Best 1955 quotes in «speak quotes» category

I want to teach. I want to speak. I want to travel.

I was always, and I still am to a certain extent, one of those lazy people who spends a lot of time with Italian friends and yet constantly says I don't speak Italian. Things slow down when I start speaking Italian.

I was asked to speak about Canadian politics. It may not be true, but it's legendary that if you're like all Americans, you know almost nothing except for your own country. Which makes you probably knowledgeable about one more country than most Canadians.

I was a woman before I was an abolitionist. I must speak for the women.

I was born in Scotland and have lived there all my life. I speak conversational Cantonese with my dad when I'm at home, and very basic Mandarin.

I was born to speak. I got in trouble as a kid for talking. I already knew it was a strength.

I was brought up bilingual, but there came a point where my mom went back to work and I got a white babysitter, so sadly I lost it. Now I can understand Spanish and put words together, but I don't speak it fluently. I'm ashamed of that.

I was born under Communism. I know what it's like to live in a system where you can't speak, you have to whisper. Where the state is so pervasive and so intrusive.

I was in a tailspin of confusion I hadn't experienced since the first time I heard George W. Bush speak.

I was in Woody Allen's Stardust Memories in 1980. It was only a bit part and I didn't get to speak but I felt that I was in a real movie and heading where I had always wanted to be.

I was so afraid to even read a paper in front of my classmates. It is very funny because at that point my teachers would never have believed that I could speak in front of an audience of over 2,000 people.

I was thrilled to work opposite Carl Reiner and Robert De Niro. Mr. Reiner was very chatty and delightful, but I learned that if you want Robert De Niro to like you, don't speak at all, and he'll be friendly to you.

I wear all my T-shirts from Helmut Lang with the holes in the elbows, which people always speak of. When my husband gets a hole in his sweater, at his elbow, he says, "It's very Helmut Lang!

I wear [American flag] all the time. It represents my freedom to speak about exactly what I want to, whenever I want to.

I will be silent and will hear what God will say in me...If God wishes to speak to me, let him enter. I will not go out.

I will begin to speak, when I have that to say which had not better be unsaid.

I willingly speak to those who know, but for those who do not know I forget.

I woke up when I was 14 and went to speak to my mother and scared us both to death.

I will speak daggers to her, but use none.

I would have offered you a forest of truth, but you wish to speak of a single leaf

I worry a great deal about all of those surveys that are out that Americans, in particular, are becoming distrustful of our institutions - that Americans are beginning to say they're either irrelevant or they're corrupt or they certainly don't speak to me. But the institutions are actually still functioning.

I would have stage-fright if I had to speak with every one of the people before whom I speak.

I would love to have the ability to see inside everyone's heart before I heard them speak or even saw their faces.

I work with youth offenders in LA, I've heard them speak and see how music manipulates them.

I would have thought it possible to choose delegates for these larger conferences who, even if they could not speak the principal languages, could at least understand them or could have friends seated beside them who could keep them informed on essential points.

I would love to learn other languages, maybe French? My uncle speaks German so maybe also German? Chinese seems to be too difficult.

I would not like to see a person who is sober, moderate, chaste and just say that there is no God. They would speak disinterestedly at least, but such a person is not to be found.

I would not speak of Judaism as a Talmudic or Rabbinic religion. It's a Biblical religion.

I would prefer to just continue to speak about truth and to speak about what makes sense.

[Jesus Christ to Pope Francis] is the Lord with whom he speaks for hours every day in prayer. The Risen One who reached out, touched his life, and called him into mission.

I would say that I am not that well-versed politically. I am just someone who wants to speak out about anyone who is in a situation where they are suffering. I always want to stick up for the underdog.

I would speak up if I see someone being rude to someone.

Jazz speaks for life. This is triumphant music.

Jeb Bush says he`s not a good - why would he admit that? I watched him. I`m not an entertainer. He goes, I`m not a good talker. I don`t speak well. I don`t debate well. I don`t do anything well. But you should vote for me. That`s Jeb Bush.

Jihad amongst the Muslims today has become like a taboo subject that is discussed over coffee. The one who writes and speaks about Jihad has not even spent a minute in the battlefield.

John XXI was a very great pope and he's the one who actually corrected the liturgy. He did so because of his friend Jules Isaac, a French Jewish historian who was a friend of John Paul, of John 23rd, and he convinced him and he changed the liturgy, no more Jew, the perfidious Jew and so forth and now, and don't speak any more of the Jews killing Christ. Things have changed.

[Jem] looked from Will to Tessa and raised his silvery eyebrows. "A miracle," he said. "You got him to speak." "Just to shout at me, really," said Tessa. "Not quite loaves and fishes.

Just speak your truth, it's an important cornerstone of how your life ends up sort of unfolding in front of you. Even if it's painful, if it's honest, it's going to bring you to the place you deserve to be.

Just because no one can understand how you speak, Don't necessarily mean that what you be sayin is deep.

Kat looked at Hale. "I've never heard Marcus talk this much." "Yeah," Hale whispered. "I'm trying to decide if I like it." Just then, Marcus took the ruler and struck Eddie in the stomach. "Hale men speak from the diaphragm!" Hale nodded. "I definitely like it.

Just as the right to speak and the right to refrain from speaking are complementary components of a broader concept of individual freedom, so also the individual's freedom to choose his own creed is the counterpart of his right to refrain from accepting the creed established by the majority.

Just speak very loudly and quickly, and state your position with utter conviction, as the French do, and you'll have a marvelous time!

Just to hear President Obama speak - he's eloquent, he's so classy.

Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.

Knowing when to speak up and when to shut up will get you very far not only in business, but in life.

Know when to speak - for many times it brings danger, to give the best advice to kings.

Knowledge and Experience do not necessarily speak the same language.

Lay not that flattering unction to your soul, That not your trespass but my madness speaks.

Language transcends us and yet we speak.

Learning to speak was the most remarkable thing you ever did.