Best 1955 quotes in «speak quotes» category

I grew up with classical music, and to a lesser extent electronic music, and that's where I belong, so to speak.

I grew up with the piano. I learned its language as I learned to speak.

I had been invited to speak after the lunch. But I did not go to the table until the feast ended, as I never like to eat or talk before speaking.

I had formed a black movement, so I would speak for the Trotskyist movement and then walk about a hundred yards to where the black movement was speaking.

I had the opportunity to speak at a recent fundraiser [for Hillary Clinton] and felt extremely honored that she would allow someone as, well, untraditional as me to stand at her podium.

I had two options. One was to remain silent and wait to be killed. And the second was to speak up and then be killed. I chose the second one. I decided to speak up.

I hang by a thread, but it is (if I may so speak) of Christ's spinning

I have a big mouth, and over the years, as the eldest of five, I have had a tendency to speak when no one really cared.

I have always found that Angels have the vanity to speak of themselves as the only wise.

I have been accused of many things in my life, but not even my worst enemy has ever accused me of being afraid to speak my mind.

I have a very lively and colourful show. It's two hours of hits and the music speaks for itself.

I have a very thick skin. I take everything that comes and let it bounce right off me because I know the time will come when nobody will be able to speak falsely.

I have been known for some time as a person who speaks the truth and speaks it strongly. I have always called a liar a liar and a hypocrite a hypocrite.

I have come to the conclusion that it is better to be silent than to speak.

I have had fun being who I became, so to speak.

I have listened and I have been quiet all my life. But now I will speak.

I have made a pact with my tongue, not to speak when my heart is disturbed.

I have the right of education. I have the right to play. I have the right to sing. I have the right to talk. I have the right to go to market. I have the right to speak up.

I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse.

I have to come out of the closet of the third person and speak in a more direct way.

I have no gift of words, but I speak the truth.

I have only to speak for myself; to speak for freedom for myself; to determine for freedom for myself; and in doing so, I speak and determine for the freedom of every slave on every plantation, and for the fugitives on my right hand.

I have to get out once a week and speak with people or I start thinking I'm the emperor of Abyssinia.

I have tried at every point to seek God's wisdom on the decisions I made, and I made it my business to speak up on behalf of the things God tells us are important to Him.

I just don't like big guys who speak cryptically and act like they understand the language better than me.

I hope my work is recognizable as being by a woman, though I certainly would never deliberately make it feminine in any way, in subject or treatment. But if I speak in a voice which is my own, it's bound to be the voice of a woman.

I just got back from New York, and I realized in New York, it's very difficult to hear a New York accent. It's almost impossible, actually - everybody seems to speak like they're from the Valley or something. When I grew up, you could tell what street in Dublin someone's from by the way they talked.

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

I just have a belief that when there is a rare script out there that speaks to you, you have to stick with it. You have to.

I just try to speak passionately about things I'm involved in and moved by.

I just sort of follow my bliss, so to speak, and then I see where that takes me.

I just want to create amazing music that speaks and defines who I am. I want it to be based on my life and/or what I am going through at that specific time.

I learned how to speak English watching television.

I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.

I know I've had an unusual beginning and a colourful life, but that wouldn't matter if I couldn't make it speak to other people.

I leaned forward on the table and leveled her with my steady gaze. “Do not ever speak to her that way again. If she hadn’t agreed to come with me I wouldn’t have come. Don’t underestimate her importance. She’s mine. Respect that.

I learned how to turn it on and turn it off. You learn that in theater, too, but for film work, I learned from doing 'Henry,' I learned how to leave work at work and go home. There's always spillover. Actors speak of this.

I like being free to take on any project that inspires me and to trust that the work will speak for itself.

I like living near my family, and near the people I understand the best. The landscape of Michigan speaks to me, and the humility and humor of the people here makes sense. It just feels right to live here, in a place where I don't dare put on airs.

I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.

I'll just let my work speak for itself, as every artist should.

I like the idea of going to one of those retreats where you don't speak - like, silence for five days.

I like to be in a European city where I can speak my language.

I like to speak with the youth, and I like to hear the youth. They always put me in difficulty. They tell me things that I haven't thought of, or that I've partly thought of. The restless youth, the creative youth, I like them!

I'll call you," he repeated. "If you call me, I won't pick up the phone." "You will wait by the phone for my call, and when it rings, you will pick it up and you will speak to me in a civil manner. If you don't know how, ask someone.

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.

I looked at her and tried to speak, but all I could think about was how shocked she'd be if I said what I was thinking.

I like that confusion when people are speaking in the same language but still can't understand each other. It's also usually my experience of being in America - when I speak no one can understand what I'm saying.

I’ll never speak to God again.

I'll speak in a monstrous little voice.