Spoke Quotes - page 3

I believe art is a wholly formal enterprise, encompassing almost all the tenets that the nineteenth century spoke of as l'art pour l'art, tenets which have made twentieth century's experimentation possible. (What postmodern doesn't?) (Samuel R. Delany)
The lie took form as she spoke, pulling on as many strands of truth as it could reach. View quote
Scott Westerfeld
I spoke at TED Global 2010 about the ways that video games engage the brain, and in particular, the idea of reward structures: how a challenge or task can be broken down and presented to make it as engaging as possible. View quote
Tom Chatfield
It's so nice to be a spoke in the wheel, one that helps to turn, not one that hinders. View quote
Gertrude Bell
In my early writing, all of my characters were exactly the same person. They all spoke the same, made the same types of jokes, reacted the same, etc. I think they were all just me in disguise. View quote
James Dashner
My family kept its history to itself. On the plus side, I didn't have to hear nightmarish stories about the Holocaust, the pogroms, terrible illnesses, painful deaths. My elderly parents never even spoke about their ailments. View quote
Amy Bloom
But look what the Church has done to Jesus during the last two thousand years. What they have made of Him. How they have turned every word He spoke for their own vile ends. Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today. View quote
Carson McCullers
I think secrets often come out. I spoke to a friend who is a therapist and I asked her if there were people who came to her and admitted to doing horrible things and she said, 'More than you know.' View quote
Alice Hoffman
After Zorro, people spoke Spanish to me for ages. I'm Welsh but that movie instantly gave me a new ethnicity. View quote
Catherine Zeta-Jones
I have just returned from the dubbing studio where I spoke into a microphone as Severus Snape for absolutely the last time. View quote
Alan Rickman
In every message she spoke of birds, of flight, of the world away. Even back then, she flew against what was presented to her. I wanted to cling to her wings and soar, no matter how intimidated I was. (Lisa See)
More than this, even in those white men who professed religion we found much inconsistency of conduct. They spoke much of spiritual things, while seeking only the material. View quote
Charles Alexander Eastman
I think Stalin was afraid of Roosevelt. Whenever Roosevelt spoke, he sort of watched him with a certain awe. He was afraid of Roosevelt's influence in the world. View quote
W. Averell Harriman
Mom spent the time that she was supposed to be a kid actully raising children, her younger brother and younger sister. She was tough as nails and did not suffer fools at all. And the truth was she could not afford to. She spoke the truth, bluntly, directly, and without much varnish. I am her son. View quote
Chris Christie
Well, I like how people talk. I like language. You know, Linda Richman spoke in Yiddish. View quote
Mike Myers
The more I do bookstores, the more people come up to me from church groups. I spoke at Pittsburg State College and had 2 or 3 ministers and book groups from a couple of churches. View quote
Anita Diament
In the past, we spoke of poverty, misery only in the south. Now there is a lot of misery, a lot of bad that creates victims in the north as well. This has become manifest: the global system was not made to serve the good of all, but to serve multinational companies. View quote
Ahmed Ben Bella
If I spoke Italian, I'd be in Italy in a minute. I love the food, I love the way people live there. I mean, it really is my idea of paradise. View quote
Bonnie Bedelia
It Might As Well Be Spring... I used to sing that as a young girl in my voice lessons. Then I picked it up again and it spoke to me in a whole new way. View quote
Bernadette Peters
When I was growing up, Forest Park was full of integrated families. It was amazing. One my best friends was Vietnamese. Another one was half-Mexican, half-black. Another one was from Colombia. Another one was born in the U.S., but his mom was from Germany and spoke with a German accent. So we all had multiple identities. View quote
Dinaw Mengestu
There are those who would love each other if once they were to speak to each other; when they spoke they would discover their souls were separated by phantoms and delusions. (Ernest Hello)
My father was the son of immigrants, and he grew up bilingual, but English is what my father taught me and what he spoke to me. America's strength is not our diversity; it is our ability to unite around common principles even when we come from different backgrounds. View quote
Ernest Istook
When you first entered the restaurant, I thought you were handsome... and then, of course, you spoke. View quote
Helen Hunt
When I started, there weren't that many kids doing it in the city, but the in the wave after me there were a lot of them and they actually never spoke to each other. View quote
Kid Koala
In our family, there wasn't anything else besides art. Nothing else in the world existed. My father never spoke about going to a movie or listening to music, other than my mother's singing. View quote
Kiki Smith