The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. – Hans Hofmann
We used to speak familiarly of an agent, now do more, who was accustomed to manufacture evidence, and to invent facts in his cases, or at least to alter the aspects of facts to such an extent that they might fairly be viewed as new. – George Combe
If you listen to the way I speak and watch the way I conduct myself – there’s nothing about me that’s rock n’ roll. It’s like, ‘Hello, I’m in a rock n’ roll band’. ‘No, you’re a narc.’ – Henry Rollins
I speak very highly of Jim Thome. Not only is he a great player, but he’s a great individual. – Harmon Killebrew
I try to be careful to not just say it’s a greatest hits show because we’ve also made efforts to keep people up to date so to speak because we continually write and record and put out albums. – Gerry Beckley
Sarah Palin embarrasses herself almost immediately upon opening her mouth to speak or upon moving her fingers to send messages to her dull flock. – Henry Rollins
It’s not like there’s no work in Scotland, but speak to any actor, and they’ll tell you it’s limited. So you have to go to London or Manchester to broaden your horizons. – Greg McHugh
If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things. – Henry David Thoreau
When I lived in India, I’d speak like an Indian to get good prices while shopping. I’m good with accents. – Hannah Simone
It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a demand, a gratuitous letter, so to speak, which has accumulated in me like the waters of a reservoir. – Henry Miller
Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, – for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it – not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation. – Herman Melville
I fear this little episode does not speak very favourably for my business capacity in those early days, for I certainly ought to have made much more than I did by this really important invention. – Henry Bessemer
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. – Gong Li
Regardless of whether you speak the language or are familiar with a culture, the picture should hold up. – Herb Ritts
To be a minister means above all to become powerless, or in more precise terms, to speak with our powerlessness to the condition of powerlessness which is so keenly felt but so seldom expressed by the people of our age. – Henri Nouwen
I did get bullied and I did get picked on and I did have that feeling in my gut of being incredibly self-conscious. I naturally gravitated towards my elders because I didn’t know how to speak or be present with my peers. – Heather Matarazzo
I feel like I was always singing. Since I could speak, I could sing. It came very naturally. In school, I was always singing in choruses and choirs. I always loved to sing; it was something to fun to do. – Gretchen Parlato
All athletes speak about the mental element of athletics, and it usually boils down to the same thing: if you can remove your ego from the game, you can function with much more clarity and you are more likely to succeed. Wouldn’t it be interesting if we all began speaking about the mental element of our lives in this way? – Garth Stein
I think that the president of Iran has the authority wherever which – where – wherever the national interests of the country are involved and, when it is necessary and expedient and required to speak and talk with others in order to promote the rights of its nation, that the president can take that initiative. – Hassan Rouhani
It took me a year to really learn the American lingo. I really feel for people who are coming here and don’t speak English at all. It must be hell. – Helen Reddy
You’re not going to be liked by everybody when you speak the truth. I don’t speak the truth to put people down; I don’t speak the truth to show disrespect. – Hope Solo
You have to really understand how people speak, and you have to reconstruct it… Most pleasure in writing, you know, is in inventing. – Grace Paley
Using a dog as a narrator has limitations and it has advantages. The limitations are that a dog cannot speak. A dog has no thumbs. A dog can’t communicate his thoughts except with gestures. – Garth Stein