Speak Quotes

Bragging about yourself violates norms of modesty and politeness - and if you were really competent, your work would speak for itself.

~ Adam Grant

Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.

~ George Washington Carver

Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws.

~ Calvin Coolidge

Nature can refuse to speak but she cannot give a wrong answer.

~ Charles Brenton Huggins

The most watched programme on the BBC, after the news, is probably 'Doctor Who.' What has happened is that science fiction has been subsumed into modern literature. There are grandparents out there who speak Klingon, who are quite capable of holding down a job. No one would think twice now about a parallel universe.

~ Terry Pratchett

If I may take the liberty to speak for science at least, today his name and his prizes are without a peer in the world. He not only elevates science but he influences it as well.

~ Melvin Calvin

Given my age, I am pretty near the end, probably, of my career as a writer, a scholar, a teacher. And I wanted to speak of things I will not be able to do.

~ George Steiner

The problem is that when we speak of plan Bs, we already negate the possibility of moving on with plan A.

~ Isaac Herzog

Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead.

~ Daniel Barenboim

There should be no discrimination against languages people speak, skin color, or religion.

~ Malala Yousafzai

Music is something that should speak for itself, straight from the heart. It took me a long time to understand that.

~ Damon Albarn

I need music. It's like my heartbeat, so to speak. It keeps me going no matter what's going on - bad games, press, whatever!

~ Lebron James

We were raised in an Italian-American household, although we didn't speak Italian in the house. We were very proud of being Italian, and had Italian music, ate Italian food.

~ Francis Ford Coppola

I'd rather let the music speak for itself.

~ Serj Tankian

Even at age 10, I already knew that I was different from most people. My anxiety disorder was still years from being diagnosed, but it affected me quite deeply. I was too afraid to speak out in class, too nervous to make real friends.

~ Jenny Lawson

Regardless of your marital status, your age, or the language you speak, you are a beloved spirit daughter of Heavenly Father who is destined to play a critical part in the onward movement of the gospel kingdom.

~ Sheri L. Dew

Dissents speak to a future age.

~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Try to make at least one person happy every day. If you cannot do a kind deed, speak a kind word. If you cannot speak a kind word, think a kind thought. Count up, if you can, the treasure of happiness that you would dispense in a week, in a year, in a lifetime!

~ Lawrence G. Lovasik

Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.

~ Plutarch

Whether it's eight o'clock in the morning or eight o'clock at night, I always try to greet others before they have a chance to speak to me.

~ Zig Ziglar

Thought is more than a right - it is the very breath of man. Whoever fetters thought attacks man himself. To speak, to write, to publish, are things, so far as the right is concerned, absolutely identical. They are the ever-enlarging circles of intelligence in action; they are the sonorous waves of thought.

~ Victor Hugo

Foreigners who speak Arabic in the Middle East are often assumed to be working for the C.I.A. or Israel's intelligence agency, the Mossad.

~ Richard Engel

Everyone on the Left has a favorite story that allows them to kind of excuse Reagan, explain away Reagan, say he was dumb, but unless we reckon with that kind of emotional intelligence and his ability to kind of speak to the aspirations of the American people, the less liberals are going to be able to understand the soul of his appeal.

~ Rick Perlstein

The way you speak should not determine your intelligence. I should be able to say 'lit,' and you still know I'm intelligent. I should be able to say 'turn up,' and that doesn't take away from my intelligence. I wanted to break down that stereotype a little bit.

~ Angie Thomas

It doesn't matter that Bush scares the hell out of me. What matters is that he scares the hell out of a lot of very important people in Washington who can't speak out, in the military, in the intelligence community.

~ Seymour Hersh

A lot of parents never speak to their transgender kids again that's not the case in my family.

~ Chaz Bono

Around my house, I won't even speak to my family unless they first address me by my official Berzerker name, Godred Crovan, Victor of Sky-Hill and Ruler of Man and the Isles. And now that I think of it, that's probably why nobody speaks to me unless it's time to feed the dogs or take out the garbage.

~ Zakk Wylde

But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don't get young men standing up and saying, 'How can I combine career and family?'

~ Gertrude Stein

Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.

~ Julia Morgan

Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.

~ Frank Gehry

My buildings will be my legacy... they will speak for me long after I'm gone.

~ Julia Morgan

In a society that celebrates the inessential, architecture can put up a resistance, counteract the waste of forms and meanings and speak its own language.

~ Peter Zumthor

I do speak Mandarin, and I also relate to the hunger that China has for culture and architecture and style.

~ Vera Wang

When people have compassion, friendship, and unity, they speak and think in a constructive way to ensure national independence and prosperity.

~ Bhumibol Adulyadej

I'm pro-WWE, but also I maintain my independence and speak my true thoughts, never bashing the product. But yes, I can be critical. I've earned the right to be critical.

~ Stone Cold Steve Austin

It's like learning a language; you can't speak a language fluently until you find out who you are in that language, and that has as much to do with your body as it does with vocabulary and grammar.

~ Fred Frith

People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.

~ Francis Bacon

Puppet camp truly redefined my preconceptions of puppetry... I'll never forget learning that before a puppet can speak... he has to inhale. It's those details that make the characters truly come to life.

~ Rob Mcclure

Sometimes when I speak to groups or I'm interviewed by a journalist, I ask them to imagine their communities without Girl Scouts - to imagine the thousands of food drives and clothing and toy collections that would never take place if not for Girl Scouts.

~ Anna Maria Chavez