I think people should read fairy tales, because we’re hungry for a mythology that will speak to our fears. – Sandra Cisneros
Letting the facts speak for themselves is an immoral principle when we all know that facts and figures can be selected to prove anything. – Patrick Kavanagh
The way I think liberties get eroded is not that all of a sudden you become an Orwellian state, but gradually it becomes harder for people with unpopular views to speak out without being in danger, be it from the state or just from the majority of the people who don’t like them. – Rebecca MacKinnon
Too many jazz pianists limit themselves to a personal style, a trademark, so to speak. They confine themselves to one type of playing. – Oscar Peterson
I was never quiet when I worked at @cnn, when we did dumb stuff. You can’t just take the check & stay quiet. Truth demands a voice: speak up. – Roland Martin
I had read the novel and I had heard David Lean was going to direct it – and it came as a surprise to me because American actors, if given the chance, can do style as well as anybody and speak as well as anybody. – Rod Steiger
It can not be done; it shall not be done! I speak for the great masses of the Mississippi Valley, and those west of it, when I say you shall not do it! – Richard Parks Bland
I try to be as honest about what I see and to speak rather than be silent, especially if it means I can save lives, or serve humanity. – Sandra Cisneros
Well, Australians should speak for the national interests of Australia, and whatever role former Australian prime ministers may have, one of the things you do is speak frankly about the country as you see the country’s best interests, you know? – Paul Keating
If you say the word amnesty – the ‘A-word,’ so to speak – it’s DOA. If there’s even a hint of amnesty in my district, it’s dead on arrival. – Randy Weber
I think it need realness, you should speak on thing that you know about, that you being from, that you experienced or that you been around, you know. I think you need a good hook, good beats and good lyrics. – Obie Trice
It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
With a terrible script you hustle and try to make it better. But with a good script it can be trouble because you rest on your laurels, so to speak, you think it’s going to translate easily. – Robert Downey, Jr.
I had a lot of trouble speaking as a kid. I didn’t really speak in coherent sentences until I was, like, 6 years old. There was a long time where everybody was very worried, because my sisters were so advanced for their age, and I would barely talk. – Ronda Rousey
What really matters is who you are when you step on the field, and I will let my bat and my glove speak for themselves. – Pablo Sandoval
I am now in Gibraltar. It is a large place and there does not seem to be room in this letter, in which to express my feelings about Moors in bare legs and six thousand Red-coats and to hear Englishmen speak again. – Richard H. Davis
I’m probably the most militant person you’ll ever meet and I speak my mind without provocation sometimes. – Octavia Spencer
I long to speak out the intense inspiration that comes to me from the lives of strong women. – Ruth Benedict
For me, when I did ‘Thor,’ they changed my lines at the last minute, and then I had to speak with an English accent – and it was horrifying. I was in front of a crew of 250 people on my first day – never happened to me before. – Rene Russo
I just don’t like big guys who speak cryptically and act like they understand the language better than me. – Robert Downey, Jr.
I try not to be too profane around children or old people. Other than that, that’s how I speak. – Paula Malcomson
I was in the closet, so to speak, until after the fifth year when I was cancer-free. – Richard Roundtree
In the British embassy in Afghanistan in 2008, an embassy of 350 people, there were only three people who could speak Dari, the main language of Afghanistan, at a decent level. And there was not a single Pashto speaker. – Rory Stewart
I feel it is now my duty to speak to young women, to encourage them to have careers and, particularly, careers in science. – Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
It’s not my fault that people don’t know me. I’m going to speak my mind, no matter what the consequences are. – Randy Moss
My dear sisters, whatever your calling, whatever your circumstances, we need your impressions, your insights, and your inspiration. We need you to speak up and speak out in ward and stake councils. – Russell M. Nelson
I want to speak up and tell you that mascara and clothes don’t make you cool, neither do name-brand handbags, but being a leader can. – Renee Olstead
