Speaking Quotes
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For me, speaking is work. It's not like when you breathe.
Milos Forman
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Cantona's expression speaking the whole French dictionary without saying a word.
Barry Davies
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I had no fear of speaking to large audiences.
Mitch Kapor
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Public speaking? I speak to myself on the street!
Eliot Spitzer
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Donald Trump himself has an idiosyncratic speaking style that relies on simple words and phrases, which worked for him in the primaries but may be coming up short for him now.
Ben Zimmer
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When I speak to you about myself, I am speaking to you about yourself. How is it you don't see that?
Victor Hugo
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Television is of great educational value. It teaches you while still young how to (a) kill, (b) rob, (c) embezzle, (d) shoot, (e) poison, and, generally speaking, (f) how to grow up into a Wild West outlaw or gangster by the time you leave school.
George Mikes
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It is a fact which escapes no one, that, generally speaking, whoso is acquainted with his worth has but a little stock to cultivate acquaintance with.
Thomas Carlyle
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In reality, speaking in tongues is an acquired skill. At the time, I thought I was undergoing a spiritual experience. You feel good when you do it.
Michael O'Keefe
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Speaking it aloud would reveal the absurdity of it, and he preferred the dream.
Anthony Ryan
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I have a cultured manner of speaking.
Eunice Kathleen Waymon
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Have you ever had the sensation of looking at someone for the first time and ever so quickly the past and future seem to fuse ? Does that not mean something ? That we felt so much, so deeply, before even speaking?
Charles Dickens
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It is not the man speaking through the woman, it is the woman speaking through the man.
Arlene Croce
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I think something happens only when people find that they are moved with others, find themselves linked or allied in new ways, showing up or speaking out in ways that resonate with one another. That resonating can be very compelling and lead to moving and speaking more emphatically and with sharper focus.
Judith Butler
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[On refusing to be silenced:] I do not pretend to be John the Baptist rebuking the Pharisees. I do not claim to be Nathan upbraiding David. I aspire only to be Balaam's ass, castigating his master.
Katharina Zell
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This is Red Barber speaking. Let me say hello to you all.
Red Barber
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When we limit ourselves to speaking for only thirty seconds, the brain quickly adapts by filtering out irrelevant information. There’s another advantage to speaking briefly: it limits our ability to express negative emotions.
Andrew B. Newberg
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Speaking of line, what artist of line was ever able to find more depth and volume than Hirschfeld? He was an illustrator and a caricaturist, but first and foremost, an artist.
Billy Cannon
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I am only speaking of my own behalf.
Akbar Ganji
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Psychologically speaking, one may say that the hypocrite is too ambitious; not only does he want to appear virtuous before others, he wants to convince himself.
Hannah Arendt
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I am telling you to be a slow-speaking person.
Seneca the Younger
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Only six percent of films are made by women. And so in that that paradigm, a woman making a film at all is a political statement. A woman speaking her truth creates a feminist film.
Deborah Kampmeier
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Well, I aren't like a bird-clapper, forced to make a rattle when the wind blows on me. I can keep my own counsel when there's no good i' speaking.
George Eliot
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The world is speaking to you every day, you just don't know how to listen.
Sarah Dessen