Famous Quotes & Sayings

Margaret Cho

Silence is so often applauded and those who speak out are often called tasteless.

Lauren Oliver

When he speaks again, I can tell that he's smiling. "So I guess we saved each other.

Oscar Wilde

Oh, don't cough, Ernest. When one is dictating one should speak fluently and not cough. Besides, I don't know how to spell a cough.

Michael Cunningham

As writers we must, from our very opening sentence, speak with authority to our readers.

Mary Matalin

Learn how to communicate, learn how to speak.

Mark Haddon

Everyone has learning difficulties, because learning to speak French or understanding relativity is difficult.

Marisa Tomei

I am really touched and surprised that your generation [of millenials] feels that way, and I'm really happy the work stands up. But that show [Seinfeld] is going to stand up for all time: it's one of the greatest things that has ever been written, and still speaks to the quirks of being a human being no matter what the era.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

Speak not against anyone whose burden you have not weighed yourself.

Maria Callas

When the curtain rises, the only thing that speaks is courage.

Mark Twain

I can speak French but I cannot understand it.

Mario Lemieux

I didn't speak English until I came to Pittsburgh.

Hans Hofmann

Painters must speak through paint, not through words.

George Muller

In the greatest difficulties, in the heaviest trials, in the deepest poverty and necessities, He has never failed me; but because I was enabled by His grace to trust Him He has always appeared for my help. I delight in speaking well of His name.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Let thy virtue be too high for the familiarity of names, and if thou must speak of it, be not ashamed to stammer about it.

Neale Donald Walsch

Speak your truth but soothe your words with peace

Milan Kundera

Speak truth to power.

Jose Maria Aznar

Speak less but act more.

Joanne Harris

I speak as I must and cannot be silent.

Heath Ledger

I am not a public speaker and never will be.

Helen Prejean

I realize that I cannot stand by silently as my government executes its citizens. If I do not speak out and resist, I am an accomplice.

Heraclitus

To be evenminded is the greatest virtue. Wisdom is to speak the truth and act in keeping with its nature.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

Norman Mailer

You have the right to speak your mind.

Octavio Paz

When we learn to speak, we learn to translate.

Michael Caine

One of the main things about Cockney is, you speak at twice the speed as Americans. Americans speak very slow.

Mahatma Gandhi

Many people, especially ignorant people, want to punish you for speaking the truth, for being correct, for being you. Never apologize for being correct, or for being years ahead of your time. If you’re right and you know it, speak your mind. Speak your mind. Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is still the truth.

Mahatma Gandhi

One has to speak out and stand up for one's convictions. Inaction at a time of conflagration is inexcusable.

(The hype) speaks for itself. It's a big game, and we're going to be prepared.

Neal Stephenson

If you sincerely believed in God, how could you form one thought, speak one sentence, without mentioning Him?

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 Wesley

October 6, 1774 I met those of our society who had votes in the ensuing election, and advised them 1. To vote, without fee or reward, for the person they judged most worthy 2. To speak no evil of the person they voted against, and 3. To take care their spirits were not sharpened against those that voted on the other side.