Best 1955 quotes in «speak quotes» category

I said the kidnapping is a crime. I have the right to speak about the crime done against me. They didn't like me to speak about this crime. So I decided to reveal it to the public.

I said to him, "State your business, mortal!" There was no need for me to call him "mortal" or to speak like a sixteenth-century knight. It just sounded cool.

I said to Life, I would hear Death speak. And Life raised her voice a little higher and said, You hear him now.

I said to the almond tree, 'Sister, speak to me of God.' And the almond tree blossomed.

I saw Krishnamurti speak one time. And I thought, I'm not going to live here.

I say no words... I can't speak with him. I shy. He too good.

I say what I mean. I don't speak in code. That's why I am a star and ace communicator.

I see it happen in uniracial congregations all the time. But people - when they're in mixed company, we speak differently.

I seldom speak on songs, as in when people ask me for fave songs. I really have only fave parts.

I see that nature offers us a solution to everything that we call a problem. If you can just find your own nature and live it as naturally as you possibly can and be in a state of awe over everything, it doesn't matter where you are. It almost speaks to you and says, "There's no reason to be upset about anything. It will pass." If it's really going to pass, why stay confused by it and depressed by it. Just watch it go. It's on its way out. That's what I began to do.

I served with General Washington in die Legislature of Virginia...and...with Doctor Franklin in Congress. I never heard neither of them speak ten minutes at a time, nor to any but the main point.

[I] shall never use profanity except in discussing house rent and taxes. Indeed, upon second thought, I will not use it then, for it is unchristian, inelegant, and degrading--though to speak truly I do not see how house rent and taxes are going to be discussed worth a cent without it.

I Should Just Stop Tweeting, The Human Consciousness Must Raise Before I Speak My Juvenile Philosophy.

Is it O.K. that I speak in English? The only thing I know in Dutch is how to order pot.

I speak as I must and cannot be silent.

I speak Farsi, German, Dari, and I understand Turkish, but I haven't used it since 1985, so I'm a bit rusty.

I speak for those children who cannot speak for themselves, children who have absolutely nothing but their courage and their smiles, their wits and their dreams.

I speak my mind. That's who I am.

I speak not of men's creeds—they rest between Man and his Maker.

I speak African. I can even speak Italian.

I speak English, so I am no longer cute. My tongue itches for French.

I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety, a sense that nothing goes well, that pleasure is unavailable and all your strategies collapse.

I speak relatively little, except when I'm at home and I'm asking for things.

I speak to you. You speak to me. Is that fragile?

I speak better English than this villain, Bush.

I speak many times about Stephen Ireland, that he is shy like a hedgehog.

I speak of the old Japan, because out of the ashes of the old Japan there has risen a new Japan.

I speak the truth but I guess that's a foreign language to ya'll!

I speak to my agent about great roles, and he's like, 'They are all going to Will Smith.

I speak because I can to anyone I trust enough to listen.

I speak Spanish to my children and they speak it better than me.

I speak to the paper, as I speak to the first person I meet.

I speak to you in one tongue/ but every moment that ever mattered to me/ occurred in another language.

I speak Hindi fluently because my mother speaks only in Hindi and Urdu.

I speak to my childhood friends almost every day over the Internet.

I speak to the black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition.

I spoke French a bit, and I could speak a bit of this and that, and when you were taught those things by people who couldn't really do it, you can do some pretty wonderfully, imaginative horrific things to teachers.

I still speak Czech with my parents because I was born there.

I switch between fixed forms and free verse often, and enjoy being a poet who can "swing both ways," so to speak.

I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.

I take it that 'gentleman' is a term that only describes a person in his relation to others; but when we speak of him as 'a man,' we consider him not merely with regard to his fellow-men, but in relation to himself,--to life--to time--to eternity.

It also happens to me that when I meet a clericalist, I suddenly become anti-clerical. Clericalism should not have anything to do with Christianity. St. Paul, who was the first to speak to the Gentiles, the pagans, to believers in other religions, was the first to teach us that.

It can be no dishonor to learn from others when they speak good sense.

It amazes me, how many words there are spoken, how many thoughts...yet each speaks freshly to me each time as if they were never once spoken before.

It can no longer be maintained that the properties of any one thing in the universe are independent of the existence or non-existence of everything else. It is, at last, no longer sensible to speak of a universe with only one thing in it.

It could be disastrous to speak your mind while you are deep in thought.

It(Boston Bombings) was worth it to hear you(survivor speakers) speak.

It has given me a global vantage point, being the daughter of immigrants from China, who had nothing when they came here. And now I am leading a company. It speaks to something deep in me, the concept that you don't have to start with anything.

I think I speak for America when I say, nothing says NASCAR like Whoopi Goldberg.

I think as a celebrity, we have to teach the young generation how to speak with the old generation.