Speak To Me Quotes

#1. Speak to me ... be eloquent, be brilliant for me. Improvise! Rhapsodize! ... I ask for cream and you give me milk and water ... Please gather your dreams together into words. - Roxanne, Cyrano de Bergerac

Edmond Rostand

#2. 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.

Ilona Andrews

#3. My heart is burning a hole in my chest and every time you speak to me, it keeps sinking, and I'm left with nothing but ashes. I wish she were talking to me, because the more she speaks to me, the more my heart flutters like a rising phoenix.
-Karen Quan and Jarod Kintz

Karen Quan

#4. The portieres were drawn across the French windows now, veiling the stars outside - that were there nevertheless. ("Speak To Me Of Death")

Cornell Woolrich

#5. The thing that happens remarkably often is that the people who are writing a dissertation believe they need to speak to me in order to do their dissertation. They need to interview me.

Tom Stoppard

#6. My parents were both Spanish-speakers and they used to speak to me and my siblings in Spanish and we'd answer them in English.

America Ferrera

#7. I go out every day. When I get depressed at the office, I go out, and as soon as I'm on the street and see people, I feel better. But I never go out with a preconceived idea. I let the street speak to me.

Bill Cunningham

#8. Before you speak to me about your religion, first show it to me in how you treat other people. Before you tell me how much you love your God, show me in how much you love all His children.

Cory Booker

#9. How glad I am to be able to roam in the wood and thicket, among trees and flowers and rocks ... in the country, every tree seems to speak to me, saying, "Holy! Holy", in the woods, there is enchantment which expresses all things.

Ludwig Van Beethoven

#10. The eyes of this dead lady speak to me
For here was love, was not to be drowned out.
And here desire, not to be kissed away.
The eyes of this dead lady speak to me.

Ezra Pound

#11. I just love mermaids. I was a mermaid in my past life. I just feel it when I go in the sea. I just feel a connection there between me, and the water, and the fish - they speak to me - and the shells - they ring out to me.

Ella Henderson

#12. Dogs are dim creatures, do not speak to me of their good sense
have you ever heard of a team of tomcats hauling a sled across the frozen wastes?

John Banville

#13. Nature's voice and Nature's beauty
God's soothing and purifying angels of the soul
speak to me most tenderly and most happily, at such times as these.

Wilkie Collins

#14. Why do you speak to me of the stones? It is only the arch that matters to me.

Kublai Khan

#15. I have sympathy for anyone who finds consolation anywhere we can. And many people do find it in religious tradition as it has been. I mean, I love much of that tradition. But somehow, that just didn't speak to me in the way that it does to some.

Elaine Pagels

#16. I was everything I was ever asked to be, and as my reward my life was burned to ash. Do not speak to me of easing my pain. My pain is all I have left. Do not speak to me of being a Shadowhunter. I am not one of them. I refuse to be.

Cassandra Clare

#17. Deeds, not words shall speak to me.

John William Fletcher

#18. I hate it hen people I love refuse to speak to me.

Chris Lynch

#19. Speak to me, Jacob, do not play the tyrant.
Speak to me.

Maria McCann

#20. Every human being is trying to say something to others. Trying to cry out I am alive, notice me! Speak to me! Confirm that I am important, that I matter!!

Marion D. Hanks

#21. I am not in my gallery and neither do I hold your sigil. Will you speak to me?

Neil Gaiman

#22. The night before, Paramedic (in Training) Lindsey Lee Wells had diagnosed him with moderate contusions and "sprained balls" after an exhaustive search of medical Web sites. She diagnosed TOC as suffering from 'I'm-an-asshole-and-Lindsey's-never-going-to-speak-to-me-again-itis'.

John Green

#23. I don't seek the counsel of God. God doesn't speak to me on what I should or shouldn't do.

Gary Johnson

#24. I am not magnanimous enough to like people who speak to me without seeming to see me.

George Eliot

#25. I try to do the things that speak to me in one way or another, and sometimes I'm even drastic.

