Top 100 Speak It Quotes
#1. Don't say it do it, Don't act it out prove it, Don't just speak it make me believe it.
The Prolific Penman
#2. Take care with the words you speak, it's best to keep them sweet..... because you never know when you might have to eat them!
Karen Gibbs
#3. The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.
George Bernard Shaw
#4. If a lion could speak, it would not understand itself.
Michael Frayn
#5. This is the land, I say.
I speak it,
this is the land,
the land.
Megan M. Garr
#6. The only thing that I'd rather own than Windows is English, because then I could charge you two hundred and forty-nine dollars for the right to speak it.
Scott McNealy
#7. I find it very strange doing voiceover stuff, because you find you have to enunciate and make stupid faces in order for the point to make sense, because it's playing against the deadpan Simpson face. If you're just speaking in the regular way you speak, it will sound really boring.
Emily Blunt
#8. If I'm serious, yes, I'd like to have done what Shakespeare did ... to act and write. You learn so much from acting. One of our great writers, Alan Bennett, does both supremely well. When I write a story, I tend to speak it aloud as I'm writing it.
Michael Morpurgo
#9. Foolish is my happiness, and foolish things will it speak: it is still too young - so have patience with it!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#10. Maybe it's okay to not feel strong, to carry an unspoken broken. And . . . to speak it?
Ann Voskamp
#11. The truth you speak doth lack some gentleness
And time to speak it in. You rub the sore
When you should bring the plaster.
William Shakespeare
#12. Archer reddened to the temples but dared not move or speak: it was as if her words had been some rare butterfly that the least motion might drive off on startled wings, but that might gather a flock if it were left undisturbed.
Edith Wharton
#14. When success is one thought away, think it.
When success is one word away, speak it.
When success is one deed away, perform it.
When success is one step away, take it.
When success is one moment away, seize it.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#15. You think you can avoid [pain,] but you actually can't. If you do, you just get sicker, or you feel more pain. But if you can speak it, if you can write it, if you can paint it, it is very healing.
Alice Walker
#16. Now everyone has a license to speak, it's a question of who gets heard.
Aaron Swartz
#17. She was a strange, unsettled planet that had had once sustained life. She was a language that I had thought I almost understood even though I couldn't speak it. She hadn't always been this way. She used to wear high knee socks and short shorts and tube tops, and travel everywhere on roller skates.
Miriam Toews
#18. Antonio Bolivar Salvador has an incredible story because he's one of the last Ocaina people left. The Ocaina people are - and the Ocaina language is basically about to disappear in this generation. You know, there are very few people that speak it. And he's one of them.
Ciro Guerra
#19. 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
#20. For those of us who write, it is necessary to scrutinize not only the truth of what we speak, but the truth of that language by which we speak it.
Audre Lorde
#21. I nodded, not trusting myself to speak. It's always like that. You think you've blown something off and then you say it out loud and suddenly you're all choked up and pathetic.
Kyra Davis
#22. What is the source of our first suffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak ... it was born in the moments when we accumulated silent things within us.
Gaston Bachelard
#23. Everyone know - or at least, was probably told as a child - that you can make a wish on a shooting star. Not everyone knows that the only way to be sure it will come ture is to speak it aloud before the star disappears, and this is a nearly imposssible fet to manage.
Kate Milford
#24. Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
Clarence Darrow
#25. Often when I thought I joked, I told the truth, afraid to speak it except in jest.
Lucy Freeman
#26. We live in our language like blind men walking on the edge of an abyss. This language is laden with future catastrophes. The day will come when it will turn against those who speak it.
Gershom Scholem
#27. A man's body and his mind, with the utmost reverence to both I speak it, are exactly like a jerkin and a jerkin's lining; rumple the one, you rumple the other.
Laurence Sterne
#28. My French is still good. That's a beautiful language and I'm happy to speak it.
Famke Janssen
#29. For me, there's nothing sexier than a woman who can argue me into the ground and outsmart me ... a woman who knows her own mind and isn't afraid to speak it.
J. Michael Straczynski
#30. If they [the dead] should speak, it would be found that in matters of opinion no departed person was exactly what he had passed for in life. They would realise, deep down, that they, and whole nations along with them, are not really what they seem to be-and never can be.
Mark Twain
#32. If you have any questions, your PDA can port into the Henry Hudson information system and use the AI interface to assist you; just use your stylus to write the question or speak it into your PDA's microphone.
John Scalzi
#33. Doesn't matter what you believe in. Do you think things will stop or change because you've forgotten what the bogeyman looks like? Maybe that's what pissed it off, so to speak. It doesn't like being forgotten. So it decided to shake things up a little.
Jeyn Roberts
#34. The fact that we do not speak it but sing it only expresses the fact that our spoken words are inadequate to express what we want to say, that the burden of our song goes far beyond all human words.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#35. Was there ever a name more full of purpose than Chicago's? ... spoken as Chicagoans themselves speak it, with a bit of a spit to give heft to its slither, it is gloriously onomatopoetic.
