Best Speak Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“In my normal life, I do not speak with an accent. It's harder for people to realize my hearing loss in everyday life.”

People Speak Realizing Loss Normal Harder Everyday Hearing Accents Everyday Life Normal Life Hearing Loss

“I live in LA so I worry my kids aren't that connected to Britain, I suppose I don't want them to become American kids. We try to get back three or four times a year. When they go to school they speak with a British-American accent but when they come home to us they go back to their British accent, so I can deal with that.”

Want Trying Years Home Kids School Three Speak Worry Four Connected British Britain Coming Home Get Back Accents

Author:Kevin McKidd

“Silence is complicity. Speak now or surrender your ground.”

Speak Silence Surrender Silence Is Complicity Speak Now

Author:Michelle Malkin

“I try not to be too profane around children or old people. Other than that, that's how I speak.”

People Trying Children Speak Old People Profane

Author:Paula Malcomson

“I don't speak Spanish. I've done Spanish 1 and 2 classes. My grandma asked me when I was young if I wanted to learn Spanish, and I guess I was young. I should have, because it would have helped me a lot.”

Ifs Should Done Wanted Young Speak Class Should Have Grandma My Grandma

Author:Scotty McCreery

“Lou Reed is something like a personal favorite of mine, but you could always put me into that drawer of singers who can't really sing, who speak their songs.”

Song Speak Mines Singers Drawers Reeds

Author:Stephen Malkmus

“I wish that I spoke more languages. I speak a couple languages, but not well enough to really dub myself. French is really the only one, and it's a difficult thing.”

Wells Enough Speak Language Wish Difficult Couple Spokes Difficult Things

Author:Jodie Foster

“If I make two movies my entire life, and they're two movies that - whether they make a lot of money or two people go to see them - they speak of me, then I consider them incredibly successful. I don't need to be Steven Spielberg.”

People Ifs Needs Two Speak Successful Lots Of Money

Author:Jodie Foster

“The idea that everything is purposeful really changes the way you live. To think that everything that you do has a ripple effect, that every word that you speak, every action that you make affects other people and the planet.”

People Thinking Way Ideas Action Speak Effects Planets Ripple Ripple Effect

Author:Victoria Moran

“When you speak in another accent, it affects you. You can't help but be changed by it.”

Helping Speak Changed Accents

Author:Alessandro Nivola

“I'm always for the person who speaks their mind.”

Mind Persons Speak

Author:Kathy Najimy

“I know that money speaks more loudly than need.”

Knows Needs Speak

Author:Knute Nelson

“I speak Farsi, German, Dari, and I understand Turkish, but I haven't used it since 1985, so I'm a bit rusty.”

Used Speak Bits Havens Turkish

Author:Navid Negahban

“We are different people - you get a different take on the band whoever you speak to. Somehow, at the end of it, it goes through the filtering process and out comes the Radiohead thing.”

People Different Ends Speak Process Band Different Peoples Radiohead

Author:Ed O'Brien

“My grandfather was smart and had a whole lot of pride. He didn't speak a terrible amount, but you could tell there was a ton on his mind - like a quiet acceptance of how life had turned out.”

Mind Whole Speak Acceptance Pride Amount Terrible Quiet Smart Grandfather My Grandfather

Author:Frank Ocean

“When I hit a block, regardless of what I am writing, what the subject matter is, or what's going on in the plot, I go back and I read Pablo Neruda's poetry. I don't actually speak Spanish, so I read it translation. But I always go back to Neruda. I don't know why, but it calms me, calms my brain.”

Knows Writing Matter Speak Brain Subjects Calm Block Plot Translations Subject Matter

Author:Tea Obreht

“You gave us power in our words, so I think before I speak, and that way when I speak, they know I'm here to teach.”

Thinking Knows Way Speak Education Teach Our Words

Author:DMX

“My theory stands as firm as a rock; every arrow directed against it will return quickly to its archer. How do I know this? Because I have studied it from all sides for many years; because I have examined all objections which have ever been made against the infinite numbers; and above all because I have followed its roots, so to speak, to the first infallible cause of all created things.”

