Quotes about speaking

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“I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you might nudge the world a little or make a poem that children will speak for you when you are dead.”

“You have friends who actually care about you and speak the language of the inner self. You have avoided them of late. Your soul is as disheveled as your apartment, and until you can clean it up a little you don't want to invite anyone inside.”

“The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speaks he lies.”

“Out here, it's better safe than sorry, because generally speaking, too much of the time sorry means you're dead.”

“A man speaking sense to himself is no madder than a man speaking nonsense not to himself.”

“That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can't say No in any of them.”

“Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee”

“Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart.”

“What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.”

“Speak to me."
"I hate you."
"Okay." Mad Rogan let go of me. "You're fine.”

“Listen to the secret sound, the real sound, which is inside you. The one no one talks of speaks the secret sound to himself, and he is the one who has made it all.”

“Marius and Cosette were in the dark in regard to each other. They did not speak, they did not bow, they were not acquainted; they saw each other; and, like the stars in the sky separated by millions of leagues, they lived by gazing upon each other.”

“I always speak the truth. Not the whole truth, because there's no way, to say it all. Saying it all is literally impossible: words fail. Yet it's through this very impossibility that the truth holds onto the real.”

“Courage originally meant "To speak one's mind by telling all one's heart.”

“there is nothing bad to fear; once you have crossed that threshold, all is well. Another world, and you do not have to speak”

“If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.”

“Tell no man anything, for no man listens
Yet hold thy lips ready to speak.”

“Any simpleton can speak with confidence. Sometimes the greatest fools have the most bravado.”

“Speaks well of a man to need a little something in this world. I wouldn't trust a man who could git through it cold sober.”

“We need more people speaking out. This country is not overrun with rebels & free thinkers. It's overrun with sheep & conformists.”

“Neither a person entirely broken
nor one entirely whole can speak.

In sorrow, pretend to be fearless. In happiness, tremble.”

“Atheists are my brothers and sisters of a different faith, and every word they speak speaks of faith. Like me, they go as far as the legs of reason will carry them -- and then they leap.”

“It is the mind that speaks a woman's heart, not the vaginal walls.”

“It is quite a three pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes.”

“I know you'll think this is crazy, but all I want to do is hold you, and I think that if you'll let me do that just for a few seconds, I can walk away, and never speak to you again.”

“With a gun barrel between your teeth, you speak only in vowels.”

“I would have offered you a forest of truth, but you wish to speak of a single leaf”

“Not wanting anyone to pop my bubble by speaking to me, I immediately began reading Lesbian Nuns, and that did the trick. No one attempted small talk.”

“What term do you employ when you speak of your progenitor?"
I answered with the term I'd always wanted to employ.
"Sonovabitch."
"To his face?" she asked.
"I never see his face."
"He wears a mask?"
"In a way, yes. Of stone. Of absolute stone.”

“My grandmother is a little Cuban woman who cooks all day and speaks Spanish. Your grandmother watches pay-per-view porn."
"She used to watch the Weather Channel, but she said there wasn't enough action."

-Ranger and Stephanie”

“More like some small, fierce bird of prey, something with a sharp bite. An owl perhaps, that speaks only when the rest of the world sleeps.
Jenny will do well enough.”

“A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it.”

“When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object. In the realm of kitsch, the dictatorship of the heart reigns supreme.”

“… all things speak, in their way, don't they?”

“I looked at her and tried to speak, but all I could think about was how shocked she'd be if I said what I was thinking.”

“He would always speak the language of the heart with an awkward foreign accent.”

“French: why does this language even exist? Everyone there speaks english anyway.”

“I am the Lorax who speaks for the trees,
Which you seem to be chopping as fast as you please!”

“Before I speak, I have something important to say.”

“I read that speaking in front of a crowd is the number-one fear in America. I found that amazing. Number two was death. Number two! That means that, if you're ever at a funeral, you'd rather be in the casket than giving the eulogy.”

“It was one of those parties where you cough twice before you speak and then decide not to say it after all.”

“When we learn to speak, we learn to translate.”

“Our mouths and bodies speak for us in a new language as the trees shake loose a rain of petals that stick to our slickness like skins we will wear forever. And just like that, I am changed.”

“Simon kept pace beside Clary for a few moments without speaking before he said, “So what did I miss? Naked dancing ladies?”
Clary thought of the male faerie‘s torn-open ribs and shuddered. “Nothing that pleasant.”

“The unconscious wants truth. It ceases to speak to those who want something else more than truth.”

“As Lacy waited for her turn to speak on Peter's behalf, she thought back to the first time she realized she could hate her own child.”

“We may speak about a place where there are no tears, no death, no fear, no night; but those are just the benefits of heaven. The beauty of heaven is seeing God.”

“Everything in life is speaking in spite of its apparent silence.”

“Everything that occurs out of necessity, everything expected, repeated day in and day out is mute. Only chance can speak to us. We read its message much as gypsies read the images made by coffee grounds at the bottom of the cup.”

“To speak a language is to take on a world, a culture.”

“Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.”

“But what happens when her beauty is torn from her like a cover from a book? Will he care to read her then, although her pages speak of nothing but love for him?”

“When Mutti and Vati came in I didn't speak to them. I just unfurled the CAT MOLESTERS banner I had made.”

