Top 100 Don't Speak Quotes
#1. I bareley knew how to say "my name is," "please" and "thank you," or "I don't speak english," never mind understanding a Newfoundlander talking to me!
Sergei Ivantchev
#2. I like the idea of going to one of those retreats where you don't speak - like, silence for five days.
Madonna Ciccone
#3. You ask me why I don't speak
Not a word at will
But write so much worth well over a mill'
Well I value words like I value kisses
A sober one, a closer one penetrates the heart
Darling it's how it mends it
Criss Jami
#4. When you're in other people's country you don't speak your own language out of respect. You don't need to speak.
Warwick Thornton
#5. I was always, and I still am to a certain extent, one of those lazy people who spends a lot of time with Italian friends and yet constantly says I don't speak Italian. Things slow down when I start speaking Italian.
Tilda Swinton
#6. Don't speak negatively and don't listen to those who do.
Ron Luce
#7. Go to countries where you don't speak the language. Eat food that looks like you may not like it. Read all of the holy books.
Michael Skolnik
#8. People call me old-fashioned. The younger guys on the force, they bust my chops because I don't speak their language. Harvey Bullock, dinosaur ... because, nope, I didn't see that show last night, where they prance around and belt out awful covers and vote each other into the damn ocean or whatnot.
Scott Snyder
#9. I don't speak particularly well. That's one of the consequences of being extremely ugly.
Chris Martin
#10. Don't speak evil of someone if you don't know for certain, and if you do know ask yourself, why am I telling it?
Johann Kaspar Lavater
#11. There's 3 types of fans. There's the ones that scream, the ones that want to talk to you and the ones that don't speak at all.
Zayn Malik
#12. The gray-green surface changes to the bright colors of our three images, sharpening and deepening all at once. And although we don't speak, I know we all see it: Together we look like our mother. Her same eyes, her same mouth, open in surprise to see, at last, her long-cherished wish.
Amy Tan
#14. Move beyond the educated elite, and the great majority in most countries outside Europe don't speak English.
Martin Jacques
#15. That's not me talking, it's your inner voice. I'd attempt the accent, only I don't speak low self-esteem. It's a language I've never needed to learn.
Sophie Hannah
#16. Don't speak. Let me think, or, rather, let me try not to think.
Oscar Wilde
#17. MTV and the culture industry never are talking about community relevance, hood organization, they aren't talking about ethical codes, they aren't talking about forms of political organization, they don't speak about codes inside the jails. What they talk about are superficial things.
Bocafloja
#18. When we don't speak, said Edgar, we become unbearable, and when we do, we make fools of ourselves.
Herta Muller
#19. I love some films with very silent characters, people who don't speak, but I wouldn't be able to do that.
Arnaud Desplechin
#20. We know the goats are imported because they don't speak English.
Scott Adams
#21. If you don't speak out now when it matters, when would it matter for you to speak out?
Jim Hightower
#22. I don't speak Spanish, and I get so much crap for it. Oddly enough, it was the first language I learned, but somehow I lost it throughout the years. I can understand pieces of it, but I don't speak it. I need to speak it. I want to teach my kids Spanish.
Ryan Guzman
#23. I don't speak anything fluently, but I love picking up languages and I do this Duolingo app. I started when I moved to Sweden, when I was about 19, 20. I really loved the language; it was super melodic and really sexy.
Eliot Paulina Sumner
#24. Those who don't know speak...Those who really know, don't speak!!!!
Kre Kre
#25. I don't speak with proper grammar. I don't speak with dialogue attribution. I don't speak with quotation. I don't care about any of that stuff. It's about rhythm, and it's about what's in their [the character's] head, and what feels more natural. And it's about speed. I want things to move.
James Frey
#26. The empire took Rhenydd through deceit, murder, and trickery. I don't speak treason. I speak loyalty- loyalty to the monarchy. To sit by and let the empire rape this kingdom and burn this city is treason and, what's more, it's foolhardy cowardice!
Michael J. Sullivan
#27. A man can't love you because you haven't read as many books as he has? He can't love you because you don't speak French or because you don't go to operas? You're telling me we have to fall in love with people who are just like us?
Billie Letts
#28. It wasn't that I couldn't say it. I could. But there are times that you don't speak, because silence hurts less. There was no need to reopen old wounds when we both wanted them healed.
Kat Howard
#30. With cats, some say, one rule is true: Don't speak till you are spoken to.
T. S. Eliot
#31. Except for those who think in terms of pious platitudes or dogma or narrow prejudice (and those thoughts we aren't interested in), people don't speak their beliefs easily, or publicly.
Edward R. Murrow
#32. She don't speak," said the big man in the yellow cloak. "You bloody bastards cut her throat too deep for that. But she remembers." He turned to the dead woman and said, "What do you say, m'lady? Was he part of it?" Lady Catelyn's eyes never left him. She nodded.
George R R Martin
#33. I consider myself a pretty good conversationalist, but you wind up being downgraded to idiot status when you don't speak the language!
Alec Baldwin
#34. Roppongi is now virtually a foreign neighborhood. Africans-I don't mean African-Americans-who don't speak English are there doing who knows what. This is leading to new forms of crime such as car theft. We should be letting in people who are intelligent.