Mark Ruffalo

#26. I said to the almond tree, 'Sister, speak to me of God.' And the almond tree blossomed.

Nikos Kazantzakis

#27. My nerves are bad to-night. Yes, bad. Stay with me.
'Speak to me. Why do you never speak? Speak.
'What are you thinking of? What thinking? What?
'I never know what you are thinking. Think.

T. S. Eliot

#28. And my mother caught wind of this. She never had really tried to guide my career or really had any say in my life as an adult, but this was the one time she said she would never speak to me again if I quit acting.

Mark Ruffalo

#29. I'll admit it, the grunge trend doesn't really speak to me. I get why other people like it, but it's just not my style. Don't get me wrong, I love layering, but I like it when it is done with a little more polish and sophistication.

Nina Garcia

#30. When I listen to songs, I can smell a rat. I like songs that speak to me with some deeper truth.

Mike Dirnt

#31. See how weak prose is ... Presently I shall go to a bar and there one or two poets will speak to me and I to them and we will try to destroy each other or attract each other and nothing will happen because we will be speaking in prose.

Jack Spicer

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

Leo Tolstoy

#33. I need to find those projects more often: the ones that really, really speak to me. I do better work in those situations and have a better time.

Andre Holland

#34. I seldom ate out, both for reasons of economy and because I feared someone might try to speak to me.

Jordan L. Hawk

#35. I want to continually play characters that speak to me, but also are different than what I've just done.

Santino Fontana

#36. God turned to speak to me
(Don't anybody laugh);
God found I wasn't there
At least not over half.

Robert Frost

#37. I desire that your conjectures should not reach beyond your creative will. Could you create a god? Then do not speak to me of any gods.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#38. Tchotchka. Amorta. Heart of my heart. Speak to me.

Audrey Niffenegger

#39. I have only slipped away into the next room, I am I and you are you. Whatever we were to each other, that we still are. Call me by my familiar name. Speak to me in the easy way which you always used ... Play, smile, think of me ... All is well.

Henry Scott Holland

#40. I've turned down good directors before because I knew the part didn't speak to me and I've worked with less talented directors before because the part I had such passion for.

Ethan Hawke

#41. Now, I am a mixer. I can't help it. It's my nature. I like men. I like the taste of their shoes, the smell of their legs, the sound of their voices. It may be weak of me, but a man has only to speak to me, and a sort of thrill goes down my spine and sets my tail wagging.

P.G. Wodehouse

#42. I've always liked texts that you immediately understand. I suppose the playwrights who really speak to me are Edward Bond, Joe Orton and Harold Pinter. I've been in six different Pinter productions - I love the clarity of his language. He has this way of using words - there's a thrill to them.

Kenneth Cranham

#43. I find the subject of childhood fascinating. I explored this subject in Speak to me of love and I am curious about portraying the often painful transition into the adult world.

Sophie Marceau

#44. He advocated that all who follow Jesus are priests, not just the official clergy. Much of what he said made sense, as did his kind manner. But why was he here now? Had this persecuted recluse emerged just to speak to me?

David Holdsworth

#45. I wouldn't serve a God who wouldn't speak to me.

George Foreman

Davis Miller

#46. Don't touch me! Don't question me! Don't speak to me! Stay with me!

Samuel Beckett

#47. He sounded absolutely miserable. Are you ever going to speak to me?

Maggie Stiefvater

#48. From RIVER
My body is filled with sand. The heavy grains flow from my eyes and seek somewhere to fall.
Speak to me friends. Tell me I am free to go now, for I need to sit alone in the sun on the river bank, juggling pebbles.

Jay Woodman

#49. They are all so beautiful,' she said.
He looked down at her. 'Not half so beautiful as you are,' he said. 'Nor do they speak to me, nor touch me. Even Fourpaws will not touch me. Beauty, will you marry me?

Robin McKinley

#50. When I was in meditation, God began to speak to me, and God said, 'Roland, I have enough preachers. I need people where you are in your positions. When you are on radio, when you are on television, you speak into more people in the five minutes than some preachers speak to in an entire year.'

