Speak Quotes - Page 80

Love doesn't need to be discussed; it has its own voice and speaks for itself.

Don't tell readers what to think. Let the action speak for itself.

It's part of the reason I decided to speak out now. This was the tipping point for me. If it's O.K. for [David Petraeus ] to campaign for a job in the administration, then I'm going to campaign to get back out there, too.

I certainly think it's important to speak up and say how unacceptable Donald Trump is. I'm always more than willing to do that.

I've come to realize that making it your life's work to be different than your parents is not only hard to do, it's a dumb idea. Not everything we found fault with was necessarily wrong; we were right, for example, to resent, as kids, being told when to go to bed. We'd be equally wrong, as parents, to let our kids stay up all night. To throw out all the tools of parenting just because our parents used them would be like making yourself speak English without using ten letters of the alphabet; it's hard to do.

I've been asked several times over the years to become president, and I've always said no, because I didn't want to give up all the time from my work. The position won't be open for another year, but if they still want me then, I'll do it; I'll speak out as often as I can from that platform.

I don't speak fluent bumpkin.

I'm honestly not a big fan of pitching things. I'm a firm believer of letting the product speak for iteself.

Charles was most comfortable by himself or, if that wasn't possible, with his pack in the wild. Talking for hours in a crowded auditorium was not on any list of things he enjoyed—or things he was good at. At least no one had died. Yet.

I don't understand why the accent you speak in has to indicate what level of intellect you have.

She did not speak for speech was unknown to her.

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

It is some alleviation to ills we cannot cure to speak of them.

Speak, Lord”; make time to listen. Chastening is more than a means of discipline, it is meant to get me to the place of saying, “Speak, Lord.”

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.

Foxhunting... the unspeakable pursuing the inedible.

Anybody who speaks quietly and shrivels up in company is unbelievably arrogant.

Order and disorder', said the speaker, 'they each have their beauty.

Your work speaks for you. Your art defines you.

Making clothes that everybody can wear is also something that stimulates me a lot, because I have this edgy, fashion-y part, but I am also totally involved with a brand that is about how people dress, and what they want. And it's a whole other look you can have on the street. It's exciting because it speaks to the other part of my job and what my passion is. A designer wants to make something useful for as many people as possible.

I learned Spanish at home and, since half my family doesn't speak English, it's my first language.

Poets have the gift to speak for others, Vasko Popa had the very rare quality of hearing the others.

I'm excited that I get to do what I love, and I'm benefiting through projects that speak to me.

If the world is a precipitation of human nature, so to speak, then the divine world is a sublimation of the same. Both occur in one act. No precipitation without sublimation. What goes lost there in agility, is won here.

If the picture speaks to me, if it tells me something about myself, then I want it. Then I have to have it.