It’s become easier to speak up for myself.
No matter what your cultural sophistication or what language you speak, everyone can understand images.
Be able to correctly pronounce the words you would like to speak and have excellent spoken grammar.
When I was in high school, there was no safe haven, there was no outlet for you to speak your mind.
Instead of sounding pretentious, phony, or repetitive, I’d rather not speak.
I had a weird accent. Dutch people speak American English, and my parents were Jamaican, with their own broken English.
Those films that really speak to the primal fear that we, as human beings, have about the unknown have always intrigued me. That’s the really scary thing, not the slasher, macabre movies. It’s the ones that deal with the inner fear: the unknown realms and the mysticisms that are scary.
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
Bragging about yourself violates norms of modesty and politeness – and if you were really competent, your work would speak for itself.
The Internet is a free and open platform. Everyone has the right to speak. However, compliance with the law is the bottom line that no one should violate.
Coming home, we stopped for a bite to eat and ran into a confused waitress. Had a heart-rending time trying to speak the Words of Life to her, and as I think of all this country now, many just as confused, and more so, I realized that the 39th Street bus is as much a mission field as Africa ever was.
On issues relating to taxes, you don’t always speak with one voice.
You don’t want your credibility banana to turn brown, but you do want to speak out about what you believe in.
The most important problems we face are complex, and require sustained attention. But we don’t speak in terms of nuance or complexity. Is that by accident? It’s because our minds have been entrained to expect shorter and shorter bite-sized bits.
If you don’t speak out now when it matters, when would it matter for you to speak out?
I feel that no one should be ashamed or have fear or doubt within themselves when they speak about the roots or Africa wherein I and I originate from. It’s like an individual who tries to disown himself, and to me, it is a form of defeat by disowning yourself.
I speak not for myself but for those without voice… those who have fought for their rights… their right to live in peace, their right to be treated with dignity, their right to equality of opportunity, their right to be educated.
Before I speak, I have something important to say.
I get up every morning and say, ‘Father, give me strength today, not strength so I can lift 500 pounds, but give me strength, Lord, so when I speak, my words might motivate, might inspire somebody, Lord, when they see me, let them see you. When they hear me, Lord, let them hear you. In your holy name I pray.’
I speak to you only as an American who happens to be an American Negro and one who is proud of that heritage. We ask for nothing special. We ask only that we be permitted to compete on an even basis, and if we are not worthy, then the competition shall, per se, eliminate us.
Speak up. You have to project! If people can’t hear you, it doesn’t matter what you say.
My career and my stats, they all speak for itself so to say that I’ve got anything to prove to people, to say ‘well, look, I can play, I’m not just a big guy,’ that really is not my driving force in life.
Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
Let’s not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can’t have high standards without good discipline.
Girls need to learn that they’re allowed to say no and to speak up.
The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!
The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.
My biggest struggle was probably having to move from the Dominican to the United States to go to high school. Moving to Michigan, the weather, the language, I didn’t speak English at all. That adjustment for me was difficult at the beginning.
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
But a lot of my training can be done in Aston – a lot of the hard work, so to speak. But a new atmosphere, a new place, and it’s good for me because I didn’t want to get stuck in one spot, so coming home is good, back and forth, you know, where my roots are.
It has always been my understanding that the brave men and women who fought and died for our country did so to ensure that we could live in a fair and free society, which includes the right to speak out in protest.
English is English, no matter what accent you speak it in.
I can speak a little German, a little Spanish, and I was a psych major, so I’m good at listening to people’s problems.
If someone says, ‘Democracy is a sham, those people don’t speak for me… the system’s rigged,’ you say, ‘Vote.’ Someone says, ‘I was making a statement by not voting,’ and then you say, ‘Well I can’t hear it.’
My father was born and raised in Havana, Cuba. His family is from Spain. My father never taught me how to speak Spanish when I was little. That’s very disappointing to me. I’m still planning on learning it on my own. I really want to travel to Spain and immerse myself in the culture and learn it on my own.
If you spend 72 hours in a place you’ve never been, talking to people whose language you don’t speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don’t understand, and you come back as the world’s biggest know-it-all, you’re a reporter. Either that or you’re President Obama.
Here’s my advice to my brown friends: The next time you’re on an airplane in the U.S., just speak your mother tongue. That way, no one knows what you’re saying. Life goes on.
My buildings will be my legacy… they will speak for me long after I’m gone.
When I speak in English, my expressions become different. My attitude, too. I’m not sure why, but there really is a difference. My hands move differently when I speak English.
You won’t find me in a romantic comedy. Those movies don’t speak to me. People don’t come to talk to me about those scripts, because they probably think I’m this dark, twisted, miserable person.
Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes.
I do not speak through my characters; it’s not a ventriloquist act.
As for dream roles, they usually just speak to you. I just crave complex characters.
When I speak it is in order to be heard.
As a follower of Jesus, I am called to work for justice and reconciliation, and to be an advocate for those who cannot speak for themselves. I plan to focus my future work on human rights and religious freedom – both domestic and international – as well as matters of the culture and the American family.
I can’t speak for them, of course, but I believe that most economists would accept the view that, while you sometimes can make a score by sheer luck, you can’t do it constantly, unless you’re willing to put the resources in.
I should be on Broadway. You have to sing, you have to dance, you have to speak well, and I’m good at all of those!
I speak to my mum and dad about the club, and my uncle and all my mates are big Leeds fans as well. They’re on the up, if you like. It’s a better situation than it was when they were in League One not so long ago.
It is only the young and callow and ignorant that admire rashness. Think before you speak. Know your subject.
I want to position myself as a great singer/songwriter in Korea, then jump off that into different markets. South-east Asia, China, Japan – I’ve done nothing even though I speak four languages – English, Korean, Spanish, and a little bit of Mandarin.
But I studied art in Belgium from the age of 17 to 18, and I learned French when I was there. Very reluctantly so. I didn’t do a very good job. For the first six months I was very depressed and couldn’t speak to anyone, and then it kinda hits you.
Don’t be part of the spectacle; be truthful about what you care about and speak from the heart.
It does not require many words to speak the truth.
Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
I consider myself very fortunate. I mean, I think there’s that old saying, ‘Where there’s a will, there’s a way,’ and I just have such a passion for jazz music and playing the piano that I just find a way to make it work, so to speak. Fortunately, I have so far.
When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
If I have to speak in public, I am terrified.
You speak of Lord Byron and me; there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task.
No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions.
Before you speak ask yourself if what you are going to say is true, is kind, is necessary, is helpful. If the answer is no, maybe what you are about to say should be left unsaid.
