All Quotes

Spanish is my second language. When I started, I was doing interviews in Spanish and had to catch up.
‐‐ Prince Royce

Spanking and verbal criticism have become, to many parents, more important tools of child rearing than approval.
‐‐ Phil Donahue

Spanx are amazing. Thank you to the inventor of that.
‐‐ Vanessa Lachey

Spare a thought for the poor introverts among us. In a world of party animals and glad-handers, they're the ones who stand by the punch bowl. In a world of mixers and pub crawls, they prefer to stay home with a book. Everywhere around them, cell phones ring and e-mails chime and they just want a little quiet.
‐‐ Jeffrey Kluger

Spare all I have, and take my life.
‐‐ George Farquhar

Spare me the carefully thought out accessorising that is supposed to look casually thrown on, while in actuality, hours have been spent on the picking and choosing of said jewellery, scarves, etc. Unless you are Keith Richards and can absolutely pull it off, less is more.
‐‐ Emma Ishta

Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which makes death a hideous show.
‐‐ Matthew Arnold

Spare me this sanctimony about politeness, please. There are millions of people in this country who hate the very word 'Thatcher' and 'Thatcherism,' which continues until this day.
‐‐ George Galloway

Spare me through your mercy, do not punish me through your justice.
‐‐ Anselm of Canterbury

Spare no expense to save money on this one.
‐‐ Samuel Goldwyn

'Sparkle' fell into my lap. I had heard a little bit about it, that it was being redone in early 2011. I was just kind of like, 'Oh, that would be really cool,' and not really thinking too much about it, and then it came through my agency. I read it, I fell in love with the script and I went in to audition.
‐‐ Jordin Sparks

Sparks is a sporting charity that puts on golf tournaments for sick children, and my animal charities include Oldham Cats and Feline Care, a big cat charity close to me in Norfolk. I'm also a Freemason and the money they raise for charity is phenomenal.
‐‐ Rick Wakeman

Sparky Anderson taught me this a long time ago: 'There's three ways you can treat a person. You can pat 'em on the butt, you can kick 'em in the butt, or you can leave 'em alone.'
‐‐ Pete Rose

Sparky Lyle threw me a slider, and it wound up in the seats. We won, and it was a memorable moment.
‐‐ Richie Allen

Speak for yourself and from yourself, or be silent.
‐‐ George Henry Lewes

Speak from your heart, not your head. You speak from your head, you can wind up getting yourself in a lot of crap. You speak from your heart, I think you're pretty safe.
‐‐ Jake Roberts

Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.
‐‐ Benjamin Franklin

Speak less but act more.
‐‐ Jose Maria Aznar

Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.
‐‐ George Herbert

Speak of change, and the world is in alarm. And yet where do we not see change?
‐‐ Frances Wright

Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.
‐‐ Alfred North Whitehead

Speak slowly, Michael. He is an honourable man.
‐‐ Arthur Cohn

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
‐‐ Theodore Roosevelt

Speak the truth, and all things alive or brute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there, do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.
‐‐ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.
‐‐ Confucius

Speak to any editor and ask them what they turned down, and they'll have long lists of books.
‐‐ Jasper Fforde

Speak to Him often of your business, your plans, your troubles, your fears - of everything that concerns you.
‐‐ Alphonsus Liguori

Speak up! We live in a democracy. We all need to make sure our voices are heard and our opinions are known.
‐‐ Bill Lipinski

Speak up. You have to project! If people can't hear you, it doesn't matter what you say.
‐‐ Freeman A. Hrabowski III

Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.
‐‐ Laurence J. Peter

Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes.
‐‐ Maggie Smith

Speaker Boehner has said many times that the House of Representatives is the closest institution to the people, and he recognizes that by empowering the members to have direct input into the process.
‐‐ Tom Graves

Speaker Boehner is doing a great job.
‐‐ Phil Gingrey

Speaker Newt Gingrich has appointed a task force, which I'm on, and over the next couple months the task force is going to try to come up with legislation that does what we're all trying to do. I feel pretty good about the members that are on the task force.
‐‐ Charlie Norwood

Speaker Pelosi says unemployment benefits are economic stimulus. Those are bare-bones benefits.
‐‐ Alan Nunnelee

Speakers are not supposed to waste time on platitudes, but the capacity of this generation for ignoring the obvious and concentrating on the negative and the obscure is immense.
‐‐ Arthur Hays Sulzberger

Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
‐‐ Dale Carnegie

Speaking and writing English perfectly should not be a privilege. To those who try to politicize this matter, I tell them now, do not mess with the future of our children.
‐‐ Luis Fortuno

Speaking as a biologist, I think women are less aggressive than men, and they play a larger role in the early education of the young and helping them overcome their genetic heirloom.
‐‐ Christian de Duve

Speaking as a black person, welfare is the worst thing that's ever happened to us.
‐‐ Charles Evers

Speaking as a builder, if you start something, you must have a vision of the thing which arises from your instinct about preserving and enhancing what is there... If you're working correctly, the feeling doesn't wander about.
‐‐ Christopher Alexander

Speaking as a Democrat, all my life battling for what I conceived to be Democracy, and what I conceived to be right, I am yet an American above Democracy.
‐‐ Richard Parks Bland

Speaking as a father, there is no rulebook, and you don't know how to do it. You just do the best you can.
‐‐ Greg Rucka

Speaking as a mixed-race woman, there aren't many historical stories about people like me.
‐‐ Gugu Mbatha-Raw

Speaking as a writer, it would be difficult to find an event in American history more dramatic and riveting than the Civil War.
‐‐ David Zabel

Speaking as somebody with three sisters and a very largely female Muslim family, there is not a single woman I know in my family or in their friends who would have accepted the wearing of a veil.
‐‐ Salman Rushdie

Speaking as someone who didn't go through the U.K. school system, with all the culinary baggage that entails, I am inordinately fond of custard in any shape or form.
‐‐ Yotam Ottolenghi

Speaking as someone who's played a lot of video games, and at the end of the video game all you have is a memory, after woodworking you get this piece of furniture.
‐‐ Thomas Middleditch

Speaking as the child of divorce, I have to say that one of the most disconcerting findings in 'The Longevity Project' focused on divorce: On average, grown children of divorced parents died almost five years earlier than children from intact families.
‐‐ Katie Hafner