Top 1200 Speak English Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

I am not a guy who can write speeches and when I speak I speak from the heart, I just say what I feel and what I believe in.

I would not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with great respect of the past.

I'm really quiet at home. I don't speak that much. However, when I'm in public, I make sure to speak to everyone.

I watched 'Drag Race Thailand' without any subtitles or voiceovers or anything; I don't speak Thai but I do speak drag, so I felt like I understood exactly what was going on, even though I couldn't speak Thai. I didn't understand anything they were saying but I knew exactly what was happening.

Speak any language, Turkish, Greek, Persian, Arabic, but always speak with love

In nature the most violent passions are silent; in tragedy they must speak and speak with dignity too.

I would have stage-fright if I had to speak with every one of the people before whom I speak.

To be an intellectual really means to speak a truth that allows suffering to speak.

While it is good to speak well, it is better to speak the truth.

But let's not speak of what might have been. Let us speak instead of what is. You are whole.

Do you want to injure someone's reputation? Don't speak ill of him, speak too well.

Those who speak against the great do not usually speak from morality, but from envy.

I have to laugh when the English claim they are such a wonderful nation. Everyone knows that Englishmen are really Germans, that the English kings were German, and that in Russia the emperors were either of German origin or received their education in Germany.

Propose to an Englishman any principle, or any instrument, however admirable, and you will observe that the whole effort of the English mind is directed to find a difficulty, a defect, or an impossibility in it. If you speak to him of a machine for peeling a potato, he will pronounce it impossible: if you peel a potato with it before his eyes, he will declare it useless, because it will not slice a pineapple.

Evidently an A level in English is a sacred trust, like something out of "The Lord of the Rings". You must go forth with your A level and protect the English language with your bow of elfin gold.

I don't believe in letting my words speak for me, I let my actions speak.

It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.

Every man may speak truly, but to speak methodically, prudently, and fully is a talent that few men have.

I speak a little Spanish but I am so impressed by people who can speak a lot of different languages.

I believed in God when cancer come to me. Now when I speak, I speak with authority because I've been there.

If you are going to be underestimated by people who speak more rapidly, the temptation is to speak slowly and strategically and outwit them.

For heaven's sake, all you fool speak not in the name of God, for He has his own tongue to speak!

When you speak of the Pat Rileys, the Phil Jacksons, you have to speak of Don Nelson and the success that he has had in the game.

The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That's Acting 101.

We admire Chaucer for his sturdy English wit.... But though it is full of good sense and humanity, it is not transcendent poetry.For picturesque description of persons it is, perhaps, without a parallel in English poetry; yet it is essentially humorous, as the loftiest genius never is.

How can one not speak about war, poverty, and inequality when people who suffer from these afflictions don't have a voice to speak?

The most difficult thing is that I don't speak Mandarin and I had this experience - of working in a language that I don't understand - before and it's really horrible. Eighteen years ago, I played a mute in one film because I couldn't speak Mandarin. There was another film where I had to speak Vietnamese. It's horrible!

Where are Jesse Jackson and Rev. Al Sharpton? They don't speak for Black America, and they don't speak for me.

It is hard to speak the truth about valued national institutions. But when they are not fit for purpose, we must speak out.

When I'm being interviewed, presumably it's because people want to know how I feel about something or what my motivation is, not because they want to hear what I sound like in English. I wouldn't be true to the task if I responded in my unrefined English.

I speak to people in the languagethey understand. First I have a dialogue, if that is not understood I speak inanother language. There is no remedy for this.

Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.

I speak and speak, [...] but the listener retains only the words he is expecting. [...] It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.

I speak Marathi fluently and even during shoots I make it a point to speak in the language for most of the time.

I do not assume to speak for anyone. I know I speak in direct opposition to the wishes of many by whom I am surrounded.

Every black American is bilingual. All of them. We speak street vernacular and we speak 'job interview.'

The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves.

I think in Arabic at times, but when I'm writing it's all in English. And I don't try to make my English sound more Arabic, because it would be phony - I'm imagining Melanie Griffith trying to do a German accent in Shining Through. It just wouldn't work. But the language in my head is a specific kind of English. It's not exactly American, not exactly British. Because everything is filtered through me, through my experience. I'm Lebanese, but not that much. American, but not that much. Gay, but not that much. The only thing I'm sure of, really, is that I'm under 5'7".

Do you wish people to speak well of you? Then do not speak at all yourself.

Whether I go to English-speaking countries or non-English-speaking countries I can just modulate to what works for them.

We speak loud. And we speak with our hands, but we're not aggressive like warwise. A Portuguese is not going to punch you for no reason.

What's always a challenge for me is that my Spanish is not the level of my English. Nor do I read in Spanish the way I read in English.

I speak my mind. I just speak my heart. I will not turn away from any question.

A lot of being a good voice is knowing when I have a place to speak and when it's appropriate. And to speak from the heart when I do.

Through reading literature we can make ghosts speak to us, and we can speak back to them.

In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.

I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.

My hero is me. Why? Because I was a poor little kid who was told, `Hey stupid, can`t you speak English?` Now all those people work for me. Despite whatever circumstances I came across, I was always able to rise to the top and there`s only one way to do that - by being selfish, but also by believing in yourself. Belief is self-knowing. Even Yoda out of Star Wars said, `Do or do not. There is no try.

If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.

...I will praise the English climate till I die—even if I die of the English climate. There is no weather so good as English weather. Nay, in a real sense there is no weather at all anywhere but in England. In France you have much sun and some rain; in Italy you have hot winds and cold winds; in Scotland and Ireland you have rain, either thick or thin; in America you have hells of heat and cold, and in the Tropics you have sunstrokes varied by thunderbolts. But all these you have on a broad and brutal scale, and you settle down into contentment or despair.

I speak Spanish to my children and they speak it better than me.

When you're in other people's country you don't speak your own language out of respect. You don't need to speak.

Quite often in acting, you have to play a certain part; you cannot speak as much as you want to speak.

The people have no ear, either for rhythm or music, and their unnatural passion for pianoforte playing and singing is thus all the more repulsive. There is nothing on earth more terrible than English music, except English painting.

Somehow this madness must cease. We must stop now. I speak as a child of God and brother to the suffering poor of Vietnam. I speak for those whose land is being laid waste, whose homes are being destroyed, whose culture is being subverted. I speak for the poor in America who are paying the double price of smashed hopes at home and death and corruption in Vietnam. I speak as a citizen of the world, for the world as it stands aghast at the path we have taken. I speak as an American to the leaders of my own nation. The great initiative in this war is ours. The initiative to stop it must be ours.

I speak fluent Spanish. I also speak Italian and I was once pretty decent at German.

There was a call for part-time volunteers to teach at local government schools in Bengaluru and I was part of this program. That was when I realized the situation in these schools. I taught them English and even Class 7 kids didn't know basic English.

To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

Some words, you know, it's amazing but some words would come only in French, and when I speak French, it would only come in English. And so the adjustment is very difficult sometimes.