Speak

Famous quotes containing the word speak:

“I speak and the child plays: who can be more serious than we are?”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

“The nature of language may determine what most people say, but I always speak my own meaning.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“I wish to speak with all respect of persons, but sometimes I must pinch myself to keep awake, and preserve the due decorum. They melt so fast into each other, that they are like grass and trees, and it needs an effort to treat them as individuals.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)