Speak

Famous quotes containing the word speak:

“For the only way one can speak of nothing is to speak of it as though it were something, just as the only way one can speak of God is to speak of him as though he were a man.”
—Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)

“I do not speak with any fondness but the language of coolest history, when I say that Boston commands attention as the town which was appointed in the destiny of nations to lead the civilization of North America.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)