Famous Quotes & Sayings

Albert Camus

When silence or tricks of language contribute to maintaining an abuse that must be reformed or a suffering that can be relieved, then there is no other solution but to speak out and show the obscenity hidden under the verbal cloak.

Daniel Day-Lewis

Germans don't speak in a German accent, they just speak German.

E. M. Forster

Words deserted him immediately. He could only speak when he was not asked to.

Don DeLillo

You gave yourself away, word by word, every time you opened your trap to speak.

Cory Monteith

I'm Canadian, but no, I don't speak French.

Clive Barker

Wherever I go, I will speak of you with love.

Dan Castellaneta

If something goes wrong at the plant, blame the guy who can't speak English.

David Frum

[In politics,] when there is no reason to speak, there is a reason not to speak.

Curtis Hanson

I can't speak to how Michael [Douglas] approached it in terms of his process.

Cybill Shepherd

It's hard for women to talk about these things, and for the doctors to really talk about it too, and to even have the knowledge of what's going on. That's why I'm doing this and urging women to speak out and talk to their doctors frankly.

Cyndi Lauper

Everyone's gotta have a voice, to be able to speak out. Left supresses right, right supresses left, and what's left and what's right? You know? It's America. You gotta be able to speak out. That's why people came here from all over the world: to have a fair shake. Not more than somebody else - the same.

Desmond Tutu

If everyone who wants to see an end to poverty, hunger and suffering speaks out, then the noise will be deafening.

Alphonsus Liguori

Speak to Him often of your business, your plans, your troubles, your fears - of everything that concerns you.

Amy Tan

While it is good to speak well, it is better to speak the truth.

Christopher Walken

I grew up listening to people speaking broken English. I probably picked that up. And I probably speak English almost as a second language.

Christopher Walken

Somebody said to me that I speak English almost like somebody for whom English is not their first language.

Alvin Ailey

But the dance speaks to everyone. Otherwise it wouldn't work.

Anna Friel

These women need to feel that we're all aware of what they may be going through, to give them the confidence to speak out.

Anita Hill

I am hopeful that others who have suffered sexual harassment will not become discouraged by my experience, but instead will find the strength to speak out about this serious problem.

Andre Leon Talley

In my day you didn't speak until spoken to.

Andrea Bocelli

I speak to God every day.

Bob Dylan

She knows there's no success like failure, and that failure's no success at all.

Arthur Schopenhauer

We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.

Elie Wiesel

John XXI was a very great pope and he's the one who actually corrected the liturgy. He did so because of his friend Jules Isaac, a French Jewish historian who was a friend of John Paul, of John 23rd, and he convinced him and he changed the liturgy, no more Jew, the perfidious Jew and so forth and now, and don't speak any more of the Jews killing Christ. Things have changed.

Bev Perdue

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.

Bernie Ecclestone

Anyone who doesn't speak English isn't worth speaking to

Bear Grylls

How you speak about others speaks loudest about yourself.

August Strindberg

When people refuse to speak out for too long, it's like water that's stagnant and starts to rot!

Benjamin Franklin

He that speaks ill of the mare will buy her.

Benjamin Franklin

Would you persuade, speak of interest, not of reason.

Avril Lavigne

People like Shakira shouldnt have record contracts. She cant even speak English.

Arthur Conan Doyle

I don't speak for others and they don't speak for me.

Ban Ki-moon

I am not a national leader. If I am a national leader I can speak out all that I want.