Top 444 Speaks Quotes

I have always admired Zab’s skills, and his resume speaks for itself.
Paulie Malignaggi
There is something uniquely American about the motel: It speaks to the transient nature of America itself, one enabled and encouraged by our roads and highways.
Hanya Yanagihara
The Special Olympics motto, ‘Let me win, but if I cannot win, let me be brave in the attempt,’ really speaks to me because it embodies exactly what I have pursued in my life. Really, that’s all any of us can hope for – a chance to be brave and to pursue a dream.
Hannah Teter
Allegri is a coach who speaks a lot.
Douglas Costa
I speak from the heart. Certain people follow lyricists and people that put words on a dictionary together, and this and that. I’m more of a rapper that speaks how I feel. I just tell it how it is.
French Montana
Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.
H. L. Mencken
Great actors can transform, but sometimes there’s just this person who speaks right to the role. When they walk in the room, you know they’re that character. That is something you can’t teach an actor; that’s something that’s luck and chance.
David Leitch
Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
Mark Twain
‘Rather You Than Me’ just speaks for my natural instinct to survive, but it’s also me being a writer, me being a poet – there’s also a beautiful side to ‘Rather You Than Me.’
Rick Ross
All of the biggest technological inventions created by man – the airplane, the automobile, the computer – says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness.
Mark Kennedy
Reggae music is a music of integrity; reggae’s consciousness was built on a message. My music speaks of love, equality and spirituality, and I would hope that one finds this integrity in my music.
Stephen Marley
I speak for myself, my record speaks for itself, and my ability speaks for itself.
Josh Barnett
It isn’t often that the logic behind a policy is so clear. But when it comes to the value of educating girls, the evidence speaks for itself.
Queen Rania of Jordan
Everybody speaks about City having lots of money, but it is not about that. It is about ambition, and I have spoken to Coach Mancini, and he told me, ‘This is the best club for you.’
Edin Dzeko
He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
Quintilian
More than any other art form I know of in America, country music speaks of the true relationship between the American male and the American female… Terrible and impossible.
Sam Shepard
Every time I’ve gotten myself into trouble, it’s because I’m choosing a project based on a long-term career goal as opposed to something that speaks to me at the moment.
Ryan Reynolds
The German language speaks Being, while all the others merely speak of Being.
Martin Heidegger
The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.
Confucius
When affection only speaks, truth is not always there.
Thomas Middleton
Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.
Aphra Behn
I have a long-standing relationship with Autism Speaks. I’ve been supporting them for many, many years now.
Nikki Reed
A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.
H. L. Mencken
Personally, I think the silent films were more effective for L&H, but the sound was of great value in enhancing the effects – dialog eliminated a lot of action & sight gags – I always feel that ‘action’ speaks louder than words.
Stan Laurel
I listen to and I play all kinds of music, and I’m interested in jazz and in bluegrass – I like it all – but Cuban music speaks to me in a certain way.
Andy Garcia
Luckily, many other people tell me how they have had a particular landscape photograph of mine in their office or bedroom for 15 years and it always speaks to them strongly whenever they see it.
Galen Rowell
My brother-in-law is an African-American cop who patrols a New Orleans suburban community. He speaks to me often of his perilous duty.
Mike Espy
I find it really difficult when you make a movie where it is set in Russia and everyone speaks in English. It drives me crazy.
Kevin Macdonald
We need to recognize that the situation in Ferguson speaks to broader challenges that we still face as a nation. The fact is, in too many parts of this country, a deep distrust exists between law enforcement and communities of color. Some of this is the result of the legacy of racial discrimination in this country.
Barack Obama
We can’t get at crime unless we know what language it speaks. Otherwise, we are just suppressing the cough, not curing the disease.
Greg Boyle
I’m kind of down for anything, as long as it’s an amazing script that speaks to me, so I’m just constantly reading and constantly looking.
Peyton List
I want to do work of meaning that speaks to a greater depth of who I am.
Russell Hornsby
My wife’s half-Indian, her father’s from Uganda and she was born in Canada. Her sister speaks French and their family speaks a little Gujarati, and I’m talking about Gujarati from 1940! And just think – Rajpal Yadav in the middle of all this. What a contrast!