Roland Martin

#51. I want knowledge. Not belief. Not surmise. But knowledge. I want God to put out His hand, show His face, speak to me.

Ingmar Bergman

#52. After reading some of my stories, I once had a friend say to me, "I'd love to spend five minutes in your head to see what's going on in there." I warned them, "If you spent five seconds in my mind you'd probably run out screaming and never speak to me again.

Mark W. Boyer

#53. You speak to me in riddles, you speak to me in rhymes, my body aches to breathe your breath, your word keeps me alive.

Sarah McLachlan

#54. They [my characters]speak to me all the time! In fact some of them never shut up!

Michael Scott

#55. In GENESIS, my camera allowed nature to speak to me. And it was my privilege to listen.

Sebastiao Salgado

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

Arthur Conan Doyle

#57. One thing that helps to stretch me is to listen to other preacher's sermons. Every year, I will listen to at least ten other preachers, both to hear God speak to me, and also to evaluate their preaching to see what I can learn and how I can improve my own preaching.

Adam Hamilton

#58. This show has been a major revitalization of my family life and personal life. It gave my family an avenue to speak to me honestly.

Willie Aames

#59. O God my Truth, make me one with You in eternal love. Often I become weary with reading and hearing many things. You are all that I want and desire. Let all teachers be mute and all creation keep silence before You. Speak to me, You, and You alone.

Thomas A Kempis

#60. The music takes over the words and makes them speak to me in another language.

Roger Scruton

#61. Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?

Walt Whitman

#62. I speak to you. You speak to me. Is that fragile?

Muriel Rukeyser

#63. How else would God speak to me, if not through my imagination?

Joan Of Arc

#64. Photographs speak to me, and I obey.

Ruth Bernhard

#65. I don't like it when bratty, privileged old white guys speak to me like I am their mouthy niece.

Amy Poehler

#66. Gradually, the anxiety gives way to contemplation, and I start to listen to my soul. It has been longing to speak to me, but I'm always too busy.

Paulo Coelho

#67. Speak to me as to thy thinking
As thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of thoughts
The worst of words ...

William Shakespeare

#68. I've been in situations like in Tokyo where people sang my song word for word and then when the music stopped, they couldn't speak to me. I've seen the music break the language barrier.

Curtis Jackson

#69. Because I am really interested in gardening, I do really interesting plants, not even always flowers. And because I have grown them, I really know them like friends. I paint everything from exotic orchids to rosehips growing wild in a hedge. They just have to speak to me.

Emma Tennant

#70. Speak to me of the dark gifts. I use them. I'm gentleman death in silk and lace, come to put out the candle.

Anne Rice

#71. The stones here speak to me, and I know their mute language. Also, they seem deeply to feel what I think. So a broken column of the old Roman times, an old tower of Lombardy, a weather-beaten Gothic piece of a pillar understands me well. But I am a ruin myself, wandering among ruins.

Heinrich Heine

#72. Necklace. The parchment curled, blackened, and took flame. Theon was aghast. "Have you gone mad?" His father laid a stinging backhand across his cheek. "Mind your tongue. You are not in Winterfell now, and I am not Robb the Boy, that you should speak to me so. I am the Greyjoy, Lord Reaper of Pyke,

George R R Martin

#73. Speak to me, Rosa. Look this way just once, over here Rosa, where I am watching.

John Fante

#74. It never ceases to amaze me the lengths that some people will go to to try and speak to me or meet me.

David Ginola

#75. Do not speak to me of martyrdom, of men who die to be remembered on some parish day. I don't believe in dying though, I too shall die. And violets like castanets will echo me. SONIA SANCHEZ

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#76. In my mind these two instruments speak to me in different ways, and the solo stuff seems to be easier to do on the soprano.

Evan Parker

#77. Sometimes the art pieces I gravitate toward speak to me in terms of narrative, at other times they speak to me in terms of mood.

