Best Spokes Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“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

“In our family, there wasn't anything else besides art. Nothing else in the world existed. My father never spoke about going to a movie or listening to music, other than my mother's singing.”

World Art Mother Father Listening Singing Our Family Spokes Listening To Music

Author:Kiki Smith

“Since this war began our sympathy has gone out to all the suffering people who have been dragged into it. Further hundreds of millions have become involved since I spoke at Limerick fortnight ago.”

People Has Beens War Suffering Millions Gone Involved Spokes Sympathy Limerick Fortnight

Author:Eamon de Valera

“If God suffers in the flesh when He is made man, should we not rejoice when we suffer, for we have God to share our sufferings? This shared suffering confers the kingdom on us. For he spoke truly who said, 'If we suffer with Him, then we shall also be glorified with Him' (Rom. 8:17).”

Ifs Men Should Made Said Christian Suffering Share Flesh Kingdoms Spokes Orthodox Rejoice Orthodox Christian

Author:Maximus the Confessor

“The story about me, apocryphal or not, is that I could sing before I spoke. My parents went into bedroom one day and there I was standing in the crib singing God Bless America.”

Stories America Parent One Day Singing Standing Spokes Bless Bedroom God Bless God Bless America

Author:Linda Lavin

“Coming from a technology background, I mostly worked behind the scenes or let the men take the lead. I had to learn to assert myself, communicate and be heard. I made sure that once I had my voice, I spoke for those who didn't - especially women.”

Men Made Voice Behinds Technology Heard He Man Scene Communicate Backgrounds Spokes Behind The Scenes

Author:Regina Agyare

“I suspect that Jesus spoke many of his parables as a kind of sad and holy joke and that that may be part of why he seemed reluctant to explain them because if you have to explain a joke, you might as well save your breath.”

Ifs Wells Kind May Might Jesus Holy Jokes Breaths Spokes Suspects Reluctant Parables

Author:Frederick Buechner

“I grew up speaking Spanish and English. My mother can speak Spanish, English, French and Italian, and she's pretty good at faking Portuguese. I wish that I spoke more languages than I do.”

Mother Speak Language Wish Grew Grew Up Spokes Italian Portuguese Spanish And English Speaking Spanish

Author:Sebastian Arcelus

“When I discovered Gil Scott-Heron, I discovered a musical hero, a man who spoke baritone truth to power over jazzy funk at a time when funky music was primarily about shake, shake, shaking your booty.”

Men Hero Musical Shakes Spokes Shaking Funk Funky Booty Herons Baritones

Author:Will Hermes

“I would say Pittsburgh softly each time before throwing him up. Whisper Pittsburgh with my mouth against the tiny ear and throw him higher. Pittsburgh and happiness high up. The only way to leave even the smallest trace. So that all his life her son would feel gladness unaccountably when anyone spoke of the ruined city of steel in America. Each time almost remembering something maybe important that got lost.”

Way Feels Important America Remember Lost Cities Son Higher Mouths Ears Tiny Spokes Throwing Smallest Steel Ruined Gladness Pittsburgh

Book:The Great Fires: Poems, 1982-1992

Source: The Great Fires: Poems, 1982-1992

“Last time I spoke to my mom she called me from a pay phone, and we didn't have the best talk. Ever since my stepdad passed away three years ago, she has been very depressed and hasn't been herself at all.”

Years Has Beens Lasts Three Pay Mom Years Ago Phones My Mom Spokes Three Years Last Time Passed Away Very Depressed Stepdads

Author:Eric West

“I spoke bluntly about what I had seen in a little over a year as United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. To the apparent surprise of many in the room, I observed publicly that insider trading appeared to be rampant.”

Years Littles States United Rooms United States New York Surprise Spokes Southern Trading Attorney Insiders Insider Trading

Author:Preet Bharara

“Most people who read "The Communist Manifesto" probably have no idea that it was written by a couple of young men who had never worked a day in their lives, and who nevertheless spoke boldly in the name of "the workers". Thomas Sowell .”