Jan Morris
#36. Can emotional love be reborn? You bet! The key is to learn the primary love language of your spouse and choose to speak it.
Gary Chapman
#37. Many autistic people have this ability to learn weird foreign languages, and I think I've heard of autistic Americans who have been obsessed [with] Icelandic and learned it and speak it fluently, and I've seen it done in interviews on television.
Jon Gnarr
#38. If parents don't want to hear the truth, children learn not to speak it.
Nikki Sex
#39. A well-trained diplomat is supposed to write French, for example, like an angel, but to speak it with the peculiar gutlessness of a Geneva nancy-boy.
Geoffrey Household
#40. When someone cares ... it is easier to speak, it is easier to listen, it is easier to play, it is easier to work. When someone cares it is easier to laugh.
Susan Polis Schutz
#41. Cicero called Aristotle a river of flowing gold, and said of Plato's Dialogues, that if Jupiter were to speak, it would be in language like theirs.
Plutarch
#43. Catalan language is one of the most complete and perfect expressions that I know from the point of view regarding language, I not only read it since many years ago, but I understand it. Moreover, I speak it intimately too.
Jose Maria Aznar
#44. A poem is never a put-up job, so to speak. It begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It is never a thought to begin with.
Robert Frost
#45. We had nothing to say to each other; and I was conscious that not only my remarks but my presence was criticized. They wished for the truth, and doubted whether a woman could speak it or be it. I thought this courageous of them; but unsympathetic. I had to remember that one is not full grown at 21.
Virginia Woolf
#46. Love is a four letter word if you speak it or write it down, but it becomes powerful once you feel it and live in it.
The Prolific Penman
#47. The spirit within each human being is a small fragment of the Divine and Eternal, and if we give it the opportunity to speak, it will do so - but only when we keep our engagement to dismiss everyday difficulties, be quiet, and listen.
Faith Baldwin
#48. If you say the word amnesty - the 'A-word,' so to speak - it's DOA. If there's even a hint of amnesty in my district, it's dead on arrival.
Randy Weber
#49. For a moment, I debated whether I should tell someone about the words I'd started writing down, but I couldn't. In a way, I felt ashamed, even though my writing was the one thing that whispered okayness in my ear. I didn't speak it, to anyone.
Markus Zusak
#50. One can pass on knowledge but not wisdom. One can find wisdom, one can live it, one can be supported by it, one can work wonders with it, but one cannot speak it or teach it.
Hermann Hesse
#51. Suicide is unspeakable, and to speak it is somehow to bring it into a human, imaginable sphere, even if only in the moment of speaking. The need to tell is both a need to tell oneself and a need to be heard ... Telling and being heard are the first steps toward reconnection.
Victoria Alexander
#53. That's what I am. I warn people. Whenever I see and I feel things in my heart, I speak it.
RZA
#54. I do here speak it before the court. I look that the Lord should deliver me by his providence.
Anne Hutchinson
#56. And when I can't speak it, I write it down. I wish I was different. Wish I was taller, smarter, could talk out loud the way I write things down. I wish I didn't always feel like I was on the outside, looking in like a Peeping Tom.
Jacqueline Woodson
#57. I'm very, very Spanish. I have fat cheeks on both ends. I'm sitting on my Spanish part. And it's my heart, the way I am, the way I speak. It has nothing to do with the way I look.
Cristina Saralegui
#58. When nobody speaks your name, or even knows it, you, knowing it, must be the first to speak it.
Marlon Riggs
#59. For my part, I may speak it to my shame,
I have a truant been to chivalry;
And so I hear he doth account me too.
William Shakespeare
#60. Poetry is music for the human voice. Until you actually speak it or someone speaks it, it has not come into its own.
Maya Angelou
#61. Speak the language of the company you are in; speak it purely, and unlarded with any other.
Lord Chesterfield
#62. You do speak." It came out as an accusation.
"When there's someone around worth speaking to.
Shana Abe
#63. Every language is a temple, in which the soul of those who speak it is enshrined.
Christina Sunley
#64. To be a role model of the kingdom priority is for your lifestyle to speak it
Sunday Adelaja
#65. She didn't want him to speak, she was suddenly not even sure he *meant* to speak. It occurred to her, strangely, that he might sing.
"Don't." Her command was sharp.
He didn't
Marie Rutkoski
#66. The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it.
George Orwell
#67. If truth is a value it is because it is true and not because it is brave to speak it.
W. Somerset Maugham
#68. What a pity, I reflected, that honesty in human relations is so rarely possible. We are compelled to approach, circle and retreat as though performing the steps of a complicated dance, neither trusting the appearance of truth not daring to speak it.
Victoria Clayton
#69. He who knows the truth and does not speak it is a miserable coward.
Julius Streicher
#70. 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
#71. The voice you hear when you read to yourself
is the clearest voice: you speak it
speaking to you.
