"Now I am silent, hate Up to my neck, Thick, thick. I do not speak."
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"Speak up. Not just tomorrow, but every day."
"I'm excited that I get to do what I love, and I'm benefiting through projects that speak to me."
"Poets have the gift to speak for others, Vasko Popa had the very rare quality of hearing the others."
"Failure, failure is so important, it doesn’t get spoken about enough, we speak about success all the time."
"Failure is so impor - it doesn't get spoken about enough. We speak about success all the time."
"I may be a despicable person, but when Truth speaks through me I am invincible."
"We cannot be speakers who do not listen. But neither can we be listeners who do not speak."
"On their deathbed men will speak true, they say."
"But you speak of Master Gandalf, as if he was in a story that had come to an end.' 'Yes, we do,' said Pippin sadly. 'The story seems to be going on, but I am afraid Gandalf has fallen out of it."
"Speak, or I will put a dint in your hat that even a wizard will find hard to deal with!"
"I'm no good at predicting what will endure with people. I only know what speaks to me."
"That's always been my approach, to expose what's going on and what's not being said. I could go the selfish route, and probably make a whole lot more money, but that's not what it's about, it's about speaking for people who can't speak for themselves."
"I never even dreamt that I'd be in a position to teach other people to speak better."
"My father speaks for himself, through his music."
"Your work speaks for you. Your art defines you."
"Anybody who speaks quietly and shrivels up in company is unbelievably arrogant."
"I don't speak Spanish, I speak a little of Italian but no Spanish."
"To speak of the impotence of power is no longer a witty paradox."
"Oh, don't cough, Ernest. When one is dictating one should speak fluently and not cough. Besides, I don't know how to spell a cough."