Shintaro Ishihara
#35. There's an old Russian saying that goes some way or another. I don't know it. I don't speak Russian. But sometimes I think about it and wonder if it's relevant to what I'm going through at the time. Probably not. I mean what do Russian know about hunger, anyway?
Demetri Martin
#36. Christina and I don't speak, but I know our thoughts are the same, fixed on Uriah, on his last breaths.
Veronica Roth
#37. I don't speak Spanish, I speak a little of Italian but no Spanish.
Karl Lagerfeld
#38. I don't speak Filipino or Spanish, but I've sung in both.
Jessica Sanchez
#39. I don't speak because I have the power to speak; I speak because I don't have the power to remain silent.
Abraham Isaac Kook
#40. New Jersey is very big. There are different areas of New Jersey. There is North New Jersey. There is like the center. There are a lot of actors from New Jersey that don't speak with a New Jersey accent.
Janet Montgomery
#41. I said 'I'm sorry, sir, but we don't speak Swedish.'
'Well, of course you don't. Neither do I. Who the hell speaks Swedish?
John Green
#42. Don't touch me! Don't question me! Don't speak to me! Stay with me!
Samuel Beckett
#43. A song is like a smile. If you meet people from another country, even if you don't speak the same language, you know what a smile means. A song works the same way. Music produces feelings that need no translation.
Clay Aiken
#44. We stand there, knee deep in the water, holding hands. The silence is thunderous with words we don't speak. I feel his presence beside me like it's an extension of my own body, tall and strong and so, so beautiful. But I can't look at him. Right now, it hurts too damn much.
Nicole Christie
#45. Don't try to be in control and don't speak. The only word you're permitted to say tonight is Mark. I don't want anything else leaving those plump lips of yours. My dick's going in and only my name's coming out... that and my cum.
Aven Jayce
#46. Nick froze instantly. You don't mock my mother. You don't speak of her in anything but the most reverent of tones. I don't care if you are Death, I will open a can of Cajun whup-ass all over you, boy.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#47. I always like a charity with people who don't speak English because I get them to do all kinds of things around my house.
Joan Rivers
#48. Americans don't speak foreign languages, by and large. Their interest in anything beyond the borders of the country is limited. A European of any cultivation has to speak a couple of languages; he inevitably without being very thoughtful about it gets to understand what other people think about him.
Arthur Miller
#49. When I moved to Bombay, it was very harsh. I was nothing like what I am today. I couldn't speak a word of English. In England, people might be very understanding about that, but in Bombay, they're not very forgiving. 'If you don't speak English, how do you expect to work in Hindi films?'
Kangana Ranaut
#50. Don't speak of action [effect]. Don't serve the action [effect]. It is a result. But serve the causes [do the causes]. Nothing will be achieved unless you serve the cause.
Dada Bhagwan
#51. Come writers and critics Who prophesize with your pen And keep your eyes wide The chance won't come again And don't speak too soon For the wheel's still in spin And there's no tellin' who That it's namin' For the loser now Will be later to win For the times they are a-changin'.
Bob Dylan
#52. I don't speak French, but I took it for five years growing up. So, if I were in a situation where I had to be, like, 'Excuse me, pineapple dog house red, what time is it library?' - no problem.
Eugene Mirman
#53. Dreamers like your wife are limited, little Helldiver." She makes sure I don't speak.
"Understand that. The only power they have is in death. The harder they die, the louder
their voice, the deeper the echoes. But your wife served her purpose.
Pierce Brown
#54. I think that if writers don't speak about real life, it's because they don't know it.
Michel Houellebecq
#55. Never talk to the cops, I don't speak pig latin.
Lil' Wayne
#56. 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.
Confucius
#57. Gossip is an idle talk that makes you look worse than the person you are talking about, and people tend to have more confidence in the person you talked about when they get tired of your gossip. Speak with love and kindness or don't speak at all.
Uzoma Nnadi
#58. You don't speak of dreams as unreal. They exist. They leave a mark behind them.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#59. I don't speak Spanish. I've done Spanish 1 and 2 classes. My grandma asked me when I was young if I wanted to learn Spanish, and I guess I was young. I should have, because it would have helped me a lot.
Scotty McCreery
#60. Increasingly, corporate executives who don't speak Japanese are coming into Japan. Unlike their predecessors, they expect their employees to be able to communicate in English.
Rebecca MacKinnon
#61. Zane." Ty's voice was harsh in his ear. "Don't speak geek to me when you're naked. It shatters the illusion.
Abigail Roux
#62. I was born in Brooklyn and raised in Pittsburgh. I've never been to Iran, I don't speak the language, and, probably most important of all, my Iranian father left home when I was nine months old. That's the extent of my connection to Iran.
Said Sayrafiezadeh
#63. In places in the world where we don't speak the same language, or even understand that we pray to the same God, we dance to the same beat, that is the ONE.
Debbie Allen
#64. My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness.
Thom Mayne
#66. I unfortunately don't speak French, but my wife is now fluent in English, which really reflects rather badly on me.