Knows Years Firsts Made Speak Causes Sides Numbers Rocks Theory Return Roots Logic Infinite Certainty Uncertainty Firm Reasoning Arrows Objections Infallible Ontology Archer

Author:Georg Cantor

“Within the studies and on the screen, the Jews could simply create a new country - an empire of their own, so to speak, one where they would not only be admitted, but would govern as well. The would create its values and myths, its traditions and archetypes.”

Wells Country Values Speak Study Tradition Jew Myth Screens Empires Archetype

Author:Neal Gabler

“There was a gap of seven years between the first and second Dracula movies. In the second one as everybody knows, I didn't speak, because I said I couldn't say the lines.”

Knows Inspirational Years Firsts Said Speak Lines Seven Gaps Seven Years

Author:Christopher Lee

“It's always better to speak the language of the team. Not only for the direct contact with everyone - sometimes it also helps you to understand the mentality of the people in the team a bit better.”

People Sometimes Helping Speak Language Bits Team Direct Contact Mentality

Author:Alain Prost

“People who do not speak our language very well do complain of feeling rebuffed by French people, who can sometimes be impatient, or even intolerant.”

People Wells Sometimes Feelings Speak Language Complaining Impatient

Author:Bernard Pivot

“The more English is heard in the world, the more gratifying it seems to speak French, and above all to know the culture of our country. They find a kind of French social grace in the language and culture.”

Knows World Kind Country Seems Culture Speak Language Social Grace Heard Our Country Speaks French Social Graces

Author:Bernard Pivot

“I've always been me. I've always been very direct and have told the truth and have been very willing to stand up and speak out.”

Has Beens Speak Willing Direct Speaks Out

Author:Bev Perdue

“I don't really care where I work, actually, because you know making a movie is like living in movie world. There's such a secluded world, and the director is the king ruling the country, and everybody's building this little town to speak in symbolism.”

Knows World Littles Country Care Speak Building Kings Directors Towns Ruling Symbolism Little Towns Secluded

Author:Franka Potente

“Politics also means educating people. It's important to speak openly with our fellow Greeks, to tell them what our problems are and that we have to change something.”

People Mean Important Problem Speak Fellows Greek

Author:George Papandreou

“One of the reasons I continue to speak out is that the solutions to the counterterrorism problem involve other parts of the national security community - especially other elements of the Department of Defense, State, FBI, Homeland Security and the staff.”

States Reason Problem Speak Community Security Elements Solutions Defense Department Staff National Security Fbi Homeland Speaks Out Homeland Security Counter Terrorism Department Of Homeland Security

Author:John Poindexter

“Hollywood will put you in a box, so to speak. Some people will have seen you in 'La Bamba' or another dramatic film and think, 'Okay, that's what Lou does.' But they don't really have an idea of the range or diversity that I can bring to a project.”

People Thinking Doe I Can Ideas Film Speak Diversity Projects Okay Hollywood Boxes Range Dramatic

Author:Lou Diamond Phillips

“I became fascinated with the concept of speak no, see no, hear no evil. And - and the actual depiction of three wise monkeys. And I began collecting it over the years. And I kind of figured that I might be the - the fourth monkey, the feel no evil monkey.”

Feels Years Kind Might Three Evil Speak Wise Concepts Fascinated Fourth Monkeys Collecting Depiction

Author:Mackenzie Phillips

“My mother went to a school called 'The Club of the Three Wise Monkeys'. And my grandmother, my father's mother, had a gold charm for her made with the speak no, see no, hear no evil monkeys. And I was fascinated by that charm. I'd sit in my mother's lap and play with it all the time.”

Made Play School Mother Three Evil Father Speak Wise Gold Clubs Charm Grandmother Fascinated Monkeys My Grandmother Lap

Author:Mackenzie Phillips

“Very often a job will come along that speaks to the place you're in as a person at that very moment. And usually once I've done it I feel like that part is over.”

Feels Persons Done Moments Jobs Speak

Author:Martha Plimpton

“The landscape you grow up in speaks to you in a way that nowhere else does.”

Way Doe Speak Grows Growing Up Landscape

Author:Molly Parker

“Only in North America is it regarded as a major achievement to speak one language moderately well.”

