Quotes of: Strictly-speaking Keyword

A theatre, a literature, an artistic expression that does not speak for its own time has no relevance.

Dario Fo

If I've been here a long time, I think: I must go to London and speak to someone or see a bus.

Julian Clary

I don't know how to speak to celebrities. Every time I talk to Alan Menken, I say something stupid and I have to apologize.

Kara Lindsay

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Arthur Balfour

It's become my brand in a way, you know, speaking the truth even though it was not politically correct.

Christine Lagarde

I make one pledge above all others - to seek and speak the truth with all the resources of mind and spirit I command.

George McGovern

Gracchus: The Senate is the people, sire. Chosen from among the people, to speak for the people.

Gladiator

Guido: If you speak my name, I vanish. What am I? Silence.

Life Is Beautiful

It troubles me that people speak about writing for money as ugly and distasteful.

Joyce Maynard

Nature hath given not only to the highest, but also to the inferior, classes of the people of this nation, a boldness and confidence in speaking and answering, even in the presence of their princes and chieftains.

Giraldus Cambrensis

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

Benjamin Franklin

We believe the currently one cannot speak of a revolutionary situation, just as there is no concrete possibilities of an immediate and comprehensive assumption of power by the people.

Joe Slovo

When you have a person in power who punishes people for speaking their mind, it's truly dangerous.

Tim Robbins

Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.

Allen Ginsberg

I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it. It will always be too simple to be discussed in assemblies.

Boris Pasternak

My father had wanted to name me for Dylan Thomas. He had seen him speak on one of those drunken poetry tours he did.

Dylan Walsh

He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.

Carl Sandburg

Sports is like rock 'n' roll. Both are dominant cultural forces, both speak an international language, and both are all about emotions.

Phil Knight

Out of five hundred who speak glibly of love, not one can spell the first letter of his name.

Marie de France

Dreiser... I love... and almost wouldn't speak to anyone who ever attacked him.

Marguerite Young