People Men Ideas Young Names Written Couple Workers Communism No Idea Young Man Spokes Communist Nevertheless Manifestos Communist Manifesto

Author:Thomas Sowell

“I call it "pedal magic" and only those who ride know the utter ecstasy of bicycling. Pressing a pedal toward Earth gives flight to my fancy. Every rotation powers my traveling machine toward yet another date with destiny. The breeze clears my senses. The wind blows away my troubles. The sun shines upon my future. Spinning spokes create flashing metal upon an endless path-cycling feels like an infinite spiritual rush. It cleanses my mind. All my troubles fade into joy.”

“My father spoke with his hands. He was deaf. His voice was in his hands. And his hands contained his memories.”

Hands Father Voice Memories Dad Spokes Deaf

Book:Hands of My Father: A Hearing Boy, His Deaf Parents, and the Language of Love

Source: Hands of My Father: A Hearing Boy, His Deaf Parents, and the Language of Love

“In the early stages of the fight Mr. Winston Churchill spoke with affectionate raillery of me and my "Chicks." He could have said nothing to make me more proud; every Chick was needed before the end.”

Said Ends Fighting Stage Proud Needed Aviation Spokes Chicks Affectionate Air Power Airpower

Author:Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding

“I have always used the burqa because men are using the burqa in the name of culture and religion to take freedom from women. Women are alive, they have their own wishes and desires, but all the time they have to sacrifice that. They are a kind of skeleton, which doesn't have muscles. They're just breathing, like a kind of puppet that barely exists. If women spoke for their rights, they were beaten by their husbands. So they don't have a voice. They lose their voices and their wishes and their happiness.”

Ifs Men Kind Used Desire Culture Names Wish Voice Loses Alive Rights Sacrifice Husband Breathing Muscles Spokes Beaten Men Women Puppets Skeletons Burqa Culture And Religion

Author:Malina Suliman

“The swifter hand doth the swift words outrun: Before the tongue hath spoke the hand hath done.”

Done Hands Tongue Spokes Outrun

Book:The Epigrams of Martial

Source: The Epigrams of Martial

“Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounce 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.”

Ifs Speak Lines Player Stage Praying Speech Mouths Towns Tongue Spokes I Pray Whirlwind Theatre Acting

Author:William Shakespeare

“Who wouldn't want to vote for a guy who was a peaceful, radical, non-violent revolutionary; who hung around with lepers, hookers, and crooks; who never spoke English; was not an American citizen; anti-capitalism; totally anti-death penalty; anti-public prayer (Matthew 6:5); but never once anti-gay; didn't mention abortion; and was a long-haired, brown-skinned, homeless, middle-eastern, Jew?”

“It's amazing when you get to a certain age, and you talk about sleep in the same way you spoke about getting inebriated... I got eight hours last night. It was fantastic!”

Way Age Lasts Night Certain Hours Sleep Eight Fantastic Spokes Last Night

Author:Johnny Depp

“Everything dictated silence and self-control but I couldn't restrain myself and spoke my mind.”

Mind Self Silence Spokes Confession Self Control

Book:Operation Shylock: A Confession

Source: Operation Shylock: A Confession

“I think secrets often come out. I spoke to a friend who is a therapist and I asked her if there were people who came to her and admitted to doing horrible things and she said, 'More than you know.'.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Said Secret Horrible Spokes Therapists Horrible Things

Author:Alice Hoffman

“What they say about footballers being ignorant is rubbish. I spoke to a couple yesterday and they are quite intelligent.”

Couple Intelligent Yesterday Ignorant Spokes Footballer Rubbish Being Ignorant

Author:Raquel Welch

“Jesus ... associated with the outcasts; he spoke with them, touched them, ate with them, loved them.”

Jesus Touched Spokes Outcast

Book:Everybody's Normal Till You Get to Know Them

Source: Everybody's Normal Till You Get to Know Them

“Your presence was shore where I rested/ released from the hoodoo of that dance, where I spoke/ with my true voice again.”

