I can only speak for myself – there were times when I just wasn’t inspired by creating music. – Common
Every time I create a character, I don’t assume they speak like I do, even if they’re Australian. – Cate Blanchett
As long as my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils, my lips will not speak falsehood, and my tongue will not utter deceit. – The Bible Job 27:3-4
My grandfather once ventured upon publishing a volume of hymns. I never heard anyone speak in their favour or argue that they ought to have been sung in the congregation. In that volume, he promised a second if the first should prove acceptable. We forgive him the first collection because he did not inflict another. – Charles Spurgeon
In a time when it is common for chefs to simply reproduce the innovations of others, the few who speak for themselves through their food become the skilled artists of their time. – Charlie Trotter
People who do not speak our language very well do complain of feeling rebuffed by French people, who can sometimes be impatient, or even intolerant. – Bernard Pivot
Has Jesus saved me? I dare not speak with any hesitation here; I know He has. His Word is true; therefore, I am saved. – Charles Spurgeon
When I sing, it’s different from when I speak in a very interesting way. I think that, when you’re singing, a message is carried in a different way. I don’t know if that emotion needs a melody. – Auli’i Cravalho
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. – Anthony Hamilton
Every so often you read a play and a character just speaks to you – almost seems to speak through you, in fact. – Alan Rickman
The problem is the myths of Area 51 are hard to dispute if no one can speak on the record about what actually happened there. – Annie Jacobsen
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. – Anthony Bourdain
While our nation’s attention is rightly focused on the Middle East, the North Korean threat has grown exponentially, while there seems to be a falling asleep, so to speak, at the switch when it comes to North Korea. – Cory Gardner
So it’s mix and match. Hold your line when you really feel something you’re saying is wonderful and you really want to get this point across and prove it to your partner by just throwing it into the tape and letting it speak for itself. – Art Garfunkel
When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak. – Audre Lorde
I realized how Latina I was, and then also, at the same time, how not Latina enough I was, because I’m born and raised in Los Angeles. I speak Spanish, but I don’t speak perfect Spanish, not like a native speaker. – America Ferrera
Words impress me. If a man can speak eloquently and beautifully to me, I just melt on the floor. – Catherine Zeta-Jones
I do here speak it before the court. I look that the Lord should deliver me by his providence. – Anne Hutchinson
I’d rather let the fiction speak for itself and I don’t want to write fiction that tells people how to feel, and I don’t want to be judgmental in the fiction. – Bret Easton Ellis
I would prefer to just continue to speak about truth and to speak about what makes sense. – Ben Carson
In some ways, Israel has achieved a peace. There are fewer rockets being sent into Sderot, there are no rockets to speak of from the North, there has been very little terrorism from the West Bank. It’s a kind of peace. I hope for a better and more enduring peace. Peace is not an endgame; we will never be completely at peace. – Alan Dershowitz
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. – Cyndi Lauper
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. – Antonin Artaud
