Quotes of: Strictly-speaking Keyword

Generally speaking, by the time a subculture such as steampunk secures the attention of major media, resulting in extensive coverage of the craze, said phenomenon is already on the way out.

Paul Di Filippo

It's important for someone like me - who's known Obama for 20 years - to speak the truth. I know him to be a Christian man. I know him to be one of the greatest patriots.

Hill Harper

Nathan: [speaking about Ava's brain] Impulse. Response. Fluid. Imperfect. Patterned. Chaotic.

Ex Machina

Katharine Clifton: You speak so many bloody languages, and you never want to talk.

The English Patient

Jesus: I'm not gonna leave here until you speak to me!

The Last Temptation of Christ

[repeated line] Nina: Corporate accounts payable, Nina speaking. *JUST* a moment.

Office Space

Sarek: Speak your mind, Spock. Spock: That would be unwise. Sarek: What is necessary is never unwise.

Star Trek

You know, frankly speaking, money just doesn't figure largely in my world view.

Norman Finkelstein

Generally speaking, I went through that. I came to a place where I realised what true value was. It wasn't money. Money is a means to achieving an end, but it's not the end.

Robert Redford

You find yourself in the world, without any power, immovable as a rock, stupid, so to speak, as a log of wood.

Nicolas Malebranche

Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the very word poetry scares people. They think of their grade school teachers reciting 'Hiawatha' and they groan.

Erica Jong

When I speak of 'cycles,' I am referring to lengthy intervals of relative homogeneity, if not in the resolving of problems, than at least with respect to the consistency of their capacity to productively irritate.

Brian Ferneyhough

I could speak Spanish fluently growing up, but I'm so out of practice, and I have such a tremendous respect for songwriting in the Spanish language.

Miguel

I would love to learn other languages, maybe French? My uncle speaks German so maybe also German? Chinese seems to be too difficult.

Rafael Nadal

I'd love to create my own stuff. I've always written stuff, but it would be nice to have my hand a little deeper in the clay, so to speak.

Reece Thompson

Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.

Sigmund Freud

I'm pretty grounded on my own passion - writing books, you know, doing programs, speaking around the country. And I love what I do.

Stedman Graham

Reggae music don't really focus on one thing, you know. If reggae music is speaking about the struggle of people, and the suffering, it don't mean black people. It mean people in general.

Burning Spear

I think that a song, when it works, never mind a piece of long form music, even a song is something that speaks to itself but has a language all of its own, ideally.

Steve Hackett

I started to use music almost like a therapist, where it's like, everything that I don't really dare to say or speak about, I can sing about.

Tove Lo

My day, normally speaking, is: I go the gym in the morning, I go and work for 10 or 12 hours, I have dinner, I go to sleep.

Chris Liddell