All Quotes

Speaking English is like tongue-twist for me. I can speak each word perfect, but then you have to string them together like, 'Blah, blah, blah.' That's when I get crazy.
‐‐ Jackie Chan

Speaking for myself, I spend a good ten minutes a day deciding whether or not to read the results of new surveys, and, once I have read them, a further five minutes deciding whether or not to take them seriously.
‐‐ Craig Brown

Speaking for myself, my very integrity as a human being needs to include my freedom to explore who I am both spiritually and sexually. Not just to explore - but to practice.
‐‐ Malcolm Boyd

Speaking for the nation as a whole entails understanding and feeling the pain, as well as understanding the aspiration of the different cultural, social and political make-up of the nation.
‐‐ David Blunkett

Speaking from experience, because I have three daughters, I think it's always important to give your daughter the confidence that she needs so that she won't look elsewhere for approval and feeling love and acceptance.
‐‐ David Charvet

Speaking from my experience as a person involved for a long time in building the European Union, it is important to have patience and efforts to build a community of nations.
‐‐ Giorgio Napolitano

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.
‐‐ Tom Brokaw

Speaking is physically difficult for me.
‐‐ Gabrielle Giffords

Speaking is the one trait in which woman is superior to man. Consider what happens when a couple argues. The man tries to talk to the woman. The stupid fool - he can never win.
‐‐ Harry Harlow

Speaking is what most people work on. They forget the thinking and the breathing and instead try to occupy space with sound.
‐‐ Margaret Heffernan

Speaking of photography, while the Apollo 8 crew shot hundreds of photos, there was one that got everybody's attention: a blue-and-white Earth rising over a gray moonscape.
‐‐ Henry Spencer

Speaking of Twitter, I don't even know if I composed a blog entry in 2009, as I was too busy parceling my every thought into cute 140-character sound bites. I used to only worry about being pithy for a living; now some of my best lines are wasted on a free app!
‐‐ Diablo Cody

Speaking out against rap music is useless, and it's futile. The reality is there's criticism for everything, but Jay-Z is one of the most remarkable artists of our time of any genre, and as a hip-hop artist he carries the weight of that art form with such splendor and grace and genius.
‐‐ Michael Eric Dyson

Speaking out is important for me because everyone should be treated equally.
‐‐ Lance Bass

Speaking personally as a filmmaker, I think encoded in Bond are a series of values about Britain, about the world, about masculinity, about power, about the empire that I don't share. Quite the reverse. Whereas in Bourne, I think encoded is much more scepticism. There's an us and a them, and Bourne is an us, whereas Bond is working for them.
‐‐ Paul Greengrass

Speaking personally, I didn't think 40 would be a big issue, and I don't think I have issues about age, but there are naturally some big questions that come up at that point in your life.
‐‐ Murray Bartlett

Speaking purely from a musical standpoint, I think I am a great performer.
‐‐ Lady Gaga

Speaking the truth gets a little easier each time you do it.
‐‐ Rory Freedman

Speaking to numerous teachers and nurses, I am consistently struck by the sense of mission they have about their work.
‐‐ Charles Kennedy

Speaking up for America has become a lonely ordeal.
‐‐ Maurice Saatchi

Speaking very generally, I find that women are spiritually, emotionally, and often physically stronger than men.
‐‐ Gary Oldman

Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks.
‐‐ Jimmy Breslin

'Special 26' was a raw, real film.
‐‐ Ravi Teja

Special effects are characters. Special effects are essential elements. Just because you can't see them doesn't mean they aren't there.
‐‐ Laurence Fishburne

Special effects movies have taken over the universe. That and scary movies.
‐‐ Jami Gertz

Special emphasis should be laid on this intimate interrelation of general statements about empirical fact with the logical elements and structure of theoretical systems.
‐‐ Talcott Parsons

Special-interest magazines are dangerous places for writers to start out in because the writing quickly falls into a routine and people are likely to find themselves artistically exhausted when they want to work on something of their own.
‐‐ Irwin Shaw

Special interests and opponents have figured out how easy it is to disrupt town halls and get their own message out. The days of the truly free-form town halls may be over.
‐‐ Mark McKinnon

Specialization makes it easy to forget about the filth of the coal-fired power plant that is lighting this pristine computer screen, or the backbreaking labor it took to pick the strawberries for my cereal, or the misery of the hog that lived and died so I could enjoy my bacon.
‐‐ Michael Pollan

Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.
‐‐ Aldous Huxley

Species can be recognized by their morphological characteristics and songs.
‐‐ Peter R. Grant

Species co-evolve with the other species they eat, and very often, a relationship of interdependence develops: I'll feed you if you spread around my genes. A gradual process of mutual adaptation transforms something like an apple or a squash into a nutritious and tasty food for a hungry animal.
‐‐ Michael Pollan

Species conversation is beyond a doubt an issue that truly matters to the American public.
‐‐ Ian Somerhalder

Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design.
‐‐ Kevin Kelly

Specifically, I am concerned about the long-term condition of Social Security. I am committed to ensuring that current beneficiaries and those nearing retirement face no reduction in benefits, while preserving this vital program for future generations.
‐‐ Cliff Stearns

Specifically, in Canada, the First Nations are often overlooked in pop culture or in general, and when things are reported about our First Nations, it's often negative things - about the hardships they face and what-not.
‐‐ Jeff Lemire

Specifically in stand-up, I love jokes. I love short, structured ideas and a punchline.
‐‐ Demetri Martin

Specifically, in the software industry, progress is highly sequential: progress is typically made through a large number of small steps, each building on the previous ones.
‐‐ Eric Maskin

Specifically, my favorite tool in Java is hot code swapping in debug mode, meaning I can edit the code while the game is running and immediately see the results in the running game. This is super great for rapid tweaking.
‐‐ Markus Persson

Specifically, the reservation of sovereignty to the people of the states in matters not governed by federal law is constitutionally defined and permanently enshrined in the 10th Amendment.
‐‐ Dick Thornburgh

Specifically, the U.S. holds strength. Its own context makes it a very competitive country, but I believe that if we recognize how interdependent the U.S. with its neighbors from the North and the South, we are part of NAFTA, a trade agreement.
‐‐ Enrique Pena Nieto

Specifically, we talked about making the character of the prince not so charming, at least in the beginning, and I'm playing around with the preconceptions attached to a character. That's really what intrigued me as well because I thought it would be fun to do it.
‐‐ Hugh Dancy

Specifically with respect to the Inhumans, they are almost a mythological creation in and of themselves - the way they work, the way they operate, the fact that they're royalty - and they've always been involved with a lot of the big cosmos events that Marvel has done.
‐‐ Charles Soule

Specificity is what makes good storytelling, and good storytelling is what makes money, and making money is then what encourages new producers to invest in different stories about Asians.
‐‐ Constance Wu

Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.
‐‐ Robert H. Schuller

Spectators often express disfavor of fair decisions.
‐‐ Helen Wills Moody

Spector is a good guy, but he's a nut. Ha, ha, ha! You know, I love him, but he's unpredictable. He's OK as long as he don't drink.
‐‐ Ike Turner

Spectroscopy can probably answer the question, 'Is there anybody out there?' Are we alone?
‐‐ Garik Israelian

'Spectrum' is in part a disco song. But we play it hard, and it's a real euphoric, wailing tune. It's kind of like a total house anthem, in a way, but it seems to be going down really well. We've got all the grunge kids going mad for disco house raves.
‐‐ Florence Welch