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Quotes About Speak

Oh contraire, mon frère. I'm able to annoy all adults in ten syllables or less. Sometimes, I don't even have to speak at all. I just walk into the room and it rankles them.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
And neither do I, asshole. (Wren) Wow. Multiple syllables and a whole sentence from the tiger. Who'd have ever thought it? Whoever she was, she must have had a lot of talent to make you speak. Next thing you know, she'll have the dead walking. Quick, call a Dark-Hunter. I'm sure some of them would like another resurrection. (Dev)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
To choose the ideal voice for a character is to give a character an ardent and vivid life, to allow him or her to speak, rather than speaking for them, in an older style of omniscient narration.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
It would be so irresponsible not to speak up. I don't know what I would do in my home and in my life if I didn't rant a little bit and as thoughtfully as I can with some humor.
~ Judd Apatow
The new frontier of which I speak is not a set of promises-it is a set of challenges. It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intend to ask of them. It appeals to their pride, not their pocketbook-it holds out the promise of more sacrifice instead of more security.
~ John Fitzgerald Kennedy
what makes a writer a prophet is his ability to speak truth...
~ John Geddes
Pomegranates you may cut deep down the middle and see into, but not hearts,—so why should I try and speak?
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
You who call yourselves liberals must understand that it is your way of life that is under threat. Withdraw my right to speak freely, and you jeopardize your own in the future. Ally yourselves with the Islamists at your peril. Tolerate their intolerance at your peril.
~ Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Do not wonder, if the common people speak more truly than those of high rank; for they speak with more safety.
~ bacon francis ix
It is a point of cunning, to wait upon him with whom you speak, with your eye; as the Jesuits give it in precept: for there be many wise men, that have secret hearts, and transparent countenances. Yet this would be done with a demure abasing of your eye, sometimes, as the Jesuits also do use.
~ bacon francis ix
The cats that are doing they thing, you have to search to really find them, to find rappers that can actually rap and speak messages in the music. That's not a good thing at all.
~ Astro
It is difficult to have the guts to speak up about any kind of sexual assault.
~ Chinmayi
One of the more urp-making habits of media mavens is presuming to speak for the American people, as in 'The American people won't stand for this!'
~ Molly Ivins
It is taken care of. Nothing will not break into my Pit or the Far Reaches! I cannot speak for the other parts of the House, but we have Nothing well in hand here. I understand Nothing as no one else does! - Grim Tuesday
~ Garth Nix
Nay, Sir, not of love," said he, "but a tale shall I relate as best I can, with hearty good will. I shall not disobey your request. Excuse me if I speak amiss. My intention is good. And, lo, my tale is this.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
A well-trained diplomat is supposed to write French, for example, like an angel, but to speak it with the peculiar gutlessness of a Geneva nancy-boy.
~ Geoffrey Household
we ought to think with the learned, and speak with the vulgar .
~ George Berkeley
There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
~ Baltasar Gracian
If one can judge from the letters that I receive, it would seem that there are many thousands of children who would like me to speak or to read to them.
~ Enid Blyton
It seems that these old cards were conceived deep in the guts of human experience, at the most profound level of the human psyche. It is to this level in ourselves that they will speak.
~ Sallie Nichols
as if the words came not from her but from the breeze.
~ Sally Gardner
Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.
~ Salman Rushdie
The Irish are a fair people - they never speak well of one another.
~ Samuel Johnson
It's easy to repeat; it's hard to speak
~ Samuel R. Delany