Top 444 Speaks Quotes

My grandfather died when I was 12, but I remember the sorrow of my mother. Even now, she’s an old lady, but when she speaks about her father, she looks young. A love like that is undefeated, you know?
Claire Denis
God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection.
Alfred Adler
When President Obama speaks about raising taxes on the rich, he speaks about high-income employees and small business owners, not entrepreneurs who build big businesses.
Robert Kiyosaki
Man does not speak because he thinks; he thinks because he speaks. Or rather, speaking is no different than thinking: to speak is to think.
Octavio Paz
Literature speaks with everyone individually – it is personal property that stays inside our heads. And nothing speaks to us as forcefully as a book, which expects nothing in return other than that we think and feel.
Herta Muller
The vehemence with which certain critics have chosen not simply to criticize what I’ve written, but to challenge my writing this story at all, speaks of what the book is about: fear of disapproval.
Joyce Maynard
If you want music that speaks to you, that LISTENS to you, you have to go out of your way, which I enjoy actually. I’m constantly on a private-eye kick to find the totally obscure.
Trevor Dunn
On the day of the show, I sit down with someone that speaks very good English and someone who speaks the local language very well and work out what I’m going to say.
Phil Collins
It is said that Obama speaks ‘professorially,’ a fact that understates the quickness and agility of his mind.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Subramaniyam Swami is a very qualified man; whenever he speaks, he speaks something new.
Raza Murad
At its very best, the Western model speaks for itself. It’s the model that put food on the table. It’s the refrigerators. It put a man on the moon.
Dambisa Moyo
When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he

When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire
I think everyone acknowledges Teddy is the person in the Senate who speaks for Ireland.
Jean Kennedy Smith
We have laws against torture. The Constitution says nothing whatever about torture. It speaks of punishment; ‘cruel and unusual’ punishments are forbidden.
Antonin Scalia
Lara Croft is such a strong individual, she’s very driven, she doesn’t need a man, she’s speaks her own mind, and that she’s in control of her own life. It’s a lot of what women want and have.
Jan de Bont
It always trips me out that America, the most powerful and magnificent nation in the history of the world, whose might was built by immigrants from all over the world, only speaks one language.
Cheech Marin
I like to be so good, that no-one can have anything to say about me; my dancing speaks for itself.
Oti Mabuse
‘Dirt Road Diaries,’ in my mind, is a perfect country guy song. It speaks to the hard-working guy, and I’m excited for the fans to hear that one.
Luke Bryan
There is a great deal of cyberpunk that I admire, especially the work of William Gibson which I think is excellent. Somehow he speaks from his own heart and cyber punk is what comes out.
Robert Sheckley
A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men.
Patrick Kavanagh
Any show that speaks to people of color feels the burden to never mess up, never make its characters look bad – to always get it right.
Yvonne Orji
I’m an outgoing girl who speaks well, is well-mannered and also fun.
Vittoria Ceretti
It’s useless to criticize things that people love and something that speaks to them.
Kaui Hart Hemmings
I think the 16 years that I spent in Green Bay speaks for itself.
Brett Favre
It matters whether women sit at the table. No one speaks up for you when you are standing outside with your nose pressed up against the glass. You cannot window-shop for power.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.
Thomas Carlyle
The best music to dance to is my music! Haha! I say anything that speaks to you. I personally enjoy dancing to hip-hop, R&B music, EDM/trap music.
Rotimi
Nothing speaks louder than an evocative photograph that stirs the imagination, tugs at the heart strings and engages the mind.
Mark Carwardine
My mother’s music speaks to me as an oracle.
Selah Louise Marley
I am a woman of the 21st Century who is self-assured and speaks my mind.
Ednita Nazario
Even Echo speaks not on these radiant moors.
Bryan Procter
I like someone who has a strong personality, who speaks boldly and makes people uncomfortable sometimes.
Nikki Tamboli
I can carry a brand. I did it in the UK with an entire brand basically built around me, and my in-ring work speaks for itself.
Pete Dunne
I have a very lively and colourful show. It’s two hours of hits and the music speaks for itself.
Rod Stewart
Anybody who speaks quietly and shrivels up in company is unbelievably arrogant.
Orson Welles
I appreciate actors who work very hard to get at the truth of the character they’re playing. That speaks to me, and I try to protect that process because I value the focus and intention behind it.
Marc Platt
Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.
Andrea Dworkin
We know that when a woman speaks truth to power, there will be attempts to put her down… I’m not going to go anywhere.
Maxine Waters
I just have a belief that when there is a rare script out there that speaks to you, you have to stick with it. You have to.
Heather Matarazzo
In painting, you don’t have to go through a process of opinion; it speaks directly, and either it works, or it doesn’t.
Derek Walcott
As a footballer I think your own history speaks for itself.
Filippo Inzaghi
The annual ‘Forbes’ Billionaires List speaks volumes about the movement and concentration of wealth across industries and geographies.
David Lichtenstein
I'm always drawn toward family drama, and dysfunctional

