Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ernest Hemingway

The writer must write what he has to say, not speak it.

Billy Graham

When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out.

Billy Graham

If I had to do it all over again, I would speak less and study more.

Carine Roitfeld

To see yourself on the big screen, you're big, you hate your voice, your vocabulary. You say the same words, you speak bad.

There's no need for me to speak to them.

Charles Coody

The tournament has really grown. I think that speaks very well for the city.

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.

Michael Cunningham

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

Mark Twain

I can speak French but I cannot understand it.

Michael Caine

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

John Ruskin

To speak and act truth with constancy and precision is nearly as difficult, and perhaps as meretorious, as to speak it under intimidation or penalty

John Poindexter

One of the reasons I continue to speak out is that the solutions to the counterterrorism problem involve other parts of the national security community - especially other elements of the Department of Defense, State, FBI, Homeland Security and the staff.

Theodore Roosevelt

Let us speak courteously, deal fairly, and keep ourselves armed and ready.

Theodore Hesburgh

Anyone who refuses to speak out off campus does not deserve to be listened to on campus.

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.

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.

John Greenleaf Whittier

Nature speaks in symbols and in signs.

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

Cindy Sheehan

I never said I speak for them, ... I speak for myself.

It is very important for us to speak English. Very, very, very important.

Daisaku Ikeda

Speak out tirelessly with conviction.

Claudia Black

Never trash-talk yourself or others. Stay curious. Speak your truth.

Mo Ibrahim

I need to be free, to speak the unspeakable. You can't do that in office.

Kelly Clarkson

I'm terrible at speaking when I cry. Thank you so much.

If there were any other, then I would speak of another.

Stephen Ames

I just speak my mind, and I always have.

J. C. Ryle

If you love Christ, never be ashamed to let others see it and know it. Speak for Him. Witness for Him. Live for Him.

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.