“If she doesn't speak, she is making a choice. If she doesn't try, she can lose her chance forever.
-An-mei”

“Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones.”

“Generally speaking, I think it is fair to say that I am a friend to the creatures of the earth when I am not busy eating them or wearing them.”

“She frowned at me. "You need some rest. You look like hell. And you're obviously tired enough to have gotten the giggles."

Wizards don't giggle," I said, hardly able to speak. "This is cackling.”

“She wanted nothing more than someone to miss, to touch, with whom to speak like a child, with whom to be a child.”

“Thus we use our supposed "knowledge" of others to speak on their behalf, and condemn them for their words we ourselves put in their silent mouths.”

“Emily: YOU CAN'T SPEAK AND TYPE AT THE SAME TIME, BINDY!

Bindy: Watch me.”

“I don’t want to speak too disparagingly of my generation (actually I do, we had a chance to change the world but opted for the Home Shopping Network Instead)…”

“What was the point in satin and lace if it didn't make a man struggle to speak?”

“When a person should be spoken with, and you don't speak with them, you lose them. When a person shouldn't be spoken with and you speak to them, you waste your breath. The wise do not lose people, nor do they waste their breath.”

“For a week, almost without speaking,
they went ahead like sleepwalkers through a universe of grief, lighted only by the tenuous
reflection of luminous insects, and their lungs were overwhelmed by a suffocating smell of blood.”

“I dont think any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no longer enduring it.”

“I can speak to my soul only when the two of us are off exploring deserts or cities or mountains or roads.”

“All of us are born with a set of instinctive fears - of falling, of the dark, of lobsters, of falling on lobsters in the dark, of speaking before a Rotary Club, and of the words "Some Assembly Required".”

“Hi there," squeaked a precocious little voice, "you are speaking to Chloe Fusakawa, and I have just learned how to answer the phone.”

“but I find her personality annoying. It's like being molested by a sleeping bag that speaks in Comic Sans with little love-hearts over the i's.”

“There is fear hanging in the air of the sleeping halls, and the air of the streets. Fear walks through the city, fear without name, without shape. All men feel it and none dare speak.”

“On the contrary, there is something pleasing about his mouth when he
speaks. And there is something of dignity in the way his trousers cling to those most English parts
of him.”

“Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint.”

“Poetry speaks to you either at first sight or not at all. A flash of revelation and a flash of response.”

“[Jem] looked from Will to Tessa and raised his silvery eyebrows. "A miracle," he said. "You got him to speak."
"Just to shout at me, really," said Tessa. "Not quite loaves and fishes.”

“You see that massive giantess blocking the river?” “Technically speaking,” Jack said, “I can’t see anything, because I don’t have eyes. But yes, I see the giant.”

“There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.”

“I speak only of myself since I do not wish to convince, I have no right to drag others into my river, I oblige no one to follow me and everybody practices his art in his own way."

- Tristan Tzara "Dada Manifesto 1918”

“The purpose of influence is to "speak up for those who have no influence." (Pr.31:8) It's not about you.”

“Speak against unconscious oppression,
Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative,
Speak against bonds.”

“Suddenly, I don't know what to say. It happens often to me. I know what I want to say, I think about whether it is what I mean, but when the moment comes to speak, I can't say it.
- Nana Kleinfrankenheim, Vivre Sa Vie.”

“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.”

“An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.”

“My subconscious speaks in a foreign language.”

“The officer looked at Daisy while she was speaking, in a way that every young girl wants to be looked at sometime, and because it seemed romantic to me I have remembered the incident ever since.”

“Doreen had intuition. Everything she said was like a secret voice speaking straight out of my own bones.”

“The fact is, the heart and mind aren't always friendly.

And in my case, they're barely speaking.”

“Listen, my body is attracted to your body but when you speak it makes my brain angry.”

“It is a world of impulse. It is a world of sincerity. It is a world in which every word spoken speaks just to that moment, every glance given has only one meaning, each touch has no past or no future, each kiss is a kiss of immediacy.”

“The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.”

“It is true that I do not speak as well as I can think. But that is true of most people, as nearly as I can tell.”

“Seriously,” Shane said, “this kind of is the worst situation we’ve ever been in, right?”
“Speak for yourself,” Michael said. “I got myself killed last year. Twice.”
“Oh yeah. You’re right—last year really sucked for you.”

“I write description in longhand because that's hardest for me and you're closer to the paper when you work by hand, but I use the typewriter for dialogue because people speak like a typewriter works.”

“Even idiots ocasionally speak the truth accidentally.”

“I take no actions that I wouldn’t publicly recount. If you can’t speak your deeds, then don’t do them.”

“Men who believe that they are accomplishing something by speaking speak in a different way from men who believe that speaking is a waste of time.”

“I am a lie who always speaks the truth.”

“Why are you so sad?
- Because you speak to me in words and I look at you with feelings.”

“I have tried to write Paradise
Do not move
Let the wind speak.
that is paradise.
Let the Gods forgive what I
have made
Let those I love try to forgive
what I have made.”

“I'll call you," he repeated.
"If you call me, I won't pick up the phone."
"You will wait by the phone for my call, and when it rings, you will pick it up and you will speak to me in a civil manner. If you don't know how, ask someone.”