Best 1955 quotes in «speak quotes» category

It's understanding the intention of a composer that allows a producer and an arranger to make those moments speak

It's very difficult for me to speak about being an actor.

It's very difficult to speak to a large group of people these days and not offend someone.

It's usually, my people speak to your people and then they speak around each other and trade calls for weeks.

It's weak to speak and blame somebody else ...When you destroy yourself.

It's very rare, as an actor, to be someplace - to have an address, so to speak.

It's your thoughts behind the words you speak that create your attitude.

It's your obligation to speak the truth, and everyone can either take it or leave it. But truth must be in us. We live in such a poverty of truth today.

It takes power for the man of God in the pulpit to speak plainly about particular sins before the faces of those who are living in them; and still more power to do it with the rare tactfulness and tenderness of the Galilean preacher.

It was a such a surprise, such an absolute shocking surprise to me to not know what you're doing and to find out that this thing that you don't even know how to do, that you're sure you don't know how to do, speaks to so many people and touches so many people in some way.

It was fascinating listening to this wonderful biologist, Sarah Allen Miller, speak of her relationship to these beings for 20 years.

I unfortunately don't speak French, but my wife is now fluent in English, which really reflects rather badly on me.

I understand that you're supposed to protect a fellow officer, but when injustice is happening, it's on them to speak up as well.

I used to crack A joke when Sourav Ganguly is upset and make him happy , i usually speak in bengali which would make him laugh

I've been accused of deliberately hamming up my accent and dropping letters, but that's just how I speak - I used to be a chav.

I've been away and haven't seen my family. I speak to them every day though. I miss them, but I love traveling.

I've been asked several times over the years to become president, and I've always said no, because I didn't want to give up all the time from my work. The position won't be open for another year, but if they still want me then, I'll do it; I'll speak out as often as I can from that platform.

I've been water-boarded, and I speak from experience, and it's torture.

I've turned down good directors before because I knew the part didn't speak to me and I've worked with less talented directors before because the part I had such passion for.

I've come to be pretty selective about the type of advocacy that I do, because I kind of feel like it's stronger to just do my work and let it speak for itself.

I've lived for 10 years in Switzerland, so I speak German.

I voted for Barack Obama twice but I found his rather strong statements about Donald Trump a little unseemly, kind of thought that he ought to stay above the fray so to speak. Is it just me who feels like this was a little out of bounds or is this good politics since his approval ratings are pretty high?

I've never had to spend any time in the VA hospital, so I really can't speak for those guys.

I've never heard God speak out loud to me. That's not an experience I have had.

I wanted to say goodbye to someone, and have someone say goodbye to me. The goodbyes we speak and the goodbyes we hear are the goodbyes that tell us we´re still alive.

I want to speak to the despisers of the body. I would not have them learn and teach differently, but merely say farewell to their own bodies-- and thus become silent.

I want my tennis to speak for everything.

I want to encourage young women to stand up for each other and speak up when they see others in a tough situation.

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

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

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

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 speak daggers to her, but use none.

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

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 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.