Voice Dance Spokes Shore Your Presence

Book:Collected Prose

Source: Collected Prose

“Once as I sat painting, I became aware of a man's face hovering near me, moving closer and closer to the panel I was working on. When he spoke he said, 'That is a fantastic brush!”

Men Said Faces Moving Audience Painting Fantastic Sat Spokes Brushes Hovering Moving Closer

Author:Robert Genn

“He spoke, and loos'd our heart in tears. He laid us as we lay at birth On the cool flowery lap of earth.”

Heart Art Earth Tears Birth Lays Spokes Lap

Author:Matthew Arnold

“If all politicians fished instead of spoke publicly, we would be at peace with the world.”

Ifs World Would Be Politician Fishing Spokes Great Fishing

Author:Will Rogers

“Thomas Jefferson spoke of certain truths as self-evident. He did not say that these truths were self-explanatory or that they were self-operating.”

Inspirational Self Certain Spokes Evident

Author:J. Martin Klotsche

“Zen was a reaction. Just as Buddha came into the world and spoke against the fall of Vedanta, so Buddhism lost its essence and became ritual. Zen was a reaction to that.”

World Fall Lost Buddhism Essence Reactions Spokes Ritual Introduction Vedanta

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When I was 11, I moved to the United States with my two brothers and my mom. We moved to northern New York, up near the Canadian border, from Argentina, and there was nobody there that spoke Spanish, and because there was no internet at the time, not even cable TV yet, I lost the connection with my childhood friends and the culture I had been brought up with for my first decade completely.”

“Jesus spoke in such a way that the people loved the things of God. That’s why they followed him.”

People Way Jesus Spokes

Book:Morning Homilies III

Source: Morning Homilies III

“When I was child, I never spoke. Teacher used to write remarks on my note book. My mom sent me to a trainer. I started talking, and it gave me confidence.”

Writing Children Book Used Talking Teacher Mom Notes My Mom Spokes Remarks Trainers Note Book

Author:Boman Irani

“The lights of Saxon England were going out, and in the gathering darkness a gentle, grey-beard prophet foretold the end. When on his death-bed Edward spoke of a time of evil that was coming upon the land his inspired mutterings struck terror into the hearers.”

Ends Light Evil Darkness Land Bed England Inspired Terror Gentle Prophet Spokes Going Out Grey Gathering Beard Death Bed Muttering

Book:History of the English Speaking Peoples: Based on the Text of 'A History of the English-speaking Peoples' by Sir Winston Churchill

Source: History of the English Speaking Peoples: Based on the Text of 'A History of the English-speaking Peoples' by Sir Winston Churchill

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

Speak Jokes Ghost Spokes Old Jokes

Author:Bill Vaughan

“One learned gentleman, "a sage grave man," Talk'd of the Ghost in Hamlet, "sheath'd in steel"— His well-read friend, who next to speak began, Said, "That was poetry, and nothing real;" A third, of more extensive learning, ran To Sir George Villiers' Ghost, and Mrs. Veal; Of sheeted Spectres spoke with shorten'd breath, And thrice he quoted Drelincourt on Death.”

Men Wells Said Real Next Speak Thirds Breaths Graves Ghost Ran Gentleman Spokes Steel Sage Thrice Spectre

Author:Bill Vaughan

“From purest wells of English undefiled None deeper drank than he, the New World's Child, Who in the language of their farm field spoke The wit and wisdom of New England folk.”

World Wells Children Language Fields England Folks Deeper Wit Spokes Farms New World Drank New England Wit And Wisdom

Book:Personal Poems, Complete Volume IV., the Works of Whittier: Personal Poems

Source: Personal Poems, Complete Volume IV., the Works of Whittier: Personal Poems

“I'm hard pressed to give an example on the spot of a president who explicitly spoke of the vindication of history, but I'm confident that there are many such examples.”

