Speaking Quotes - page 8

I view the work I've done related to statistics and economics as, roughly speaking, how to do something without having to do everything. (Lars Peter Hansen)
In a way fighting was just like using magic. You said the words, and they altered the universe. By merely speaking you could create damage and pain, cause tears to fall, drive people away, make yourself feel better, make your life worse. View quote
Lev Grossman
I tend to think of the act of photographing, generally speaking, as an adventure. My favorite thing is to go where I've never been. View quote
Diane Arbus
Finally, fighting for gay rights, speaking out in various places and making friends, men and women, was great. View quote
George Weinberg
I never planned to be rich, frankly speaking. I was more interested in being free, and doing things. And money helps. But otherwise I was never that interested in it. View quote
Alexander Lebedev
But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective. View quote
Rowan Atkinson
And it's here and it's ready and we can really revolutionize the way we educate our children with tablet computers, and I'm committed to doing whatever I can to speaking to whomever I can to send this signal - to pound this message home. Now is the time. View quote
LeVar Burton
Law is stable the societies we are speaking of are progressive. The greater or less happiness of a people depends on the degree of promptitude with which the gulf is narrowed. View quote
Henry James Sumner Maine
I studied German at school. I lived in Berlin for two years and had a German girlfriend for five years, so I don't find speaking German particularly difficult. Singing was slightly more difficult. View quote
Martin Gore
The young gentleman is correct," he said. Halt raised an eyebrow. "He may be correct, and he is undoubtedly young. But he's no gentleman." ~Halt and General Sapristi speaking of Will. View quote
John Flanagan
You know, I think what the American people want more than anything else right now is someone who's just going to look them in the eye and tell them the truth, even some truths that they don't like. And - but they have to believe the person's speaking from their heart and are authentic. (Chris Christie)
For the kind of thing that we were showing, the budget was sufficient. As we were speaking of in Haiti, we had not done that before in exactly this form and we had to have costumes for it. View quote
Katherine Dunham
Speaking of ways, pet, by the way, there is such a thing as a tesseract. View quote
Madeleine L'Engle
You confuse not speaking with not listening. View quote
Gregory Maguire
Out here, it's better safe than sorry, because generally speaking, too much of the time sorry means you're dead. View quote
Patricia C. Wrede
Speaking generally, people who are drawn to journalism are interested in what happens from the ground up less than they are from the top down. View quote
Tom Brokaw
Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man. View quote
William Allen White
Practically speaking, your religion is the story you tell about your life. View quote
Andrew Greeley
It is not the intelligent woman v. the ignorant woman; nor the white woman v. the black, the brown, and the red, it is not even the cause of woman v. man. Nay, tis woman's strongest vindication for speaking that the world needs to hear her voice. View quote
Anna Julia Cooper
I know what I want, and I know what needs to be done to make my performance better. So I do these little askings, about the lights and costumes. It's not the diva speaking. It's the artist who knows how it has to be done. View quote
Anna Netrebko
I wanted to be a ballerina so badly. You can be seen and take over the spotlight without speaking. I had a fear of speaking in public back then. (April Bowlby)
But I'm a big, firm believer in speaking everything into existence. View quote
Ashthon Jones
My grandfather came over from Puerto Rico and raised his kids speaking English so that it would be easier for them to assimilate. View quote
Aubrey Plaza
The Holocaust is a central event in many people's lives, but it also has become a metaphor for our century. There cannot be an end to speaking and writing about it. Besides, in Israel, everyone carries a biography deep inside him. View quote
Aharon Appelfeld
It was a pretty fierce rivalry. I'm just speaking for myself, but I think it was general through the clubs. We didn't like them, and they didn't like us. View quote
Bobby Thomson