It is only the young and callow and ignorant that admire rashness. Think before you speak. Know your subject. – Cass Gilbert
You know, even growing up going to school, I had teachers that were against bilingual teaching. I never understood that. My parents always had me speak Spanish first knowing I was going to speak English in school. – Emily Rios
I do not speak Hebrew, but I understand that it has no word for ‘history.’ The closest word for it is memory. – David Miliband
I don’t understand why the accent you speak in has to indicate what level of intellect you have. – Paloma Faith
However, anyone to whom this happens should not leave his room upon awakening, should speak to no-one, but remain alone and sober until everything comes back to him, and he recalls the dream. – Paracelsus
It’s a problem sometimes when you speak to journalists. They quote you, and then they read what they wrote, and then they even explain it. It’s dangerous. – Ehud Olmert
Back in 2005, the Anthony Nolan Trust could have asked me just to speak out about the lack of ethnic minority donors on the bone marrow register, but that would have meant nothing if I wasn’t prepared to join up myself. – David Harewood
All my mom’s side speaks Spanish. I speak to my grandparents in Spanish. Slowly. And they’re patient with me! But I do speak with them in Spanish and carry on conversations with them. – David Archuleta
God transforms, so to speak, this air into words, into various sounds. He makes you understand these various sounds through the modifications by which you are affected. – Nicolas Malebranche
Nobody told Don Henley or me that we were going to make it as solo artists, but I can speak for Don when I say that we are both really happy now that the band is not together. – Glenn Frey
If you don’t care about the lapel or the buttons or the fit, then you are doing a disservice to the consumer. We’re all inside the tunnel, speaking the language of business, but we need to speak the language of customers. – Mickey Drexler
You have to be you. You can’t be anybody else. If you speak loudly, and people tell you to speak quietly, you can do it for a little bit, but loud people are loud, and people who are not, are not. – Mario Testino
I am the way I am. If you like me because I’m glamorous, so be it. If you like me, because I speak well or I have a brain and opinion, so be it. – Malaika Arora Khan
If your souls were not immortal, and you in danger of losing them, I would not thus speak unto you; but the love of your souls constrains me to speak: methinks this would constrain me to speak unto you forever. – George Whitefield
I lay in the bed at the hospital and said, ‘let’s see what I have left.’ And I could see, I could speak, I could think, I could read. I simply tabulated my blessings, and that gave me a start. – Dale Evans
I prefer to speak of ‘interdimensionals’ rather than ‘extraterrestrials’ because the latter has connotations of ‘little green men’ and all the other cliche responses. Nor does it tell the full story. – David Icke
Baseball is this intense subculture that actually doesn’t speak very much for the larger culture. – Michael Lewis
It’s quite a job, so to speak, when you can really be with your child for 21 out of 24 hours. – Natalie MacMaster
Don’t speak ill of your predecessors or successors. You didn’t walk in their shoes. – Donald Rumsfeld
When I pray, I pray believing that God will speak to me and give me an answer to that prayer. That’s what a calling is. If I pray, a calling means that I feel like I have a sense from God. – Michele Bachmann
Working with actors really depends on the actor. Most of the directors I’ve worked with don’t really know how to speak to actors, actually; some of the best directors don’t. – Martin Donovan