I spoke French a bit, and I could speak a bit of this and that, and when you were taught those things by people who couldn’t really do it, you can do some pretty wonderfully, imaginative horrific things to teachers. – Diane Cilento
It’s fashionable to speak about vulnerable populations in medicine and public policy, but it’s harder to find a more vulnerable population than those who are dying. – Nicholas A. Christakis
It’s usually, my people speak to your people and then they speak around each other and trade calls for weeks. – Mary Steenburgen
I said the kidnapping is a crime. I have the right to speak about the crime done against me. They didn’t like me to speak about this crime. So I decided to reveal it to the public. – Mordechai Vanunu
Even the closest relationships that I have I know could potentially fall away. That’s not to speak pessimistically or negatively about those relationships. In a weird way, it’s the opposite. I value them. – Mark Z. Danielewski
People seem to think that you should be willing to speak to them whether they’re jerks or not. – Martha Plimpton
When I was living in Paris in the ’80s, I used to go out with an American model who couldn’t speak French. But suddenly everyone could speak English because he was so cute. – Edmund White
True hearts have eyes and ears, no tongues to speak; they hear and see, and sigh, and then they break. – Edward Dyer
I met Patti LuPone and Elaine Paige in a party. I didn’t speak too much with Patti, but she was lovely with me. – Elena Roger
It’s important for us to certainly cast some Christian actors who can speak to our audience when we market the films, but obviously we don’t discriminate. So our crew and our cast, the beliefs don’t really matter. – David A. R. White
I want to make films and write films, which will happen, I’m just taking a different route right now. I’m a bit of a chameleon with the whole entertainment industry so to speak. – David Boreanaz
I can unite the people of Israel, so I won’t speak about controversial issues, which divide the people. – Dan Shechtman
Our nation’s blood supply is safer than it’s ever been, and it’s getting safer as we speak. – David Satcher
I think you have to go deep into the bag of tricks, so to speak, to try and slow down the quarterback. – Dan Quinn
We throw at female artists this expectation that their work has to speak to the female experience. And if it doesn’t, you’re letting the side down. Throwing this stumbling block in the way of female artists is counterintuitive. – Eleanor Catton
I came to New York when I was 21, 22. I couldn’t speak English. I knew I wanted to go to fashion school. – Francisco Costa
I can’t speak for every American comic, but for me, a great show is its own reward. Comedy is too subjective for awards. – Michael Che
Out of five hundred who speak glibly of love, not one can spell the first letter of his name. – Marie de France
People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom. – Francis Bacon
Sick children, if not too shy to speak, will always express this wish. They invariably prefer a story to be told to them, rather than read to them. – Florence Nightingale
The right I claim is that of every human being to speak what he believes to be the truth to whomever he may meet on his way. – George A. Moore
