do.

~ Ginni Rometty

My mother wouldn't allow me to speak slang when I was growing up. But when I got outside, around my friends, it was 'Yo' and 'That's the joint' and 'Yo, what's up?' So I had my game for my friends and my game for my mom.

~ Queen Latifah

I'm more straightforward, and I speak up more than I did before. When I was younger, I wouldn't speak up as much, but now that I'm a mom, things have changed.

~ Britney Spears

I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control, but I think education is the way to give new impetus to the poverty question.

~ Harri Holkeri

From China and India to Turkey and Brazil, when women have gotten access to education, to family planning and to a vital place in the economy, greater prosperity has followed. And when women are free to speak and learn, they temper the extremes of ideology and fanaticism and raise sons who are less likely to become human bombs.

~ David Horsey

Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

~ Rabindranath Tagore

I try to get away from the pits as quickly as I can. I speak to my engineer when I get out of the car, usually there's some press to do, then I will go off and have a shower and get my dry, clean overalls and clothing on. I'll have a massage, stretch and something to eat. I don't sleep, but I try to close my eyes for a while.

~ Allan Mcnish

In Paris, one is always reminded of being a foreigner. If you park your car wrong, it is not the fact that it's on the sidewalk that matters, but the fact that you speak with an accent.

~ Roman Polanski

If I can drive down the road in my car and listen to XM satellite, and when a song gets beamed into my car, it can tell me who wrote the song and what the damn lyrics are, why, when you broadcast a digital signal of a film, can't it speak to your television to set up a list of settings to show the film in the way that it was meant to be shown?

~ Jeff Nichols

As an artist I come to sing, but as a citizen, I will always speak for peace, and no one can silence me in this.

~ Paul Robeson

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

~ Benjamin Franklin

I was one of those weird kids who didn't really speak or smile. I remember my teachers would call home and ask if everything was fine at home because I would never smile. Then I got into this phase, from maybe fourth to eighth grade, where my personality just did a 180.

~ Alessia Cara

My mother-in-law speaks not a word of English. I speak not a word of Tajiki. So I smile at her ingratiatingly and she fixes me with a beady eye.

~ Wilbur Smith

I try to speak of a love that not necessarily romantic. I think there is so much love between people and so much love people want to give but it's harder and harder these days to show that, to celebrate that, you know?

~ Emeli Sande

There is something about a Luger that separates it from all other handguns, and Luger devotees and Luger society members speak of it in romantic terms that must sound plain nuts to those who consider themselves level-headed.

~ Dick Cavett

I was the female lead in a romantic comedy. It's a little indie film that we shot in China called 'America Town,' starring Daniel Henney and Bill Paxton. I actually had to speak Chinese in the film. It was funny because I found out I was doing the film and then a week later, I was in Shanghai.

~ Eliza Coupe

My parents and I didn't speak for 10 years. It took a long time to rebuild that relationship.

~ Gilbert Baker

Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.

~ Allen Ginsberg

I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.

~ Wislawa Szymborska

You know, people speak in poetry all the time. They just don't realize it.

~ Sherman Alexie

Poetry, at its best, is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak.

~ Jim Harrison

When you write, it's just a much more crystalline, compressed version of the voice you think with - though not the one you speak with. I think your writing voice is your laser-guided missile. It's the poetry part of you.

~ Douglas Coupland

In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.

~ Richard M. Nixon

When I hit a block, regardless of what I am writing, what the subject matter is, or what's going on in the plot, I go back and I read Pablo Neruda's poetry. I don't actually speak Spanish, so I read it translation. But I always go back to Neruda. I don't know why, but it calms me, calms my brain.

~ Téa Obreht

A play is basically a long, formalistic polemic. You can write it without the poetry, and if you do, you may have a pretty good play. We know this because we see plays in translation. Not many people speak Norwegian or Danish or whatever guys like Ibsen spoke, or Russian - yet we understand Chekhov and the others.

~ David Mamet

I realised I'd spent a lot of time in my poetry trying to find a way of talking about that whereof we cannot speak.

~ John Burnside

Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the very word poetry scares people. They think of their grade school teachers reciting 'Hiawatha' and they groan.

~ Erica Jong

I think I felt at some point that I couldn't understand poetry or that it was beyond me or it didn't speak to my experience. I think that was because I hadn't yet found the right poems to invite me in.

~ Natasha Trethewey

Poetry, as odd as it is, and as hard to figure out as it is, many times, it's almost something that we're used to. It's kind of like a dream language that we had centuries ago, so that when we speak poetically or write a poem about what's going on, a real difficult issue that's facing our communities, people listen.

~ Juan Felipe Herrera

I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it. It will always be too simple to be discussed in assemblies.

~ Boris Pasternak

In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.

~ George Santayana