Giving Hard President Example Spots Spokes Vindication

Author:David Greenberg

“It's my greatest success. Women did not vote in Italy until 1946. A good friend and I put together a group of women to protest this. I was very young, just a girl. We went to the Viminale [home of the Ministry of the Interior] and spoke to the chair of the ministry board. Thanks to our initiative, we got the bureaucracy rolling on giving women the right to vote. I have to thank my father for this. He was in Geneva at the League of Nations, and women voted there. He thought it was absurd that women didn't vote in his country yet.”

“The ultimate moment where I most felt like a rebel was in St. Petersburg, Russia [in 2012 during the MDNA Tour] when I was told they were going to arrest anyone who was openly or obviously gay and they came to my shows and I spoke out against the government.”

Moments Shows Government Felt Gay Ultimate Russia Spokes Rebel

Author:Madonna Ciccone

“The Nazis spoke of having a Jewish problem. We now speak of having a drug-abuse problem. Actually, "Jewish problem" was the name the Germans gave to their persecution of the Jews; "drug-abuse problem" is the name we give to the persecution of people who use certain drugs.”

People Giving Use Problem Certain Names Speak Drug Abuse Jew Spokes Nazi Persecution Drug Abuse

Author:Thomas Szasz

“Flaubert spoke true: to succeed a great artist must have both character and fanaticism and few in this country are willing to pay the price. Our writers have either no personality and therefore no style or a false personality and therefore a bad style; they mistake prejudice for energy and accept the sensation of material well-being as a system of thought.”

“The very first words that we, the American nation, spoke were right here in Philadelphia. You know those words: "We the people." It wasn't, "We the conglomerates." It wasn't, "We the corporations." It was, "We the people."”

People Knows Firsts Nations Corporations Spokes Philadelphia

Author:Al Gore

“Between his eyes, there were four lines, the marks of such misery as children should never feel. He spoke with that wonderful whisky voice that so many Spanish children have, and he was a tough and entire little boy.”

Feels Should Children Littles Eye Voice Lines Boys Four Wonderful Tough Mark Misery His Eyes Spokes Whiskey Little Boys Whisky Scotch Whiskey

Author:Martha Gellhorn

“When I look at 'Napoleon Dynamite”s style I'm reminded of how I spoke when I was an eight-year-old boy. It was just like capturing the essence of, 'Duh!' It was just like the stuff that I would say when I was like eight, nine, ten years old.”

Years Looks Stuff Boys Style Ten Essence Eight Nine Spokes Dynamite Duh

Author:Jason Reitman

“Insofar as I think about postmodernism at all, and it doesn't exactly keep me awake at nights, I think of it as something that happens to one, not a style one affects. We're postmoderns because we're not modernists. The modernist writersPound, Eliot, Joyce, Stevens, Yeats, Woolf, Williamsspoke with a kind of vatic authority: they were really the last of the Romantics, for whom authorship itself was like being a solitary prophet in the wasteland.”

Thinking Kind Happens Lasts Night Style Authority Awake Prophet Pounds Spokes Solitary Postmodernism Authorship Joyce Postmodern Eliot Wasteland Woolf Awake At Night Yeats

Author:Jonathan Raban

“I've learned a simple principle: all I have to do is be the best 'me' that I can be. One day when I read the Scripture about David, that he fulfilled his purpose for his generation. I knew God spoke to me.”

I Can Purpose Simple Principles Generations One Day Scripture I've Learned Being The Best Spokes Fulfilled

Author:Joel Osteen

“My mother spoke of Christ to my father, by her feminine and childlike virtues, and, after having borne his violence without a murmur or complaint, gained him at the close of his life to Christ.”

Mother Father Christ Virtue Violence Spokes Feminine Complaints Childlike

Author:Saint Augustine

“We judge so superficially of things, that common words and actions spoke and done in an agreeable manner, with some knowledge of what passes in the world, often succeed beyond the greatest ability.”

World Done Action Ability Common Judging Succeed Spokes Words And Actions

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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