Thomas Lux
#72. I speak Spanish to my children and they speak it better than me.
Geraldo Rivera
#73. The great arbiters of language are the women who speak it in the presence of children ... What the women pass on to the next generation is "right" and what they do not bother to pass on to their children sooner or later becomes "wrong.
Charlton Laird
#74. If you can allow colour to breathe, to occupy its own space, to play its own game in its unstable way, it's wanton behaviour, so to speak. It is promiscuous like nothing.
Bridget Riley
#75. HOSTESS. Oh, nonsense! She speaks English perfectly.
NEPOMMUCK. Too perfectly. Can you shew me any English woman who speaks English as it should be spoken? Only foreigners who have been taught to speak it speak it well.
George Bernard Shaw
#76. I'm a writer to the bone. I love this language you and I read, write and speak. It's called English. And I'm seriously doubting that it's known to some of the unseen people who write the news.
Ann Medlock
#77. American actors who voice animated movies are so brilliant at it, because by the nature of American speak, it's full of energy and full of commitment. And as a British actor, we have to kind of learn that.
Helen Mirren
#78. To write," Marguerite Duras remarked, "is also not to speak. It is to keep silent. It is to howl noiselessly.
Terry Tempest Williams
#79. Speak the truth.
Speak it loud and often, calmly but insistently,
and speak it, as the Quakers say, to power.
Material accumulation is not the purpose of human existence.
All growth is not good.
The environment is a necessity, not a luxury.
There is such a thing as enough.
Donella Meadows
#80. Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound.
Peace Pilgrim
#81. My daughter took Latin for three years; she still can't speak it.
Trey Gowdy
#82. Each time you think something good, speak it. Never rob someone of the blessings of an unspoken treasure.
Craig Groeschel
#83. Listen, my body is attracted to your body but when you speak it makes my brain angry.
Mindy Kaling
#84. If she tried to speak, it would all come out: Her pain, her fear. Her anger. Her tears. And then her efforts to be strong for the boy would have been for naught. So she kept it in, a dam against a raging river.
James Dashner
#85. Why do we not hear the truth? Because we do not speak it.
Publilius Syrus
#86. It is your decision what kind of person you will be, how you will respond to the challenges you face. Keep your promises, forgo your grudges, apologize when necessary, speak your love, and speak it again.
David A. Goodman
#87. Welsh is my mother tongue, and my children speak it. If you come and live in this community you'll work out pretty quickly that it's beneficial to learn the language, because if you're going to the pub or a cafe you need to be a part of the local life.
Bryn Terfel
#88. I'm too diplomatic. I tend to edit my mind before I speak - it can be incredibly draining.
Erin O'Connor
#89. My work is very controlled. I leave nothing to chance. Chance comes afterward ... Making a film is like cooking a pot au feu. You choose the best carrots, the best potatoes the best meat, etc., and you throw all that together - but if there's no soul, so to speak, it won't yield much.
Philippe Claudel
#90. The fact that my dad was never around gave me a lot of determination. It really set this fire full of fuel, so to speak. It didn't matter what anybody was telling me, how many times I got rejected, because it was never as bad as being rejected by your own father.
DJ Ashba
#91. I used to go to a Gaelic class on a Saturday morning, but I never felt myself that I could speak it properly.
Johann Lamont
#92. Do you know how, when you are on the verge of a breakdown, the world pounds in your ears; a rush of blood, of consequence? Do you now how it feels when the truth cuts your tongue to ribbons, and still you have to speak it?
Jodi Picoult
#93. Italian was my first foreign language. I speak it better than English.
Iman
#94. It is one of those moments where there is so much to say that there is nothing to say, no adequate words, anyway, to speak it all.
Deb Caletti
#95. The upside to anger? Getting it out of your system. You got to express your anger. Then you have room for more positive things. If I hold something in a long time, and then I speak it, it's amazing how the light shines so much brighter.
Reba McEntire
#96. I Will Rise One Day
I will rise one day and speak it
I, the Kurd, will rise one day
and speak it
I, the Amazigh, your voice
will rise one day
I, the Arab you know
will rise one day
and speak it:
They've gone now, Saladin
Najwan Darwish
#97. The condition of truth is to allow suffering to speak, it means then that if you have a prophetic sensibility, you are committed to loving others and if you love others, you hate injustice.
Cornel West
#98. When everyone at school is speaking one language, and a lot of your classmates' parents also speak it, and you go home and see that your community is different -there is a sense of shame attached to that. It really takes growing up to treasure the specialness of being different.
Sonia Sotomayor
#99. I need music. It's like my heartbeat, so to speak. It keeps me going no matter what's going on - bad games, press, whatever!
LeBron James
#100. Intentionally, or unintentionally, Kat had spoken with her eyes; tenderly and lovingly conveying a message to Freya that her tongue wouldn't let her speak. It was glaringly obvious they both felt it. The words were not important. The pauses, gazes, and drawn out breaths were what mattered.
Kiki Archer
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