Best 1955 quotes in «speak quotes» category

Originally, John Kennedy was going to come speak, and then Lyndon Johnson. Because it was October of '62, neither made it because of the Cuban missile crisis.

Our emotions are often beautiful, but they can also be dangerous. They represent our spontaneity, and seem to speak to us of our freedom.

Our heart oft times wakes when we sleep, and God can speak to that, either by words, by proverbs, by signs and similitudes, as well as if one was awake.

Our loyalties are to the species and the planet. We speak for Earth.

Our recent pop-music icons, even the most radical ones, like Björk or Caetano Veloso, often have to present themselves as happy and make positive work because they have such a large young fan base to whom they feel responsible. They can't be too negative. Now, criticism is basically a negative act. As you know, critics are neither pop stars nor popular. They are the gripers. But someone has to speak up and say no to this and yes to that.

Our souls speak from across the miles, intertwined, you and I.

Our world is constantly in change and the great change is always toward freedom. When we speak of freedom we speak of equality. Nations will rise and fall but equality remains the ideal.

Out of Print" is bookseller speak for "We can't be hedgehogged.

Out of five hundred who speak glibly of love, not one can spell the first letter of his name.

Out of love you can speak with straight fury.

Pain will force even the truthful to speak falsely.

Painting, like passion, is a living voice, which, when I hear it, I must let it speak, unfettered.

Pardon the way that I stare, there's nothing else to compare. The sight of you leaves me weak, there are no words left to speak.

Particularly [Alfred] Hitchcock, who takes his time with everything he says. There's a controlling way in how he speaks because he takes his time to finish all his sentences.

Paul Valery speaks of the 'une ligne donnee' of a poem. One line is given to the poet by God or by nature, the rest he has to discover for himself.

People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.

People like to clap back at the people who speak out most.

People speak of a will to live. They rarely speak of a will to die. Because people are afraid of death. Death is dark and unknown and frightening. But not for me. It is not the end.

People seem to think that you should be willing to speak to them whether they're jerks or not.

People speak with enormous pomposity and arrogance about music.

People weren't meaning to be racist, but they didn't know. Action signals change, not intent. So when someone feels like they're not getting a fair shake, you gotta speak on it.

People who speak up for freedom in regimes that are oppressive are often a threat.

People who say not to speak ill of the dead are hypocrites, because you can take it ot the bank they're thinking ill.

Perfume is the art that makes memory speak

Perfect grammar - persistent, continuous, sustained - is the fourth dimension, so to speak; many have sought it, but none has found it.

Phyllis Schlafly speaks for all American women who oppose equal rights for themselves.

Philosophy is explicitness, generality, orientation and assessment. That which one would insinuate, thereof one must speak.

Playing characters that speak a very violent language was my livelihood.

Products should speak for themselves, and marketing should support that.

Politics is a lot like sex - if you want something, you have to ask for it, if they're not doing it right you've got to speak up and show them and if you still don't get what you want, then there is nothing wrong with doing it yourself.

Pop culture has none of the vibrancy that you find in the folk culture, where people speak directly to their own experience in the human condition.

Practice, practice, practice in speaking before an audience will tend to remove all fear of audiences, just as practice in swimming will lead to confidence and facility in the water. You must learn to speak by speaking.

Preaching and writing - it's the same. Whether I'm writing to speak or writing to be read in a book, it's the same thing.

Prayer is you speaking to God. Meditation is allowing the spirit to speak to you.

Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.

Put me up in front of a million people and ask me to speak. I'll flop. But put me behind my drums and I'll always go with it.

Question with boldness, hold to the truth, and speak without fear.

Poetry at its best is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak.

Poetry must speak of others, in order to speak for the poet's imagination, in order to speak of itself; it is slowed down by poetics after its flight is over.

Poets speak of hope in ladies smiles, but give me a smirk any day, I say.

Prayer is the opening of the soul to God so that he can speak to us.

Public speaking? I speak to myself on the street!

Quand celui à qui l'on parle ne comprend pas et celui qui parle ne se comprend pas, c'est de la métaphysique When he to whom a person speaks does not understand, and he who speaks does not understand himself, that is metaphysics.

Quantum theory provides us with a striking illustration of the fact that we can fully understand a connection though we can only speak of it in images and parables.

Read as few words as you like, and speak fewer, but act upon the law.

Recently an actor asked me to teach him how to speak fast. Wasn't I once criticised for speaking too fast? Now they're doing it my way.

Reason speaks and feeling bites

Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are.

Regardless of whether you speak the language or are familiar with a culture, the picture should hold up.

Regardless of what we understand or do not understand, we are what we speak. That's how we are known.