Claudia Rankine

#78. "Ghost of the Future," he exclaimed, "I fear you more than any spectre I have seen. But as I know your purpose is to do me good, and as I hope to live to be another man from what I was, I am prepared to bear you company, and do it with a thankful heart. Will you not speak to me?"

Charles Dickens

#79. You speak to me, in your own fashion, of a strange psychology which is able to reconcile the wonders of a master craftsmanship with aberrations due to unfathomable stupidity.

Jean-Henri Fabre

#80. Have a care how you speak to me, Imp. Doubtless he meant to sound threatening, but that absurd wisp of a mustache ruined the effect.

George R R Martin

#81. So why don't you tell him you're sorry?" Gaby suggested.
"Uh ... because he probably never wants to speak to me again?"
"How do you know? Do you have a fifth sense too?"
Scarlett sighed. "No. And I think that's sixth sense."
"No, I don't see dead people. It's different.

Lauren Conrad

#82. I'm trying to shut up and let my angels speak to me and tell me what I'm supposed to do.

Patrick Swayze

#83. Whether it is television or film, the character on the page has to speak to me.

Yvonne Strahovski

#84. O,speak to me no more;these words like daggers enter my ears.(a fancy way of saying SHUT UP!)"
- William Shakespeare "hamlet

William Shakespeare

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

Ilona Andrews

#86. I hate it when I get mad at myself because it's impossible to turn on my heel and walk away in a huff and refuse to speak to me again. I've tried it plenty of times, believe me.

Gary Reilly

#87. I suspect she must speak without emotion or otherwise entirely lose the self-control that is required to speak to me at all.

Dean Koontz

#88. The question I am most often asked is how do I find my ideas? The answer is I don't. Ideas find me. A character in history will suddenly step right out of the past and demand a book. Generally, people don't bother to speak to me unless there's a good chance that I'll take them on.

Jean Fritz

#89. When I pray, I pray believing that God will speak to me and give me an answer to that prayer. That's what a calling is. If I pray, a calling means that I feel like I have a sense from God.

Michele Bachmann

#90. Once I study up on them and the case, I always feel closer to the victims. That closeness drives me to find them or their killers. As if the dead speak to me from within the pages of the case files.

J.R. Rain

#91. I cannot bring myself to vote for a woman who has been voice-trained to speak to me as though my dog has just died.

Keith Waterhouse

#92. But why will God not speak to me? ... I think when God is silent, He wants us to prove in our hearts that we are willing to follow Him no matter the cost. If all answers were crystal-clear, how could we show our devotion to Him?

Jennifer Beckstrand

#93. Whether it's eight o'clock in the morning or eight o'clock at night, I always try to greet others before they have a chance to speak to me.

Zig Ziglar

#94. As worried as I was that you'd never speak to me again ... I think it's worse that you're indifferent.

Jamie McGuire

#95. I developed a definition - which I think becomes less and less accurate as poetry moves into the world - that poetry was a way of speaking to the world, but fiction was a way to get the world to speak to me.

Grace Paley

#96. I profoundly believe in - and teach - the proposition that photography is inherently a fiction-making process. Don't speak to me of the document; I don't really believe in it particularly now. A picture is not the world, but a new thing.

Tod Papageorge

#97. Music is a means of spreading the good word and spreading positivity and productivity. Those things speak to me.

CeeLo Green

#98. You dare speak to me in such an insolent manner?'
'Stop talking like you're two hundred years old. You're sixteen, just like me.

Michelle Rowen

#99. I have a few pieces that I got for my birthdays or that I bought for myself: I acquire things that speak to me and put them on my wall. When I see things I like, I just know.

Dasha Zhukova

#100. You like rock?
Little boy, I'm not your friend. I'm not your Dark-Hunter and I'm not your friggin' date. You only speak to me when I ask you a question. Otherwise you keep your mouth shut, your eyes off me, and you might live long enough to get me to the French Quarter. (Zarek)

Sherrilyn Kenyon