Best 1955 quotes in «speak quotes» category

Text a guy you like right now, "I'm thinking about you." If he says, "mmm are you in bed?" Never speak to him again he's a lifelong moron.

That's always been my approach, to expose what's going on and what's not being said. I could go the selfish route, and probably make a whole lot more money, but that's not what it's about, it's about speaking for people who can't speak for themselves.

That's an interesting thing about an object. One object speaks volumes about the company that produced it and its values and priorities.

Thank you so much for supporting me from the day I stepped foot into the music industry. It really means something to me to have Maya Angelou speak on my behalf. It also means a lot to have Oprah on my speed dial!

That is what poetry can do. It speaks to us of what does not exist, which is not only better than what exists, but even more like the truth.

That was in 1957. And there I found out that Germany is a kind of province. I didn't know anything about expressionism, about the Bauhaus and Dada and surrealism. I was uneducated, so to speak - and everybody else was more or less uneducated, too.

The 1st Amendment protects the right to speak, not the right to spend.

The ability to speak well is the shortcut to distinction.

The ability to speak exactly is intimately related to the ability to know exactly.

The acknowledgement that this person is English, white, or French, or German, this is Portuguese, this is Rwandan, this is Senegalese, this is a black South Africans is a glorious thing. To speak of those positively, to say that they have characteristics, each one of them, that the others almost always do not have, and that there is a complementarily about it.

That which we cannot speak of is the one thing about whom and to whom we must never stop speaking.

The aesthetic value of creation cannot be overlooked. Our very contact with nature has a deep restorative power; contemplation of its magnificence imparts peace and serenity. The Bible speaks again and again of the goodness and beauty of creation, which is called to glorify God.

THE ARTISTIC IMAGE IS ALWAYS A METONYM, WHERE ONE THING IS SUBSTITUTED FOR ANOTHER, THE SMALLER FOR THE GREATER. TO TELL OF WHAT IS LIVING, THE ARTIST USES SOMETHING DEAD; TO SPEAK OF THE INFINITE, HE SHOWS THE FINITE.

The author must keep his mouth shut when his work starts to speak.

The beauty of fragrance is that it speaks to your heart and hopefully someone else's.

The beauty we love is very silent. It smiles softly to itself, but never speaks.

The best patients are the worst patients. Nudge, nudge, nudge. Don't sit back and accept anything that fails to satisfy you. Speak up, protect your interests.

That was the best of all. To speak the truth and be attended.

The aesthetic, as I understand it, is really about the way in which we understand beauty and speak and think about beauty.

The Americans speak so much about freedom in their sermons. Freedom as a possession is a doubtful thing for a church; freedom must be won under the compulsion of a necessity. Freedom for the church comes from the necessity of the Word of God. Otherwise it becomes arbitrariness and ends in a great many new ties.

The bias against the show is purely elitist. We're all like the people on the show - the difference is that some of us speak better, or were born richer. There's nothing that happens on my show that rich people don't experience.

The Bible is not primarily a science book. It is not written to tell us how the heavens go; it is written to tell us how to go to heaven. But when it speaks on science, it is accurate.

The Bible is authoritative on everything of which it speaks. Moreover, it speaks of everything.

The Bible speaks of the sense of commission, which is doing what you should not do, instead of omission, which is not doing what you should do. It says in the book of James that if you know to do good and don't do it, it is sin.

The Bible is the Word of God in such a way that when the Bible speaks, God speaks.

The best thing you can do is to be a woman and stand before the world and speak your heart.

The Big Lie makes those who toil appear to be idle, while those who speak into dictaphones appear to be the hard workers.

The Bomb will never go off, and I speak as an expert in explosives.

The body is precious and the body is always going to speak through its own capacity for communication and love.

The church is only a secular institution in which the half-educated speak to the half-converted.

The best jihad is to speak a word of justice to an oppressive ruler.

The British vice is overthinking before we speak, which is really annoying. I love the way that, in America, people are more straightforward. The American vice would be sometimes speaking too loudly. You can always hear American people on the trains!

The chief service I owe you, O God, is that every thought and word of mine should speak of you.

The condition of truth is to allow suffering to speak - that gives it an existential emphasis.

The Communists, following Hegel, speak of humanity and its future as of some monolithic individuality. I was attacking this illusion.

The confessions don't speak with one voice. They are more like a cluster of closely-related but distinct voices - a kind of choir, if you like.

The Dear father Would with his daughter speak, commands her service; Are they inform'd of this?

The cultural treasures of the past, believed to be dead, are being made to speak, in the course of which it turns out that they propose things altogether different than what had been thought.

The disappointed one speaks. I searched for great human beings; I always found only the apes of their ideals.

The Dalai Lama says that when a Catholic and a Buddhist speak, the Buddhist becomes a deeper Buddhist and the Catholic becomes a deeper Catholic.

The design should make the product speak to you.

The effect speakes, the tongue needes not. [The effect speaks, the tongue needs not.]

The emoji still doesn't really speak to the complexity that actually - or the subtext that goes on between when people actually speak face-to-face.

The essence of Christianity...is an ever-new encounter with... the God who speaks to us, who approaches us and who befriends us!

The essence of a novelist is to invent things and speak the truth, at the same time.

The facts, if they are there, speak for themselves.

The dissolution of the pictorial into sheer texture, into apparently sheer sensation, into an accumulation of repetitions, seems to speak for and answer something profound in contemporary sensibility.

The facts never speak for themselves. They have to be interpreted in terms of some understanding of where they come from and what the relation between them is.

The disquieting thing about newscaster-babble or editorial-speak is its ready availability as a serf idiom, a vernacular of deference. "Mr. Secretary, are we any nearer to bringing about a dialogue in this process ?

The facts will speak for themselves. Credit them or not, but read!