Man does not speak because he thinks; he thinks because he speaks. Or rather, speaking is no different than thinking: to speak is to think.
Octavio Paz

Many of the Central Asians know Russian, and Ted Levin speaks it fluently. I speak Chinese, but Mongolian is completely different, so we had to have translators.
Yo-Yo Ma

Marriage has a unique place because it speaks of an absolute faithfulness, a covenant between radically different persons, male and female; and so it echoes the absolute covenant of God with his chosen, a covenant between radically different partners.
Rowan D. Williams

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.
Aphra Behn

Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.
Andrea Dworkin

Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not only by means of sounds, it speaks nothing but sound.
Eduard Hanslick

My impression is that American policy speaks not of antagonism but rather partnership.
Gerhard Schroder

My mother speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, etc. By the same post I had several letters from anxious relatives, telling me that it was my duty to come home and thus ease my mother's anxiety.
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

Never explain what you do. It speaks for itself. You only muddle it by talking about it.
Shel Silverstein

Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody.
John Churton Collins

No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn't understand, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but rather at someone who tampers with your own language.
Jacques Derrida

Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have.
Elizabeth Bowen

On the day of the show, I sit down with someone that speaks very good English and someone who speaks the local language very well and work out what I'm going to say.
Phil Collins

One may speak about anything on earth with fire, with enthusiasm, with ecstasy, but one only speaks about oneself with avidity.
Ivan Turgenev

Our theme for this year's festivities, Dreams and Challenges of Asian Pacific Americans, speaks to the many generations of Asian Pacific Americans who worked hard to overcome economic hardship, racism and other barriers in their pursuit of the American dream.
Lucille Roybal-Allard

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.
Plutarch

Past performance speaks a tremendous amount about one's ability and likelihood for success.
Mark Spitz

Pity speaks to grief More sweetly than a band of instruments.
Barry Cornwall

Rock is young music, it is youth oriented. It just speaks for a generation.
Ruben Blades

Shaw is like a train. One just speaks the words and sits in one's place. But Shakespeare is like bathing in the sea - one swims where one wants.
Vivien Leigh