The wideness of the horizon has to be inside us, cannot be anywhere but inside us, otherwise what we speak about is geographic distances. – Ella Maillart
I want to see Christian fiction speak to the hard and real issues that tear people’s lives apart. – Francine Rivers
And, actually it was interesting because I had done a lot of traveling in the United States and Canada and Mexico on my motorcycle; and I was really, it was the first time I had really gotten out of the Minnesota area to speak of. – Duane G. Carey
So many stories, and to choose which ones to tell and how to tell them. The words, they will tap me on the shoulder and they will speak to me: ‘Tell me! Tell me!’ The stories choose me. – Eduardo Galeano
It’s hard for women to talk about these things, and for the doctors to really talk about it too, and to even have the knowledge of what’s going on. That’s why I’m doing this and urging women to speak out and talk to their doctors frankly. – Cybill Shepherd
Some languages expand not only your ability to speak to different people but what you’re able to think. – G. Willow Wilson
Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses. – Cesare Lombroso
Trinidadians love speaking their own English; it’s full of poetic forms and can be playful and lyrical and comical. Trinidadians are verbal acrobats, and I love being on the island just to hear the people speak. – Monique Roffey
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. – George Whitefield
In many ways when Jerry Ford pardoned Nixon, in a certain way, he did speak for the country. – Morley Safer
I speak English without an accent, and I speak Spanish without an accent. I really do have the best of both worlds. – Eva Mendes
When running a Ponzi scheme, how does one avoid enormous, unexpected withdrawals – runs on the bank, so to speak – that would pull back the curtain and reveal a little man blowing smoke? One way would be to attract a core of investors who could be counted on to never withdraw more than a small percentage of principal each year. – Mitchell Zuckoff
It’s difficult to speak with beautiful people. No matter how hard you try to pretend otherwise, you still want them to like you. – Douglas Coupland
In Buenos Aires, I have a very close friend who speaks very good English, and she taught me. It was quite difficult because the muscles of your mouth are used to your language, and then when you want to speak another language, they don’t go to the place they need to go to make the sound. – Elena Roger
Those who speak of our culture as dead or dying have a quarrel with life, and I think they cannot understand its terms, but must endlessly repeat the projection of their own desires. – Muriel Rukeyser
I’m trying to shut up and let my angels speak to me and tell me what I’m supposed to do. – Patrick Swayze
I’ve always deplored bad heterosexual values that dictate the minute a marriage is over the former partners no longer speak to each other; only straights could be so cruel and inhuman as to reject totally the person with whom they’ve shared their life for 20 or 30 years. – Edmund White
If one can judge from the letters that I receive, it would seem that there are many thousands of children who would like me to speak or to read to them. – Enid Blyton
When the Revolution triumphed in 1959, our island was a true Yankee colony. The United States had duped and disarmed our Liberation Army. One couldn’t speak of developed agriculture, but of immense plantations exploited on the base of manual and animal labour that in general used neither fertilizers nor machinery. – Fidel Castro
To me, I was right from the beginning, because it’s my right as an American to speak up and question our president, have my point of view, have my opinion, question what I want to question, and say what I want to say about our government. – Natalie Maines
I really want to do the Olympics. Obviously, I can’t let things out of the bag, so to speak. – Mark Roberts
It probably helps that my background is in the sciences and I can speak the scientists’ language. – David Chalmers
