Best 1955 quotes in «speak quotes» category

Animals were my passion from even before I could speak apparently. When I was about 10, 11 I fell in love with Tarzan.

Anybody who speaks quietly and shrivels up in company is unbelievably arrogant.

Anyone who attempts to relate his life loses himself in the immediate. One can only speak of another.

Anyone who doesn't speak English isn't worth speaking to

Anne, are you killed?' shrieked Diana, throwing herself on her knees beside her friend. 'Oh, Anne, dear Anne, speak just one word to me and tell me if you're killed.

Any simpleton can speak with confidence. Sometimes the greatest fools have the most bravado.

Anytime you're the first to speak out against something, there's going to be a backlash.

A person is strong only when he stands upon his own truth, when he speaks and acts from his deepest convictions.

Anton Pannekoek didn't encourage radical workers and other activists of the anti-Bolshevik left to see revolutionary potential in his work in astronomy, for the simple reason that he was honest, and knew there was none to speak of.

A person who speaks good English in New York sounds like a foreigner.

Any profession should have norms around the issue you raise. And, in the words of the great economic thinker Albert Hirschman, we all owe a measure of loyalty to professional norms. But when the norms seem unhelpful or unproductive, one needs to speak up - to activate voice. And in the extreme, if the profession and one's colleagues seem estranged from a thoughtfully selected course of action, you need to consider the possibility of exit. Of course, if you knowingly violate norms or laws, you need to be prepared to face the consequences - or to lead a revolution!

Apparently, I'm very, very popular in jails. They often ask me to come and speak.

A radical is one who speaks the truth.

Arbores loqui latine. The trees speak Latin.

A politician or political thinker who calls himself a political realist is usually boasting that he sees politics, so to speak, in the raw; he is generally a proclaimed cynic and pessimist who makes it his business to look behind words and fine speeches for the motive. This motive is always low.

Arrogance needs advertising, confidence speaks for itself.

Artists can no more speak about their work, than plants can speak about horticulture.

As a young actor, I booked a movie in the U.S. I didn't speak any English at the time, so I learned my lines phonetically when I auditioned for it.

As Christians, we're under oath all the time. We're not always required to say everything we think or know, but we're always to speak as He did-truthfully.

A sermon is a valuable thing now and so impressive when you do hear a good one - and there is a lot of failure in the attempt; it's a difficult form - is because it's so seldom true now that you hear people speak under circumstances where they assume they are obliged to speak seriously and in good faith, and the people who hear them are assumed to be listening seriously and in good faith.

As far as I'm concerned, I just speak the truth.

A practitioner in panegyric, or, to speak more plainly, a professor of the art of puffing.

A rejection of the way a woman speaks is often a way of blaming or dismissing her without dealing with the content of what she is saying.

Armenian is the language to speak with God.

As for dream roles, they usually just speak to you. I just crave complex characters.

As humans we speak one language.

As I see it, mainstream comics now speak only to the hardcore few who stayed; conversing in a weird, garbled, visual pig latin only they can understand - rendering the term 'mainstream' a hollow joke - while the true mainstream, the other 99.9% of the populace, find enjoyment elsewhere.

Astrology is a language. If you understand this language, the sky speaks to you.

A successful person allows his results to speak for him, not his mouth.

As we can not love what is hateful, let us accustom ourselves neither to think nor to speak of disagreeable things and persons.

A slave is he who cannot speak his thoughts.

As soon as I could speak, I was singing. Before I could even speak full words, I would make up ones to sing and I have it on tape, too.

As writers we must, from our very opening sentence, speak with authority to our readers.

At all crucial moments in our lives we want to speak without knowing what to say.

A thug only understands you when you speak his language

At one point in time, you've just got to be a brave soldier, and speak up. What are you scared of, you know? So many of our entertainers have that fear because we're afraid of opposition.

Aw, come on. I barely speak English, unless we're talking about the Lowcountry kind.

A voice speaks to each of us in the still silent places - a voice that tells us to stand, to have courage, to do what is right.

Backbite: To ''speak of a man as you find him'' when he can't find you.

Ballet will speak for itself. About itself.

Barack Obama is uniquely qualified to speak about the knowledge, experience and temperament that the presidency requires. And I know he is raring to get out there and start campaigning and I really look forward to campaigning with him.

Barack Obama's a politician, I'm a pastor. We speak to two different audiences.

Baseball is this intense subculture that actually doesn't speak very much for the larger culture.

Be able to correctly pronounce the words you would like to speak and have excellent spoken grammar.

As we learn to speak from the heart we are changing the habits of a lifetime.

Beauty is part of the finished language by which goodness speaks.

As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid - as if we'd disabled them utterly. Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?

Be...As a page that aches for a word Which speaks on a theme that is timeless

Because, as we are told—a sad old joke, too— Ghosts, like the ladies, never speak till spoke to.

Beauty is the oracle that speaks to us all.