Speaking Quotes

[Speaking of computers] But they are useless. They can only give you answers. (Pablo Picasso)
Who you are is speaking so loudly that I can't hear what you're saying. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart. View quote
Jerome
Darling: the popular form of address used in speaking to a member of the opposite sex whose name you cannot at the moment remember. View quote
Oliver Herford
The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is. View quote
Susan Sontag
I think I know it all, relatively speaking. View quote
Gene Simmons
If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money. View quote
John Updike
Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature. View quote
Montesquieu
It is the glory and the good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to minds like mine at least. View quote
Robert Browning
Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous. (David Hume)
I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the place is so beautiful. One almost expects the people to sing instead of speaking. It is all like an opera. View quote
William Butler Yeats
If I had as many love affairs as you've given me credit for, I would now be speaking to you from a jar at the Harvard Medical School. View quote
Frank Sinatra
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. View quote
Octavio Paz
The universe is always speaking to us... sending us little messages, causing coincidences and serendipities,reminding us to stop, to look around, to believe in something else, something more. View quote
Nancy Thayer
Under the Assads, Kurds were forbidden from learning their own language at school, or even from speaking it in the military. The result is a generation of Syrian Kurds, many now in late middle age, who can't write their own language. View quote
Luke Harding
When people talk of the Freedom of Writing, Speaking, or thinking, I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more. View quote
John Adams
Everything in life is speaking in spite of it's apparent silence. View quote
Inayat Khan
[Speaking about women's friendships] If two women go to a bar and they are fighting over men, it makes it much easier for the men. If two women are very close and they act as... it makes it very difficult for the men to pull one over on anybody. View quote
Jennifer Beals
Roughly speaking, rationality is concerned with the selection of preferred behavior alternatives in terms of some system of values, whereby the consequences of behavior can be evaluated. View quote
Herbert Simon
Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory: nothing can come of nothing. (Joshua Reynolds)
Television is of great educational value. It teaches you while still young how to (a) kill, (b) rob, (c) embezzle, (d) shoot, (e) poison, and, generally speaking, (f) how to grow up into a Wild West outlaw or gangster by the time you leave school. View quote
George Mikes
To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, politically speaking, a losing cause with the birth of the modern world, is to experience a kind of straining against reality, a rebellious nonconformity that, again, is rare in America, where children are instructed in the virtues of the system they live under, as though history had achieved a happy ending in American civics. View quote
Mary McCarthy
Genuine good taste consists in saying much in few words, in choosing among our thoughts, in having order and arrangement in what we say, and in speaking with composure. View quote
François Fénelon
Biologically speaking, if something bites you, it is more likely to be female. View quote
Desmond Morris