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"Not hear it? --yes, I hear it, and have heard it. Long --long --long --many minutes, many hours, many days, have I heard it --yet I dared not --oh, pity me, miserable wretch that I am! --I dared not --I dared not speak! We have put her living in the tomb!"
"Public speaking? I speak to myself on the street!"
"Mountain gorses, do ye teach us . . . . That the wisest word man reaches Is the humblest he can speak?"
"Books are men of higher stature, and the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear."
"On the film where I didn't get along with the director, I just decided to not speak to him."
"A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it."
"The better the writers the less they will speak about what they have written themselves."
"To the fool, he who speaks wisdom will sound foolish."
"Time will discover everything to posterity; it is a babbler, and speaks even when no question is put."
"The eyes of this dead lady speak to me For here was love, was not to be drowned out. And here desire, not to be kissed away. The eyes of this dead lady speak to me."
"Germans don't speak in a German accent, they just speak German."
"That was the best of all. To speak the truth and be attended."
"I would prefer to just continue to speak about truth and to speak about what makes sense."
"Speak and speed: the close mouth catches no flies."
"Everyone is ready to speak ill of a stranger."
"Those who speak largely of the human condition are usually those most exempt from its oppressions - whether of sex, race, or servitude."
"God's mouth knows not how to speak falsehood, but he brings to pass every word."
"I let the performance speak for itself."
"Xenophanes speaks thus:-And no man knows distinctly anything,And no man ever will."
"He speaks English, Spanish, and he's bilingual too."
