Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kristin Chenoweth

We sing because we can't speak anymore.

Kristin Scott Thomas

When I speak English, I've been told, I have this patrician way of speaking that's very irritating. It's the whole class thing.

Moliere

If you make yourself understood, you're always speaking well.

Nate Silver

We speak for them. We imbue them with meaning.

Julian Castro

I understand Spanish better than I speak it.

Isak Dinesen

It is difficult to restrain admirers of Shakespeare once they have begun to speak of him.

Hyman Rickover

Those involved with practical reactors, humbled by their experiences, speak less and worry more.

Harry Redknapp

Samassi Abou don’t speak the English too good.

George Herbert

Of him that speakes ill, consider the life more then the word. [Of him that speaks ill, consider the life more than the word.]

Friedrich Nietzsche

All names of good and evil are images; they do not speak out, they only hint. He is a fool who seeks knowledge from them.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Foolish is my happiness, and foolish things will it speak: it is still too young—so have patience with it!

Gloria Estefan

Those of you who speak only English, applaud [audience applause]. Those of you who speak only Spanish, applaud [audience applause]. [In mock incredulity] Then how do you know what I just said?

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.

Daniel Alfredsson

I can only speak for myself, but the No. 1 thing for me is to win a Stanley Cup.

LeBron James

I can only speak for myself, and I know I play the right way.

He's got a personality that, sometimes, he speaks his mind. And, sometimes, it doesn't come out right.

I can speak for Unity when I say we have everything we need.

Harold Pinter

I ought not to speak about the dead because the dead are all over the place.

Isaac Asimov

If there is a category of human being for whom his work ought to speak for itself, it is the writer.

Yoko Ono

Chemically speaking or biologically, we research things, but we don't know half of them. We only know our half of it - symbolically - and we don't know ourselves more than half.

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.

Marcel Achard

The lower one speaks the closer a woman listens.

Margaret Bourke-White

Life wanted faces that would express what we wanted to tell. Not just the unusual or striking face, but the face that would speak out the message from the printed page. I am always looking for some typical person or face that will tie the picture essay together in a human way.