Wells America Speak Language Achievement Majors North America

Author:Dick Pound

“I can't speak for anyone else, but in my case, I sort of fell into acting.”

I Can Speak Acting Cases

Author:Teresa Palmer

“What I look for in any character, good or bad, is whether I can hear him speak. If I can imagine him that clearly, then I can write about him.”

Ifs Writing Looks I Can Character Speak Imagine

Author:Thomas Perry

“The security of which we speak is to be attained by the development of international law through an international organization based on the principles of law and justice.”

Law Speak Justice Principles Security Development Organization International International Law Law And Justice

Author:Ludwig Quidde

“I'm sort of a reverse Method actor. In my personal life, I become my characters. After 'One Tree Hill', I started dressing in Converse and ripped jeans and hoodies. On 'Awkward', it manifests in how I speak.”

Character Actors Speak Tree Method Hills Awkward Reverse Personal Life Jeans Dressings Ripped Converses Tree Hill Hoodies Ripped Jeans

Author:Ashley Rickards

“The idea of 'talking white,' a lot of people grew up around that, just the idea that if you speak with proper diction and come off as educated that it's not black and that it's actually anti-black and should be considered only something that white people would do.”

People Ifs Should Ideas Speak Black White Talking Grew Grew Up Educated Diction

Author:Chance the Rapper

“When I speak to people from Britain, that's when I feel like a fake, speaking with an American accent.”

People Feels Speak Fake Britain Accents

Author:Matthew Rhys

“I learned how to turn it on and turn it off. You learn that in theater, too, but for film work, I learned from doing 'Henry,' I learned how to leave work at work and go home. There's always spillover. Actors speak of this.”

Home Film Turns Actors Speak Theater

Author:Michael Rooker

“It is part of my responsibility as a bridge builder to speak the truth about what's great about America, what we've done right, and what our less glorious moments. And many people feel that the Iraq adventure, for example, has been one of our less glorious moments.”

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Author:Feisal Abdul Rauf

“There are moderates in Israel. There are moderates in Iran, there are moderates in the Republican Party, moderates in the Democratic Party. What we need to do is we need link all of these moderates together and to figure out a way by which this particular coalition can speak to important issues to marginalize the voice of the extremists.”

“I can only speak as an American, but most journalism here isn't doing its job any more. It's about selling stuff.”

I Can Jobs Speak Stuff Selling Journalism

Author:Lance Reddick

“All my life, people have made fun of the way I speak. I guess because a lot of my vocabulary is made up of things that other people say. I started making fun of them and imitating them and now that's how I speak.”

People Way Made Speak Fun Vocabulary Imitating

Author:Gabourey Sidibe

“All athletes speak about the mental element of athletics, and it usually boils down to the same thing: if you can remove your ego from the game, you can function with much more clarity and you are more likely to succeed. Wouldn't it be interesting if we all began speaking about the mental element of our lives in this way?”

Ifs Way Games Speak Interesting Our Lives Succeed Ego Elements Function Athlete Clarity Remove Athletics

Author:Garth Stein

“I'm probably the most militant person you'll ever meet and I speak my mind without provocation sometimes.”

Mind Persons Sometimes Speak Militant Provocation

Author:Octavia Spencer

“Let's just say that I have a tendency if I am uncomfortable in a situation to speak my mind.”

Ifs Mind Speak Situation Tendencies Uncomfortable

Author:Octavia Spencer

“It is simple nonsense to speak of the fixed tempo of any particular vocal phrase. Each voice has its peculiarities.”

Speak Voice Simple Particular Fixed Phrases Nonsense Vocal Tempo

Book:On Conducting

Source: On Conducting

“For better or worse, when Sen. Inhofe speaks, the Republican Party follows. And when the Republican Party follows, it is impossible to get real work done in the Congress.”

Real Done Speak Party Impossible Republican Congress Republican Party Get Real Work Done Real Work

Author:Bernie Sanders

“I'm more straightforward, and I speak up more than I did before. When I was younger, I wouldn't speak up as much, but now that I'm a mom, things have changed.”

Speak Changed Mom Straightforward Things Have Changed

Author:Britney Spears

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