Speak Quotes

When I speak in English, my expressions become different. My attitude, too. I'm not sure why, but there really is a difference. My hands move differently when I speak English.

~ Gong Li

When you speak directly at things and don't say you're going to try to do something or that you hope to do something, the universe will work with you. Think about it this way - a boomerang goes out and comes back to you if you throw it. If you throw it out at the universe, it will come back down to you on Earth.

~ J. B. Smoove

I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment.

~ Paul Tillich

The truth is, truly passionate media creators don't get into the media business to make huge gains from spectacular unicorn exits. When it happens, we certainly all cheer (and perhaps secretly hope it happens to us). But the fact is, we make media because we don't know what else to do with ourselves. It's how we're wired, so to speak.

~ John Battelle

I will not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with respect of the past.

~ Woodrow Wilson

People always love and respect characters who speak the truth, even if the truth hurts.

~ David Duchovny

When I speak of 'cycles,' I am referring to lengthy intervals of relative homogeneity, if not in the resolving of problems, than at least with respect to the consistency of their capacity to productively irritate.

~ Brian Ferneyhough

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

~ Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

I said to the almond tree, 'Friend, speak to me of God,' and the almond tree blossomed.

~ Nikos Kazantzakis

My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe; I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession.

~ Arnold Schwarzenegger

No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions.

~ Elie Wiesel

Just like in rugby, the pinnacle was playing for the All Blacks. That was always a massive thing. But you never speak it outwardly because it can sound stupid. But if you don't have massive dreams, you might as well stay in bed.

~ Sonny Bill Williams

I'll speak for myself, but there's a lot of humor to be found in sarcasm and darkness. You talk to any paramedic, they survive by developing a pretty off-kilter sense of humor.

~ Nicolas Cage

I go out and speak to women's groups all the time, and I say, 'Guys, you gotta laugh and find the humor in things. You gotta pass it on.'

~ Vicki Lawrence

One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.

~ Françoise Sagan

No one has the right to ignite a war and lead an occupation and armies to conquer people, invading them and make them suffer all kinds of torture, murder, expulsion, displacement, bombing and terrorism by different lethal prohibited weapons and then come and speak as the savior of the people or a defender of their rights.

~ Muqtada Al Sadr

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

I think, if you're in the United States, we've seen people trying to speak out in different ways and trying to make themselves heard about the United States' failure to move on generationally, given the long-festering wound of our history around race.

~ Joshua Oppenheimer

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

~ Anatole France

I want to speak directly to the audience, to say, 'I'm like you - I'm frustrated, I'm not an expert, I don't have a manual on parenting, I make mistakes, I'm selfish too.'

~ Bernie Mac

I can only speak for my husband and myself, but we don't feel like we could do any of this parenting without our faith.

~ Jodi Benson

I want to speak up and tell you that mascara and clothes don't make you cool, neither do name-brand handbags, but being a leader can.

~ Renee Olstead

I always say, 'Hip-hop takes me everywhere.' It's crazy when I step onstage, and people might not speak much English, but they know every word to your songs. It's kind of freaky, but it's really cool.

~ Eve

At my age, I'm not trying to score cool points. I'm just excited when I can speak to younger members of our audience in the WWE. I just get to be a superhero to kids, but I'm not trying to be on the cutting edge of style or anything like that. Once you reach that point of deprivation, you don't mind it.

~ John Cena

Ali was a threat because he was a voice, and the people hated Ali when he was a voice, but once Ali could no longer speak and he wasn't a voice, they loved him. Love me now. I don't want to be loved if I could barely walk or barely talk. That's not cool.

~ Floyd Mayweather

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

~ Epictetus

First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.

~ Epictetus

Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

~ Hans Hofmann

If you work on a comedy show, your basic form of communication is teasing. That's generally how we speak to each other: you communicate the information between the lines of insulting sentences.

~ John Oliver

There is nothing more fearful for the average person in our society than to stand before a group of people and speak.

~ Charles R. Swindoll

I think our biggest problem is lack of real, honest communication between black men and black women. A lot of men talk amongst men, and a lot of women speak amongst women.

~ Hill Harper

There are many deaf people who couldn't imagine living in a marriage without someone who doesn't speak their language. For me, I believe that hearing or deaf is fine as long as both parties are willing to communicate in each other's language. But if there's no communication, then the marriage, I believe, will be difficult if not doomed.

~ Marlee Matlin

I speak onstage to try to establish some method of communication. The songs are supposed to be a way of communicating. But speech and drinks and sometimes chocolates are also a way of communicating.

~ Jarvis Cocker

My grandmother died in 1991 and I was born in '86. We only met once, but I didn't speak English and she didn't speak Spanish - so we had a communication problem.

~ Oona Chaplin

It's like there are all these languages available, especially in terms of image. Why confine yourself to only English? There's all these languages and possibilities and concepts to speak or communicate with.

~ William Wiley

Sports is like rock 'n' roll. Both are dominant cultural forces, both speak an international language, and both are all about emotions.

~ Phil Knight

The Internet is not just one thing, it's a collection of things - of numerous communications networks that all speak the same digital language.

~ Jim Clark

What I was proud of was that I used very few parts to build a computer that could actually speak words on a screen and type words on a keyboard and run a programming language that could play games. And I did all this myself.

~ Steve Wozniak

To me, it remains incomprehensible that a people who can design the Porsche 911 and sleek, white ice trains, who created the Bauhaus and speak at least three languages at birth, want to own twee Christmas figurines painted in gaudy colours, dress up in Bavarian lederhosen, and eat Haribo gummy bears.

~ Rory Maclean