A city is where you can sign a petition, boo the chief justice, fish off a pier, gaze at a hippopotamus, buy a flower at the corner, or get a good hamburger or a bad girl at 4 A.M. A city is where sirens make white streaks of sound in the sky and foghorns speak in dark grays. San Francisco is such a city.
I’m not afraid of being fired, and I’m gonna speak my mind.
Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
When I speak of the fear, intimidation, arrests, and public shaming of intellectuals and religious leaders who dare to speak their minds, and then I tell you that I’m from Saudi Arabia, are you surprised?
I’ve forgotten a lot of things. I’ve forgotten how to play the piano and how to speak Arabic, though I studied it for two years.
Let’s just say that I have a tendency if I am uncomfortable in a situation to speak my mind.
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.
My mother taught me everything I know; how to speak properly, posture, enunciation.
Well, a lot of people within government and big business are nervous of Hip Hop and Hip Hop artists, because they speak their minds. They talk about what they see and what they feel and what they know. They reflect what’s around them.
For me, being a top coach means more than just teaching football. That includes empathy, it means that you can speak to a group, that you can deal with the media – you have to be able to do all of that. I would not describe myself as blind in this regard, but a top coach also includes titles.
There is something about boldness and fearlessness and being free enough to speak what is on one’s mind that warrants freedom.
If I speak my version of Spanish in Spain, they laugh. Same with Mexico. It’s an alien world to me.
Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.
Then they came for me – and there was no one left to speak out for me.
I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment.
As much as I love Twitter, Twitter feuds aren’t going to work. Actually connecting requires true face-to-face time. I believe with all my heart that it’s only after working side by side with another person that you earn the right to speak into that person’s life.
With photography a new language has been created. Now for the first time it is possible to express reality by reality. We can look at an impression as long as we wish, we can delve into it and, so to speak, renew past experiences at will.
It does not mean you’re broken to have depression and anxiety. I would encourage you to speak out. Don’t hold it inside. Talk to friends. Talk to parents. If it’s available, go to a therapist.
Music is a means of spreading the good word and spreading positivity and productivity. Those things speak to me.
Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses.
I don’t think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you’re dead.
I’ve always wanted to be someone with credibility, and I want my food to speak for myself.
Not a day passes over the earth, but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows.
We must leave our comfort zones and speak plainly about the challenges facing urban America with the residents of urban America.
I can only speak from my own personal experience, being behind the camera and in front of it, but every magazine cover you see is completely airbrushed.
No notes. You speak from deep in your heart. It’s easy.
The world has flipped upside-down. It used to be a pyramid of authority; now it’s upside down. The influence actually rests with the mid-level people, who speak peer-to-peer. If they’re for you, you win.
You are a woman: you must never speak what you think; your words must contradict your thoughts, but your actions may contradict your words.
My accent was horrible. In Mexico, nobody says, ‘You speak English with a good accent.’ You either speak English, or you don’t: As long as you can communicate, no one cares.
I want to tell people that they should always try to stay calm and speak good things, have control over food by adopting healthy food habits, eat less food and exercise daily.
I speak French, German, English, and Dutch, and I can say a few words in Spanish – none of these languages have anything to do with Valyrian.
I can’t speak for other artists; every group has a different approach. For us, it will always be important to keep working hard, dancing better, writing better songs, touring, and setting an example.
If an organization values innovation, you can assume it’s safe to speak up with new ideas, leaders will listen, and your voice matters.
If you can speak Spanish, then you can have a stronger connection with the residents of Los Angeles.
I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.
Big stuff and little: learning how to order breakfast in a country where I don’t speak the language and haven’t been before – that’s really satisfying to me. I like that.
I do try to speak of positive things. I still try to, like, present two sides of the story, and I do try to relate to life in a 360 degree and not be one-dimensional. But by all means, manage expectations.
I am thankful that Brooklyn, a community of more than 2.6 million people of which nearly half speak a language other than English at home, stands as a shining example of how immigration and diversity have made us a safer and stronger place to live, work, and experience the American dream.
Audiences I speak to are often openly hostile, and I know my arguments might fall on deaf ears with 99% of the audience.
When I was younger, I wouldn’t speak up as much, but now that I’m a mom, things have changed.
The protestor I think will speak up for the world’s poorest.
When deeds speak, words are nothing.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Do I live as carelessly and worldly as unbelievers while professing to be a follower of Jesus? If so, I am exposing Christianity to ridicule and leading people to speak evil of the holy name by which I am called.
What politicians do is they never get the rhetoric wrong, and the price they pay is they don’t speak the truth as they see it. Now, I will speak truth as I see it, and sometimes I don’t get the rhetoric right. I think that’s a fair trade-off.
When Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed the same-sex marriage bill, my blood was boiling. I had been silent, but that night, Brad and I watched the news and saw all these young people pouring out on Santa Monica Boulevard venting their rage, and I said, ‘I have to speak out.’
In the province of Quebec where I come from, we speak French, and the only cosmopolitan city is Montreal. Every time we tackle the subject of immigration and racial tension, it’s an issue that concerns Montreal.
I don’t view Apple or myself as an activist. What we do is for some things where we think we have deep knowledge, or think we do, or a strong point of view, we’re not shy. We’ll stand up, speak out – even when our voice shakes.
Michael Bates was a very funny actor; he’d served in India, could speak Urdu, and had great comic timing.
You know, I do speak the Queens English. It’s just the wrong Queens that’s all. It’s over the 59th Street Bridge. It’s not over the Atlantic Ocean.
This discourse, and the present frame of my mind, lead me rather to speak to those, who by feeling Satan’s fiery darts, know assuredly that there is a devil.
I want to go to a country where I don’t speak the language. I want to be lost in translation.
It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
Never separate the life you live from the words you speak.
I’d love to meet my ancestors. I’d love to be able to speak to them.
Shakespeare is absolutely big in Africa. I guess he’s big everywhere. Growing up, Shakespeare was the thing. You’d learn monologues and you’d recite them. And just like hip-hop, it made you feel like you knew how to speak English really well. You had a mastery of the English language to some extent.
If you want to underestimate me because I speak like a Mancunian, like the people I grew up with, then so be it at your peril.
I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.
All my children have spoken for themselves since they first learned to speak, and not always with my advance approval, and I expect that to continue in the future.
I am an activist and rapper from Afghanistan, and I use rap to speak out and help end child marriage.
Life is too short. I don’t have time to speak slowly.
I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.
I will let my racquet speak for myself.
