Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sean Connery

I unfortunately don't speak French, but my wife is now fluent in English, which really reflects rather badly on me.

Michelle Obama

I admit it: I am louder than the average human being and have no fear of speaking my mind. These traits don't come from the color of my skin but from an unwavering belief in my own intelligence.

Michelle Obama

I was not raised with wealth or resources or any social standing to speak of.

John Calvin

When the Bible speaks, God speaks.

Joan Rivers

I always like a charity with people who don't speak English because I get them to do all kinds of things around my house.

Louise Hay

I speak up for myself. I claim my power now.

Lady Gaga

The Monster Ball is by nature a protest: A youth church experience to speak out and celebrate against all forms of discrimination + prejudice.

Juliette Binoche

Some words, you know, it's amazing but some words would come only in French, and when I speak French, it would only come in English. And so the adjustment is very difficult sometimes.

John Lennon

I can't speak for George, but I pretty damn well know we got fed up of being sidemen for Paul.

Leonard Cohen

Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don't know what to say.

Lucy Stone

I was a woman before I was an abolitionist. I must speak for the women.

Louise Rennison

I‘ve said it once and I will say it again, why can‘t everyone just speak English? The Americans give it a bit of a go — why can‘t other nations?

Mahatma Gandhi

We cannot be speakers who do not listen. But neither can we be listeners who do not speak.

Otto von Bismarck

The most significant event of the 20th century will be the fact that the North Americans speak English.

Kami Garcia

Aw, come on. I barely speak English, unless we're talking about the Lowcountry kind.

Judy Collins

I was raised to speak out about politics and the world around me. I would do it whether I was in the public or not. It is the way I was taught. The American way

Maggie Kuhn

Leave safety behind. Put your body on the line. Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind - even if your voice shakes. When you least expect it, someone may actually listen to what you have to say. Well-aimed slingshots can topple giants.

Macklemore

You can only watch injustice go on for so long until you're compelled to say something. To speak out against it.

Meg Cabot

French: why does this language even exist? Everyone there speaks english anyway.

Kirk Douglas

If I have to speak in public, I am terrified.

Glenn Beck

Question with boldness, hold to the truth, and speak without fear,

Sometimes they can't speak English, and sometimes they just don't want to tell us they can understand English,

Leonardo DiCaprio

I feel a moral obligation to speak out at this key moment in human history - it is a moment for action.

Leonardo da Vinci

To speak ill of a good person is not truly good, all in all.

Patrick Rothfuss

I don't speak fluent bumpkin...

Patrick Rothfuss

I'm honestly not a big fan of pitching things. I'm a firm believer of letting the product speak for iteself.

Lauren Willig

The French just said he was a damned nuisance. Or they would have had they the good fortune to speak English. Instead being French they were forced to say it in their own language.

Navid Negahban

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

Mikhail Bulgakov

To speak the truth is easy and pleasant.

Martin Jacques

Our leaders increasingly see fit to lecture the ethnic minorities on the need to integrate, including of course the need to speak English. What about the need, though, for Britain to integrate with the rest of the world?

John Greenleaf Whittier

Nature speaks in symbols and in signs.

Oliver Goldsmith

We seldom speak of the virtue which we have, but much oftener of that which we lack.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

No one can speak well, unless he thoroughly understands his subject.