Speak Quotes

• But what can a decent man speak of with most pleasure? Answer: Of himself. Well, so I will talk about myself.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Speak
  • Pleasure
  • Answer

• Once or twice a day, I am enveloped inside what I like to call the Impenetrable Shield of Melancholy. This shield, it is impenetrable. Hence the name. I cannot speak. And while I can feel myself freeze up, I can't do anything about it.

  

  Sarah Vowell
  • Feels
  • Names
  • Melancholy

• We made our debut in Japan about few years ago and when we went on a morning show there to promote our album, I did a brief interview in Japanese using simple expressions such as "Yoroshiku onegaishimasu." But one of the members of our group said, "Stay quiet if you can't speak Japanese! It's embarrassing!" So that's when I told myself that I'd show how good I am by studying Japanese hard.

  

  Lee Seung-hyun Big Bang
  • Simple
  • Morning
  • Study

• The fact is, that of all God's gifts to the sight of man, color, is the holiest, the most divine, the most solemn. We speak rashly of gay color and sad color, for color cannot at once be good and gay. All good color is in some degree pensive, the loveliest is melancholy, and the purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love color the most.

  

  Thomas Starr King
  • Mind
  • Divine
  • Thoughtful

• When a man talks from his heart, in his moment of truth, he speaks poetry.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Men
  • Heart
  • Moments

• A gentleman that loves to hear himself talk, will speak more in a minute than he will stand to in a month.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Love
  • Gentleman
  • Minutes

• We are trying not so much to make God listen to us as to make ourselves listen to him; we are trying not to persuade God to do what we want, but to find out what he wants us to do. It so often happens that in prayer we are really saying, 'Thy will be changed,' when we ought to be saying, 'Thy will be done.' The first object of prayer is not so much to speak to God as to listen to him.

  

  William Barclay
  • Trying
  • Done
  • Prayer

• Live among others as if God beheld you; speak to God as if others were listening.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Listening
  • Speak
  • Angel

• The problem with love and God, the two of them, is how to say anything about them that doesn’t annihilate them instantly with the wrong words, with untruth. . . . In this sense, love and God are equivalents. We feel both, but because we cannot speak clearly about them, we end up–wordless, inarticulate—by denying their existence altogether, and, pfffffft, they die.

  

  Charles Baxter
  • Problem
  • Feels
  • Existence

• If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Speak
  • Silent
  • Condemned

• Mr President, I have decided not to speak the entire speech which I have.

  

  Afonso Van-Dunem
  • Speak
  • Speech
  • Decided

• Theology recognizes the contingency of human existence only to derive it from a necessary being, that is, to remove it. Theology makes use of philosophical wonder only for the purpose of motivating an affirmation which ends it. Philosophy, on the other hand, arouses us to what is problematic in our own existence and in that of the world, to such a point that we shall never be cured of searching for a solution.

  

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty
  • Language
  • Speak
  • Transcends

• Speak of a wolf and you see his tail!

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Speak
  • Wolf
  • Tail

• Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you-trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently; for in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, the whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Giving
  • Passion
  • Player

• Learning to speak is like learning to shoot.

  

  Avital Ronell
  • Learning
  • Speak
  • Shoot

• God transforms, so to speak, this air into words, into various sounds. He makes you understand these various sounds through the modifications by which you are affected.

  

  Nicolas Malebranche
  • Air
  • Sound
  • Various

• One can speak poetry just by arranging colors well, just as one can say comforting things in music.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Color
  • Wells
  • Comforting

• Lords, knights and gentlemen, what I should say My tears gainsay; for every word I speak, Ye see I drink the water of my eye.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Water
  • Eye
  • Tears

• It was not the purpose of poetry to record anything and everything, to merely describe either the outer world or some subjective mood, but to speak from the imagination of the poet to the imagination of the reader.

  

  Kathleen Raine
  • World
  • Purpose
  • Imagination

• It's almost worth retiring just so I can speak to you.

  

  Alex Zanardi
  • Speak
  • Worth
  • Retiring

• TooDamn-Funky: It's a start, ok. Been thinking bout the boyz. 'member last year my bro did that immersion thing in Venezuela? Kciker5525: Where he learned to speak Spanish??? TooDamn-Funky: Yeah! u go for 2 weeks talk nothing but Spanish u come back fluent. Kicker5535: ...???? TooDamn-Funky: Well this is like a guy immersion program! Kicker5525: So...what. I'm going 2 b fluent in GUY? TooDamn-Funky: Exactly! u will c what they talk about alone. U will c how they r with each other. U will c how they THINK!! AND WHEN IT'S DONE YOU'LL BE ABLE TO WRITE A GUY GUIDE BOOK!! Kicker5525: U r deranged.

  

  Kate Brian
  • Writing
  • Program
  • Members

• This organ deserves to be styled the starting point of life and the sun of our microcosm just as much as the sun deserves to be styled the heart of the world. For it is by the heart's vigorous beat that the blood is moved, perfected, activated, and protected from injury and coagulation. The heart is the tutelary deity of the body, the basis of life, the source of all things, carrying out its function of nourishing, warming, and activating body as a whole. But we shall more fittingly speak of these matters when we consider the final cause of this kind of movement.

  

  William Harvey
  • World
  • Heart
  • Kind

• You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Speak
  • Conscience
  • Forces

• One can see plainly that there is thunder brooding in his head, but he refuses to speak to them.

  

  André Brink
  • Speak
  • Head
  • Thunder

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