Increasingly, corporate executives who don’t speak Japanese are coming into Japan. Unlike their predecessors, they expect their employees to be able to communicate in English. – Rebecca MacKinnon
After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language? – Russell Hoban
Artists speak the truth to the public without fear of retribution or damage to their careers. – Ron Silver
I unfortunately don’t speak French, but my wife is now fluent in English, which really reflects rather badly on me. – Sean Connery
Be slow to speak, and only after having first listened quietly, so that you may understand the meaning, leanings, and wishes of those who do speak. Thus you will better know when to speak and when to be silent. – Saint Ignatius
There are so many ideas that you just come up with on a day-to-day basis when you’re a writer that it’s very difficult to want to go back to an old fling, so to speak. – Pierce Brown
The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human beings can do that. – Richard Rorty
My accent was horrible. In Mexico, nobody says, ‘You speak English with a good accent.’ You either speak English, or you don’t: As long as you can communicate, no one cares. – Salma Hayek
I was shy when I was a kid, I was very shy, but now I think I’ve improved a lot. I can speak OK with the media and with the people. My English is still bad but I feel a little bit better now than before. – Rafael Nadal
Why do the President and Vice-President constantly change the subject when asked to explain why things are going so badly in Iraq? The answer is simple. They have been consistently wrong about Iraq, and the results speak for themselves. – Patrick Leahy
Seriously, these days I tend to shut up in terms of external analysis and DO try to let things speak for themselves, while still trying to get some depth into them. – Peter Hammill
I have family in Italy that my mother keeps in contact with, but I don’t because I don’t speak Italian. – Pauly D
I’m excited that I get to do what I love, and I’m benefiting through projects that speak to me. – Octavia Spencer
At acting school people didn’t speak like me. It was all received pronunciation – ‘ow now brown cow.’ – Ray Winstone
I think the main thing was that the character couldn’t speak in regular language, so he had to be mimed. – Peter Mayhew
It is precisely our job as Catholics to speak the truth as plainly and precisely as we can. – Sargent Shriver
I’d love to create my own stuff. I’ve always written stuff, but it would be nice to have my hand a little deeper in the clay, so to speak. – Reece Thompson
I’m not one of those authors who claims to hear voices in my head or ‘let the characters speak through me,’ whatever that might mean. – Robin Wasserman
Kids don’t like what they don’t understand, and judo was always my social outlet. I always felt really socially awkward, and I couldn’t speak very well when I was younger. When I was doing judo, it was something that I could understand and someplace where I felt that I belonged and fit in. – Ronda Rousey
Man does not speak because he thinks; he thinks because he speaks. Or rather, speaking is no different than thinking: to speak is to think. – Octavio Paz
I still have an accent. But when I return to Prague, I speak the language yet do not know what they are talking about. – Peter Sis
It is easy to overlook the importance of the young in underdeveloped countries. It is the natural course for nations, and diplomats, and those who publish newspapers, to speak to the established order. Seeking out the young requires a conscious effort. – Robert Kennedy
I actually speak fluent German. And I live in Vienna, and I’m married to a Viennese woman. – Peter Morgan