Sean Connery
#67. I don't speak, I float in the air wrapped in a sheet
I'm not a real person, I'm a ghost trapped in a beat
Eminem
#68. I don't speak, I operate a machine called language. It creaks and groans, but is mine own.
Frank Herbert
#69. We're afraid the others will think we're agringadas because we don't speak Chicano Spanish. We oppress each other trying to out-Chicano each other, vying to be "real" Chicanas, to speak like Chicanos. There is no one Chicano language just as there is no one Chicano experience.
Gloria E. Anzaldua
#70. You forget, when you're in the Scandinavian countries, you forget they don't speak English first and they speak better than I do.
Doug Stanhope
#71. The rule is, don't speak of the dead, not don't speak ill of the dead's terrible relatives.
Erin McKean
#72. I don't speak Otter, ya dumbass. What are ya waitin' for? Get over here so we can get back to the rez. Unless I'm talkin' to a real otter, in which case I'm the dumbass and you can just stay over there. I
Kevin Hearne
#73. When you suffer, don't speak. Look inside and listen for the duaa He inspires in you. and then ask Him. Again and again. Don't stop.
Yasmin Mogahed
#74. I don't speak English, so I cannot foresee a career in Hollywood. But I do see myself more and more as an actress rather than a dancer.
Monica Cruz
#75. People strangely revere dance. They see it as another world, and dancers are somehow mysterious - just because they don't speak.
Matthew Bourne
#76. Almost all politicians drive me insane. These people are supposed to be looking after us. What I hate is that we don't speak up enough as a nation and take on the government.
Ray Winstone
#77. I don't speak during the day. I warm up physically and, obviously, vocally, constantly. And I try to live like a nun.
Kristin Chenoweth
#78. I have family in Italy that my mother keeps in contact with, but I don't because I don't speak Italian.
Pauly D
#79. The different Washington, D.C.-based groups and the different special interest groups, they all want to be able to pick who they want to be a senator. They don't speak for everyone, and they definitely don't speak for Oklahomans.
James Lankford
#80. If you don't speak out when it matters, when would it matter to speak out?
Jim Hightower
#81. It as true that normal people couldn't hear Gaspode speak, because dogs don't speak. It's a well know fact.
...
Besides, almost all dogs don't talk. Ones that do are merely a statistical error, and can therefore be ignored.
Terry Pratchett
#82. If you don't speak Greek, how do you know if it's all Greek to you?
Jarod Kintz
#83. Don't speak thoughtlessly.
Don't worry unnecessarily.
Don't work half-heartedly.
Don't spend recklessly.
Don't give begrudgingly.
Don't act self-centeredly.
Don't live short-sightedly.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#84. When I liberate myself, I liberate others. If you don't speak out ain't nobody going to speak out for you.
Fannie Lou Hamer
#85. Germans don't speak in a German accent, they just speak German.
Daniel Day-Lewis
#86. And I did say excuse me, with my butt. Apparently you don't speak rectum.
Ellen Hopkins
#87. It's fascinating when you're from another place, but you don't speak the language.
Marcus Samuelsson
#88. Even if I'm in Japan and I don't speak Japanese and the woman facing me doesn't speak French but she's dressed in Rykiel, and she recognizes me, then we have a common language right away.
Sonia Rykiel
#89. Modeling is a lonely business ... You don't speak. You don't really portray anything but an image ... the business is so superfluous about dealing with the outside, it messes with your mind.
Kim Alexis
#90. If you don't speak Spanish, then don't accuse me of insulting you in that language, let alone insulting you ten times.
Luis Suarez
#91. I don't speak about my pain. My pain is something that doesn't need to be purged. I want to prevent people from suffering. I don't speak about my suffering. Suffering is something personal and discreet. Also, I know it will never leave me. I don't want it to leave me. It would be a betrayal.
Elie Wiesel
#92. I've asked around and haven't found a B.A. yet who doesn't still have nightmares (and I don't speak figuratively) about not being able to find the room where the exam is to be given or about realizing at the last moment that he has not once attended the course.
Elizabeth Savage
#93. We don't speak of it, or react to it. Paralyzed in a reality of uncertainty and madness,this is where we are.
Danielle Rohr
#94. My parents are very funny when they have to deal with anything racy or off-color. They usually pretend they don't speak English.
Margaret Cho
#95. I don't speak Arabic - I know a little to get by, but that's all.
Laura Poitras
#96. Honestly, I'm cool with everyone, and people pick up on that. I'd say, 'I'm not gay, but it's all good.' It's kind of like going to Paris when you don't know the language; some Americans get into trouble over there, but I'm just like, 'Sorry, I don't speak French.'
Dylan McDermott
#97. The properties of people and the properties of character have almost nothing to do with each other. They really don't. I know it seems like they do because we look alike, but people don't speak in dialogue. Their lives don't unfold in a series of scenes that form a narrative arc.
Aaron Sorkin
#98. Xander, don't speak Latin in front of the books.
Joss Whedon
#99. For over ten years I always had, but I don't speak English.
Zhang Yimou
#100. I think Russia is a difficult country, and it's very difficult for people to adapt here, especially if they don't speak the language well.
Maelle Gavet
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