When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.

Signs offer a way to speak, yet keep the room perfectly silent.

There’s the dual challenge of wanting to speak from an authentic place, and then being able to be honest about it. Even in the most mannered art, I think that’s what people value, is a...

Speak less but act more.

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.

Dream on it, think on it, ink on it, speak on it… then proceed to bring on it. Fulfillment is ordered to find you. Shine time!

For real, some of my favorite music is Mexican. It’s something about the bassline and the drumming. I can’t even speak Spanish, but that’s probably why I like it so much.

When we speak the word ‘life,’ it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

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...

My mother-in-law got so angry at me she vowed she’d never speak to me again, and I smiled and gave thanks for the little miracle God worked in my life.

Hearts In MeIf I look to the world with hearts in my eyesThen surely I’ll be intrigued and inspired.If I touch the world with hearts in my handsThen surely I’ll learn how to understand.If I...

I was so naive I didn’t even know about agents. I telephoned the William Morris agency and asked to speak to Mr. Morris. I expected Bill Morris to be waiting for my call.

Over the years, I’ve trained myself to speak using the same language I would use if I were typing: meaning using full sentences in the way that paragraphs and scenes are arranged.

I don’t like to talk much, even when people speak bad about me. Inside me, I say, ‘Why do they have to think of me that way?’ But I know how I am. My objective...

I can only speak for myself, but when I was growing up in Memphis – and having the Martin Luther King holiday and the moment of pause on April 4th – he was just a...

My mum will not speak above a low whisper in public because she doesn’t want to draw attention to herself.

Trees are Earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

Kindness is the language we all can speak, even the deaf can hear it and the blind can see it…

I went to Brown to be a French professor, and I didn’t know what I was doing except that I loved French. When I got to Paris and I could speak French, I know how...

Dramatic experience is not logical; it may be subdued to the kind of coherence that we indicate when we speak, in criticism, of form.

Either I’ve always spoken to her from the heart in times like this, or I never have and I don’t know what it means.

Your brand is your personal lawyer… It defends and speaks for you even in your absence. Keep calm and maintain a good brand!

I’ve got a quiet voice. I think it’s because as a child I didn’t speak very much. I used to put my fingers in my ears to feel the silence, which was like a lovely...

When you wish to talk to someone, talk to Jesus, He loves to hear you speak.

I like to speak on matters which matter to human beings, and almost everything matters to human beings.

Clearly the Secretary of Defense, my boss, would like nothing better than to get Osama bin Laden and to get… to ensure the complete defeat of al-Qaida, because we know that al-Qaida is planning operations...

Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.

I speak of the old Japan, because out of the ashes of the old Japan there has risen a new Japan.

Nowadays, anyone who cannot speak English and is incapable of using the Internet is regarded as backward.

I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.

Every few words you speak, every little help you offer and every small advice you give mass up tiny miracles that can change someone’s life forever!

Actions speak louder than words, in fact. When we don’t take action, we foster the mistaken reality of our old identity.

Silence is expansive, filling up a whole room in seconds, like a balloon filled with awkwardness. It’s amazing how saying nothing can be so different from having nothing to say.

I would say it’s important for scientists to speak out when they can and when they can be listened to.

The sea is the vast reservoir of Nature. The globe began with sea, so to speak; and who knows if it will not end with it?

Growing up in Oklahoma the way I did, and being raised the way I was raised by my parents, gave me such a strong foundation to go out into the world and fly, so to...

It has been noted that actions speak louder than words. Truth is, I have found that during many situations in life, words are just noise… and actions are the ONLY things that speak.

If you don’t know the question, you are not ready for the answer.

The idea of ‘talking white,’ a lot of people grew up around that, just the idea that if you speak with proper diction and come off as educated that it’s not black and that it’s...

I like tuna when there’s a definite streak of deep pink in the middle, medium rare so to speak, and it comes out best when it’s not cut too thick.

I fill my life with speech, but not with people who are truly listening.

What hurts you so much that you would do this?” Listen to the answer and try to understand what is valid for them. They may have been fighting for your attention, but no one thinks...

When I was young I used to listen to other people and to try and understand what they thought and where they were coming from. I listened and didn’t speak.

I grew up in northern New Jersey – the banlieue of New York – and I now live in Brooklyn. I am separated from my parents by about 50 miles, but really there is almost...

I’ve been water-boarded, and I speak from experience, and it’s torture.

In fiction, plenty do the job of conveying information, rousing suspense, painting characters, enabling them to speak. But only certain sentences breathe and shift about, like live matter in soil.

All I insist on, and nothing else, is that you should show the whole world that you are not afraid. Be silent, if you choose; but when it is necessary, speak—and speak in such a...

Speak it into existence and your words, through your desires, will bring it into fruition.

Like, even when I speak, I think I speak the same way I write. I kind of see it a certain way, and it leads me to write it exactly how I’m seeing it.

I am certain that I speak on behalf of my entire nation when I say: September 11th we are all Americans – in grief, as in defiance.