I’m always drawn toward family drama, and dysfunctional family stories. It speaks to me, in a really profound way, and I think there’s so much to explore within it.
Mike Flanagan
There is great strength in vulnerability, as it takes courage to push through the fear and share one’s true self with others. In music, that vulnerability really speaks to listeners as it connects with their own hearts.
Anoushka Shankar
About 25 years ago, when I was 15, I wrote a song called ‘Indradhanush’, which speaks about the seven colours, equating each with emotions that we as human beings experience.
Amit Trivedi
‘Star Trek’ speaks to some basic human needs: that there is a tomorrow – it’s not all going to be over with a big flash and a bomb; that the human race is improving; that we have things to be proud of as humans.
Gene Roddenberry
He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.
Lao Tzu
Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.
John Dewey
A young man who is here speaks the Panis language, and in many other respects, is preferable.
Zebulon Pike
What President Bush has done speaks more than words about his feeling of compassion and commitment to people.
Thad Cochran
I noticed that what you’re wearing is a representation of yourself and speaks for you before you do.
Fabolous
I’ve worked hard and tried to approach my career with as much honesty and integrity as possible. I’ve also had many blessings along the way and feel very fortunate to have a career that speaks so much to my soul.
Anoushka Shankar
I’m drawn to subversive material and material that speaks to communities and people who tend to be marginalized, and telling those stories in ways that subvert expectations. That’s always been fun for me to play and always been fun for me to write.
Natasha Rothwell
When a president speaks, it’s to multiple audiences.
Dana Perino
Cafe De Flore speaks of love, its joys, its pains and its dramas – to love and to lose. This story upset me, I was upside-down, in the depths of myself.
Vanessa Paradis
My heart seems to heal, so that speaks well for my future.
Alex Trebek
Shakespeare speaks for the human heart but Dickens speaks for the social man and for injustices.
Simon Callow
The government must adopt a rights-based approach that speaks to the needs and aspirations of surrogate mothers, children born out of surrogacy, and all individuals who want access to altruistic surrogacy services.
Kapil Sibal
I hate when I see someone who speaks English speaking to someone who speaks a different language, and they’re screaming as if going louder is going to help the other person understand.
Karamo Brown
The only problem was that I couldn’t communicate with Dario. He speaks Italian and I don’t. We had a translator the whole time. I just felt that something was lost with the go between. He was a delightful man, but I wish we could have spoken the same language.
Kim Hunter
In accordance to the way that Benn speaks, he is not educated. Sure, he’s educated to a certain extent, but under different circumstances he would be a bouncer on some door in the West End and he’d have three kids from three different women… I am a superior person to that. I have finer points.
Chris Eubank Sr.
I think the notion of traditional anchor is fading away – the all-knowing, all-seeing person who speaks from on high. I don’t think the audience really buys that anymore. As a viewer, I know I don’t buy it.
Anderson Cooper
My mother speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, etc. By the same post I had several letters from anxious relatives, telling me that it was my duty to come home and thus ease my mother’s anxiety.
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
It’s a pretty sure thing that the player’s bat is what speaks loudest when it’s contract time, but there are moments when the glove has the last word.
Brooks Robinson
Mother Nature is always speaking. She speaks in a language understood within the peaceful mind of the sincere observer. Leopards, cobras, monkeys, rivers and trees; they all served as my teachers when I lived as a wanderer in the Himalayan foothills.
Radhanath Swami