Rajpal Yadav
My son has autism, and I founded the government relations department at Autism Speaks.
Elizabeth Emken
My dad was raised Orthodox in Atlanta. He speaks Hebrew. He speaks Yiddish. He married a Jewish woman who is not Orthodox, so I was brought up by two different kinds of Jews.
Alex Borstein
You want to feel that your reader does identify with the characters so that there’s a real entry into the story – that some quality speaks to the individual.
Jill McCorkle
To me, Valentine’s Day is not merely limited to a lover but speaks of universal love.
Dimple Kapadia
I’m asked so many times why I think there aren’t more female instrumentalists in jazz. But I never think about it. And I don’t think it’s been any harder for me to be taken seriously. The music speaks for itself.
Hiromi Uehara
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It’s good to have someone who speaks your language in everyday life, especially for me, who does not speak English so well.
Fabinho
To be censored is one sure way of knowing you have been taken dead seriously. It also speaks to the continuing power of the printed word, almost fifteen hundred years after that amazing invention.
Felice Picano
Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day.
Marguerite Duras
Music speaks to people in a way that breaks down boundaries that words and actions sometimes can’t.
Dan Reynolds
There’s just an incredible amount of loneliness as a mother, all this solitude no one really speaks to.
Catherine Reitman
My track record speaks for itself.
Billy Butler
Like, I just feel like the way a man speaks to a woman – the way that people speak to each other – it’s a respect thing.
Kaitlyn Bristowe
In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable; and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not speak about reality.
Karl Popper
Obviously, talent speaks for itself, so, yeah, you got to go in there, and you got to play well. You got to play your game, but that’s kind of the easy part in some ways.
Sue Bird
It really is true that an orator is simply a good man who speaks well.
George McGovern
Faulkner speaks to us on the questions of race, the challenges of modernity, and modern man’s dilemma in all of its aspects. That he is able to specify among those and bring those themes alive is one of his great gifts. There are so many different kinds of pleasures one gets from encountering those materials.
David Milch
My philanthropy is no relation to anybody else’s. None. My philanthropy and what we do at the foundation speaks for itself and has no relation to anyone’s.
Jon Bon Jovi
It’s important for me who is at the table with me; the moment when everyone speaks to each other and everyone listens. If there’s good food, it’s much better.
Andrea Bocelli
My wife speaks very good French. She said she would miss lots of things in the U.S., but we can’t live there if Trump’s president.
Butch Trucks
I would love to learn other languages, maybe French? My uncle speaks German so maybe also German? Chinese seems to be too difficult.
Rafael Nadal
On telly, there’s been a move towards entertainment – with some very high-powered, fast-moving dramas. Then we have the Internet, where we get our information but it’s all in bite-size pieces. I think the documentary, as a form, actually speaks to what’s missing.
Beeban Kidron
Pre-‘Tokyo Drift,’ I was like: ‘Am I gonna play Yakuza #1 and Chinese Waiter #2 for the rest of my life? Is America even ready for an Asian face that speaks English, that doesn’t do Kung Fu?’
Sung Kang
My brand is a demography-breaker. It speaks to all homemakers and women from all walks of life and all across society.
Sandra Lee
There’s a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer’s will to live.
Don DeLillo
Most of my family speaks fluent Malayalam.
Vidya Vox
The trouble with ghostwriting is that it raises the issue of whether the president is in a state of diminished responsibility for what he says. Does he actually grasp the implications of the words he speaks?
Jonathan Raban
In what purports to be an egalitarian society, the existence of class is the secret about which no one speaks.
John Gregory Dunne
It is love that heals and music is the one thing that speaks to all our souls.
Liz Mitchell
Especially when I’m nervous, my mind is running a mile a minute. My ADHD speaks for me before I can speak for me.
SZA
When you’re younger and you see something that really speaks to you, it’s indelible in a way that’s not the same as when you’re an adult. So I’ll always love reading books and making movies that resonate with young people.
Nina Jacobson
Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something outside himself like, for instance, he can’t find any clean socks.
Jean Kerr
What I find is that when young people find a brand they relate to, that they feel speaks to them, they want it in every format they can get.
Elaine Welteroth