Speak Quotes
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Truth is the first thing that present-day literature lacks. The writer has drowned himself in lies, he is too accustomed to speak prudently, with a careful look over his shoulder.
Yevgeny Zamyatin
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Sometimes you have to speak in the future perfect tense, knowing you will not win.
Antanas Mockus
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I do not speak through my characters; it's not a ventriloquist act.
Aaron Sorkin
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Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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I can always, quite easily, put myself in other people's shoes, so to speak, and look at the world through them.
Valeria Luiselli
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Many Indians and Israelis seem set to elect, with untroubled consciences, those who speak the language of torturers and terrorists. More disturbingly, these corrupted democracies may increasingly prove the norm rather than the exception.
Pankaj Mishra
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I don't seek the counsel of God. God doesn't speak to me on what I should or shouldn't do.
Gary Johnson
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I'm very political without being political. I don't know how to speak proper political language.
Taki Theodoracopulos
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When I went to Fashion Week, I was very disappointed by how few women of color were in those shows. I do speak to the younger girls, and I hear them when they say they're not getting the big contracts or into the big shows.
Beverly Johnson
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One should go to the line through the character. You should see their lifestyle in the way they speak.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui
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Artists talk in 'art speak.'
Damian Loeb
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I was definitely the kid in the back of the class with his head down the whole time not wanting to speak up and say anything.
Washed Out
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I am not playing for any lobby. I am playing for national lobby. I will ignore lobby. Anybody has useful suggestion, they can give it to me. The history will speak about it.
Veerappa Moily
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I've tried, in my own life, to speak up when I see harassment occurring. But I want to acknowledge that there are probably situations and instances where I could have done more. I think that's an acknowledgment that all men need to make.
J. B. Pritzker
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But those with shattered souls find it very difficult to speak.
Elizabeth Smart
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I don't need to speak about N'Golo; everyone knows about him. He's everywhere. I think, sometimes when I'm on the pitch, I see him twice. One on the left, one on the right. I think I'm playing with twins!
Eden Hazard
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I speak Farsi, German, Dari, and I understand Turkish, but I haven't used it since 1985, so I'm a bit rusty.
Navid Negahban
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Speaking English is like tongue-twist for me. I can speak each word perfect, but then you have to string them together like, 'Blah, blah, blah.' That's when I get crazy.
Jackie Chan
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The courage to speak must be matched by the wisdom to listen.
Charles E. McKenzie
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Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin are already trustless - any machine can accept it from any other, securely. They are (nearly) free. They are global - no central bank required, and any machine can speak the language.
Naval Ravikant
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In South Africa, we speak English and sometimes Afrikaans, sometimes Zulu, sometimes Xhosa.
Watkin Tudor Jones
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I've got a particular way of writing novels, and that carries over into the way I write comics and games, too. I'm a news journalist by background, so I approach everything as reporting - I treat it as real, I ask the questions I'd ask in a real situation, and I let the characters speak for themselves.
Karen Traviss
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The wheat field has ...poetry; it is like a memory of something one has once seen. We can only make our pictures speak.
Vincent Van Gogh
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All objects, all phases of culture are alive. They have voices. They speak of their history and interrelatedness. And they are all talking at once!
Camille Paglia