Best 1955 quotes in «speak quotes» category

What I find trying in a country which you do not understand and where you cannot speak, is that you can never be yourself.

What is more true than anything else? To swim is true and to sink is true. One cannot speak any more of being, one must speak onlyof the mess.

What message is needed when heart speaks to heart?

What passes out of one's mouth passes into a hundred ears. It is a great misfortune not to have sense enough to speak well.

What science cannot declare, art can suggest; what art suggests silently, poetry speaks aloud; but what poetry fails to explain in words, music can express. Whoever knows the mystery of vibrations indeed knows all things.

What the vengeance, could he not speak 'em fair?

What thou intendest to do, speak not of before thou doest it.

What thou seest, speak of with caution.

What you do should speak so loudly that no one will hear what you say.

What you do thunders above your head so loudly, I cannot hear the words you speak.

When a heretic wishes to avoid martyrdom he speaks of "Orthodoxy, True and False" and demonstrates that the True is his heresy.

When American administration will find that their interest is to follow up with the international conference and to find peace in this area, they will search not only for me, but for any Palestinian to speak with him. And they will say, "We have five million Arabs in the United States. We can't avoid them.

When a man talks from his heart, in his moment of truth, he speaks poetry.

When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

When a person has an accent, it means he can speak one more language than you

When a wise man chooses a sane basis for his arguments, it is no great task to speak well.

When economists speak of money, they neglect that all money and credit is debt. That is the essence of bookkeeping and accounting. There are always two sides to the balance sheet. And one party’s money or savings is another party

Whenever a journalist says to me, "Oh, you don't understand, I'm impartial, I'm objective," I know what he's saying. I can decode it immediately. It means he channels the official truth. Almost always. That protestation means he speaks for a consensual view of the establishment. This is internalized.

Whenever you go somewhere that speaks to your soul, you are going home to yourself.

When folks find I ain't afeard to speak my mind on their affairs, they kinder guess I'm tellin' the truth about my own.

When I hear a politician speak biographically, I never know what's part of the campaign biography narrative that's been carefully crafted.

When God speaks, when the Word speaks, energy is translated into matter. What is atomic fission? It is matter translated back into energy—poof! it disappears. Creation began with energy. In the beginning was the Word. The Word was with God. The Word was God.

When I go to American cities and speak to American audiences about Karachi, I am able to draw their own wonder and consternation about the cities they live in as an entry point to this other faraway, instant city.

When I listen to songs, I can smell a rat. I like songs that speak to me with some deeper truth.

When I look at the work, if it speaks to me, I'll say 'yes' and if the work doesn't resonate with me, I'll politely decline.

When he speaks again, I can tell that he's smiling. "So I guess we saved each other.

When he speaks to you he speaks with an earnest vibe and an earnest energy.

When I have people around, I'm a chatterbox. But when I'm alone, I never speak. I don't talk to myself; it's just not my schtick.

When I speak to people from Britain, that's when I feel like a fake, speaking with an American accent.

When I speak, you must not listen to the words, my dear. Listen to the Silence.

When I rap, it's just an extension of how I speak, and that's how I talk. If you don't like it, don't listen.

When I speak to students and they ask how much money you can make in art, as if that is a reason to persue it, I tell them to do something else.

When I speak to you about myself, I am speaking to you about yourself. How is it you don't see that?

When it became clear that Lennon was not going to speak with me, it really became a how-I-didn't-get-the-story story. It was a caper.

When I write, I actually hear the characters speak. Almost like an actor - even though I'm not an actor at all - getting into their truth and to justify what they do.

When I wear high heels I have a great vocabulary and I speak in paragraphs. I'm more eloquent. I plan to wear them more often.

When Jerry Lewis and I were big, we used to go to parties, and everybody thought I was big-headed and stuck up, and I wasn't. It was because I didn't know how to speak good English, so I used to keep my mouth shut.

When one has never heard a man's name in the course of one's life, it speaks volumes for him; he must be quite respectable.

When one is not understood one should as a rule lower one's voice, because when one really speaks loudly enough and is not heard, it is because people do not want to hear. One had better begin to mutter to oneself, then they get curious.

When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.

When one told Plistarchus that a notorious railer spoke well of him, "I'll lay my life," said he, "somebody hath told him I am dead, for he can speak well of no man living.'

when one never speaks, one has nothing to say because one has too much to say.

When Mutti and Vati came in I didn't speak to them. I just unfurled the CAT MOLESTERS banner I had made.

When one man speaks to another man who doesn't understand him, and when a man who's speaking no longer understands, it's metaphysics.

When one speaks of awakening, it means de-hypnotizatio n; coming to your senses. But of course to do that, you have to go out of your mind.

When our friends are present we ought to treat them well; and when they are absent, to speak of them well.

When one woman doesn't speak, other women get hurt.

When people get to speak about themselves and the things that matter to them, on their own terms, we see them as who they are. They can't be reduced to objects of derision.

When people speak of creating superhumanly intelligent beings, they are usually imagining an AI project.

When Prince Charles speaks, everybody pretends to be fascinated, even though he has never said anything interesting except in that intercepted telephone conversation wherein he expressed the desire to be a feminine hygeine product.