Best 1955 quotes in «speak quotes» category

I think in a larger sense, immigrant narrative is comprehensive and speaks to the core of human experience.

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

I think it'd be pretty cool to fly. Actually, I'd like to be Language Gal. My super power is that I can speak every language.

I think I speak for everyone," he says, "when I say you have earned the title of Dauntless".

I think I speak for the guy who is just s a regular guy who says yo I don't wanna go to an expensive restaurant.

I think it's better to have your personal life and your work life separate. That way they don't corrupt each other, so to speak.

I think it was a good challenge for me to get my reactions across without being able to speak.

I think it would be bizarre to pick somebody to speak at the convention based on their sexual preference, because once you go down that road, why don't you pick a transvestite?

I think that if writers don't speak about real life, it's because they don't know it.

I think that most of us would say that ubuntu basically speaks about what it means to be human.

I think that's a hallmark of a really good story that it has readers that it speaks to more than others.

I think that sonically, music speaks volumes more than words do, and I have always thought that and will continue to think that for the rest of my life.

It is a curious thing that when one speaks from the heart it is invariably in the worst of taste.

I think the most annoying language is a tie between all the ones I don't know how to speak.

It is a great misfortune not to possess sufficient wit to speak well, nor sufficient judgment to keep silent.

It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak.

It is always a risk to speak to the press: they are likely to report what you say.

It is always disarming to treat with the enemy, so to speak.

It is an inwariable rule with the dealers to praise the bad points and let the good 'uns speak for themselves.

It is a wry commentary on the value-system in the United States that one speaks there of "teacher training" and "driver education.

It is astonishing that in a country so devoted to the individual, so many people should be afraid to speak.

It is a sad thing when men have neither enough intelligence to speak well nor enough sense to hold their tongues; this is the root of all impertinence.

It is by no means necessary to understand things to speak confidently about them.

It is better to allow our lives to speak for us than our words.

It is better to sit alone than in company with the bad, and it is better still to sit with the good than alone. It is better to speak to a seeker of knowledge than to remain silent, but silence is better than idle words.

It is better to remain silent than to speak the truth ill-humoredly, and spoil an excellent dish by covering it with bad sauce.

It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent.

It is difficult to restrain admirers of Shakespeare once they have begun to speak of him.

It is difficult to attack me directly on religion because I never speak of it. Formally I am a strict observer of decorum and in public affairs it is my principle to uphold religion.

It is equally important to listen as it is to speak.

It is embarrassingly unscientific to speak of anything creating itself from nothing.

It is extremely interesting to me that black males, and other black folk, are viewed as self-pitying, by either other blacks who have failed to accurately calculate their own diminished status as a result of racial animosity - both individual and systemic - or by whites who fail to comprehend how, after forcing black folk into subservience for hundreds of years, they now whine about small privileges that pale - so to speak - in comparison to the untold advantage of centuries of benefit.

It is hard enough to be good at all, but to be good in comedy speaks for your character.

It is hard for me to speak of themes. I like the reader to do that. Otherwise it feels like writing a 3rd grade essay on someone else's work.

It is easier to speak about revival than to set about it.

It is important to speak your truth, not to convince anyone else of it. Everyone must make up their own minds.

It is less injury to Him to deny His being, than to deny the purity of it; the one makes Him no God, the other a deformed, unlovely, and a detestable God. He that saith God is not holy speaks much worse that he that saith there is no God at all.

It is meaningless to speak in the name of - or against - Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.

It is necessary for the Bible, in order to be accommodated to the understanding of every man, to speak many things which appear to differ from the absolute truth so far as the bare meaning of the words is concerned.

It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.

It is no merit in the sorrowful that they weep, or to the oppressed and smothering that they gasp and struggle, not to me, that I must speak for the oppressed - who cannot speak for themselves.

It is no common mortal who speaks to us in this music.

It is not permitted for a woman to speak in the church, nor is it permitted for her to teach, nor to baptize, nor to offer [the eucharist], nor to claim for herself a share in any masculine function- not to mention any priestly office.

It is not enough these days to simply QUESTION AUTHORITY. You have to speak with it, too.

It is not usual to speak of an employee as a partner, and yet what else is he?

It is the tyranny of hidden prejudices that makes us deaf to what speaks to us in tradition.

It is not within the character of a believer to curse, to damn, to speak or act improperly.

It is precisely our job as Catholics to speak the truth as plainly and precisely as we can.

It is some alleviation to ills we cannot cure to speak of them.

It is simple nonsense to speak of the fixed tempo of any particular vocal phrase. Each voice has its peculiarities.