There are Jews who came from 102 countries and speak 81 languages – how do you consolidate them into one nation? This is where I saw my role. – Yitzhak Navon
I could never muster the courage to speak to girls in my college in Pune. Most of them were Parsis and spoke English. I came from a village and could barely converse in English. – Sharad Pawar
I speak of the old Japan, because out of the ashes of the old Japan there has risen a new Japan. – Shigeru Yoshida
I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again. – Wislawa Szymborska
Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb. – Samuel Daniel
I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents. – Tahar Ben Jelloun
We who have the final word can speak softly or angrily. We can seek to challenge and annoy, as we need not stay docile and quiet. – William O. Douglas
It’s great when you have people who will speak passionately and honestly about what they are doing. – Samantha Bee
I speak from a nerd’s perspective because I’ve been watching anime since I was a kid. I grew up on ‘Speed Racer’ and ‘Star Blazers’ and ‘Battle of the Planets,’ and those were some of my first A) cartoons and B) introduction to Japanese couture before I even knew they were Japanese. – Yuri Lowenthal
My worst holiday was in Athens when I was a young drama student at Rada in 1965. I ran out of money. I had my things stolen and I wasn’t able to speak a word of the language. – Stephanie Beacham
Back home, almost everything I did, I did in Hebrew. I went to drama school in Hebrew, my whole career was in Hebrew, and to switch languages was something that was fascinating and more complicated than I expected it to be, even though I’ve been speaking English since I could speak. – Yael Grobglas
Well, I don’t throw things. This particular night I brought one from the floor so to speak, and he ended up getting a cut over his head, and the police came, took him to another side of the hotel, and that was like September 6, 1981. – Tanya Tucker
Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities. – Thomas Sowell
I knew that people disliked me, and there always will be, but that’s the price you pay for being in the limelight, so to speak. – Tyler Hamilton
This show has been a major revitalization of my family life and personal life. It gave my family an avenue to speak to me honestly. – Willie Aames
No matter what your cultural sophistication or what language you speak, everyone can understand images. – Tibor Kalman
I’ve always known what I’ve wanted, but I used to be shy about expressing that in regards to my career. So I’ve become a lioness. If something’s happening that I don’t necessarily feel comfortable about, I will speak my mind. Or if I want to do something, I go for it. – Tia Mowry
Mind you, the Elizabethans had so many words for the female genitals that it is quite hard to speak a sentence of modern English without inadvertently mentioning at least three of them. – Terry Pratchett
The only thing that I’d rather own than Windows is English, because then I could charge you two hundred and forty-nine dollars for the right to speak it. – Scott McNealy
I was chosen for ‘Wolverine’ because there weren’t any other Japanese actresses available who could speak English. With ‘Batman v Superman’ and ‘Hannibal,’ I got the roles as a result of previous work I’d done, not just because of my nationality. – Tao Okamoto
When they are preparing for war, those who rule by force speak most copiously about peace until they have completed the mobilization process. – Stefan Zweig
I grew up speaking Spanish and English. My mother can speak Spanish, English, French and Italian, and she’s pretty good at faking Portuguese. I wish that I spoke more languages than I do. – Sebastian Arcelus
I started to use music almost like a therapist, where it’s like, everything that I don’t really dare to say or speak about, I can sing about. – Tove Lo
Our emotions are often beautiful, but they can also be dangerous. They represent our spontaneity, and seem to speak to us of our freedom. – Tariq Ramadan
I have always been more comfortable with daredevil acts than with the everyday nuances of life. Let me jump out of a plane, speak in front of a roomful of strangers, even trek across Siberia. – Sarah Kay
