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I had no idea what they were saying in Italian as a child, they spoke too quickly on the radio. But I realized that language was very funny. — Dominic Chianese

If they spoke, it was in whispers — Orhan Pamuk

I went to Istanbul. I spoke to blind people, most of whom had lost their sight suddenly. I asked them to describe the last thing they saw. — Sophie Calle

Americans were most likely good people ... the only thing wrong with them, David thought, was that they spoke English very badly. — Anne Holm

When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted as they fell. — John Dryden

When I went to London, they told me I spoke with a funny accent - English with a Chinese accent. — Jean-Georges Vongerichten

Thomas Jefferson spoke of certain truths as self-evident. He did not say that these truths were self-explanatory or that they were self-operating. — J. Martin Klotsche

They spoke of the crowds that had filled the plaza: the people, always myopic, always easy to fool. — Daniel Alarcon

They spoke in Latin, so that all might understand; but the quotations they flung at each other were Greek and Hebrew, Turkish, Persian. — Dorothy Dunnett

They all spoke kindly of my dead mother, who had been a slave merely in name, but in nature was noble and womanly. — Harriet Jacobs

They spoke truth and a lot of people listened ... that voice, Kurt we miss you. — Michael Stipe

Andrew Stanton spoke next. Andrew is fond of saying that people need to be wrong as fast as they can. — Ed Catmull

The prophets who spoke to their generations for God did not please and conform; they irritated and opposed. — Billy Graham

The theory of the teacher with all these immigrant kids was that if you spoke English loudly enough they would eventually understand. — E.L. Doctorow

somber-looking monks. They sipped a watery soup from wooden spoons. No one spoke. The abbot pointed to a lone table against the far — Eliza Knight

His words had fingers, and as he spoke, they drifted down my body, fondling me and arousing me. — C.D. Reiss

They spoke like caricatures, it was unbearable. — Alice Munro

I was never one to begrudge people their memories. From a child I would listen when they spoke of the past. — Rachel Field

He spoke with a deep clarion power she imagined renegade angels might use, as they called one another to war with God. — Thea Harrison

They tended to give a little start when she spoke, as if the potted plant had tried to join in the conversation. — Liane Moriarty

Such words he spoke, but they are not his words. He was a vulgar, low-minded man, and vile oaths fell continually from his lips. — Jack London

Memory modifications as they spoke. "Oh, and I almost forgot," Fudge had added. "We're — J.K. Rowling

There's a saying," Aeneas said: "Keep an eye on Greeks when they offer gifts." He spoke wryly. "Horses, particularly. — Ursula K. Le Guin

I see dancehall reggae and hip-hop as fused together, When I was a kid, they were the two kinds of music that spoke to me and said 'Move!' — Sean Paul

Over the years, they'd become accomplished at avoiding unpleasant topics. Their burdened demeanors spoke volumes through the silence. — Glenn B Miller

He spoke for an hour on the nonviolent road to independence. The crowd loved it so much they rioted and killed twelve people. — Barbara Kingsolver

It was just that his heart belonged to someone else, and they both knew it. They never spoke of it, but it was true just the same. — Kristan Higgins

Yet they spoke now across a glass-topped dining table as if words were just words, as if their histories were equivalent. — Anthony Doerr

They never spoke out, so they were never heard. Your voice is your identity. If — Rick Riordan

I'd become more adept at being with other people; I'd lowered my expectations of them and learned to let my mind drift into neutral when they spoke. — Sebastian Faulks

They chose me for Lawrence of Arabia because I spoke English, had black hair, black eyes and a moustache. It was all luck. — Omar Sharif

Or perhaps it was that, unbeknownst
to Elena, they were linked by a far
bleaker tie, a tie that spoke of mothers
and blood. — Nalini Singh

If you took away publicists and things and people spoke for themselves, then they'd have to be responsible for their words. — Robert Pattinson

They were strange books. They spoke about mercury, salt, dragons, and kings, and he didn't understand any of it. — Paulo Coelho

He understood the language of the trees. He spoke to the trees and they spoke back to him! — Avijeet Das

Then God spoke to me and said:
People say only good things about Christmas.
If they want to say something bad,
they whisper. — Anne Sexton

It wasn't that Friends thought that the Lord spoke only to them; it was only that they weren't sure other folk listened very often. — Diana Gabaldon

They spoke less and less between them until at last they were silent altogether as is often the way with travelers approaching the end of a journey. — Cormac McCarthy

I thought they spoke Russian in the Ukraine." "Well, yes. Depends what part of Ukraine. They're not so different languages, the two. — Donna Tartt

I watched 'Rocky' and 'Raging Bull' and 'Taxi Driver' over and over again. They spoke to you, man. — Paddy Considine

They spoke of small things at first, since it was best, when reattaching threads, to begin with the easiest knots. — Chris Cleave

The stars once spoke to man. It is world destiny that they are silent now, but in their silence there grows and ripens what man speaks to the stars! — Rudolf Steiner

It was always like this. When you spoke the truth, they hated you. The more you talked about love, the more they hated you. — Elif Shafak

The kids growing up in the apartheid era were so restricted and angry - if they spoke out against it, they were thrown in jail. — Malik Bendjelloul

Neither of them spoke, they simply stood there, sending, receiving, imprinting the feel of each on the other, indelibly. — Robert James Waller

They were accustomed to being interrupted. Whoever was hungriest to speak, spoke. I wasn't hungry in that same way. I was hungry to listen. — Rachel Kushner

The floodgates of tears are opened, and they would rush out if you spoke much. — Charlotte Bronte

The Greenham women left home for peace: 'Not in our name!' they cried. And in doing so, they spoke for millions. — Beeban Kidron

Keating stood still, because he understood for the first time what it was that artists spoke about when they spoke of beauty. — Ayn Rand

Reef changed what he knew about his Sense. They spoke little but understood each other perfectly. — Veronica Rossi

The manner in which they spoke of the Meryton assembly was sufficiently characteristic. Bingley had never met — Jane Austen

They spoke of destiny and how sometimes we were chosen to do things that others were to weak to do. — Kira Saito

As they spoke, the only thing I could think about was that scene from Julius Caesar where Brutus stabs him in the back. Et tu, Eric? — Nicholas Sparks

Jesus spoke in such a way that the people loved the things of God. That's why they followed him. — Pope Francis

The more she spoke, the better she felt. Like Ben said, they were finally on the same page. — Nicola Sinclair

They laughed together, for a long time. Pain receded and was forgotten. They laughed and never spoke about how much it hurt. — Anthony Ryan

The women that I picked spoke sweet and low
And yet gave tongue. "Hound voices" were they all. — William Butler Yeats

Like all lovers, they spoke much of themselves, as if they might thereby understand the world which made them possible. — John Edward Williams

He spoke in one of the American accents; Lydia couldn't distinguish among them. To her they all sounded dry and tinny. Almost quack-like. — Gregory Maguire

They spoke very little of their mutual feeling; pretty phrases and warm expressions being probably unnecessary between such tried friends. — Thomas Hardy

My parents were both storytellers. They always spoke with metaphorical richness. — Alice Walker

Words drop from my lips spiraling downward; they land scattered on your ears. I spoke them green and golden, but you turned them shriveled brown. — Patricia Robin Woodruff

In a word, many flattering things were said of them. But there was some criticism. People spoke with horror of the number of books they had read. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

What they say about footballers being ignorant is rubbish. I spoke to a couple yesterday and they are quite intelligent. — Raquel Welch

They spoke of age and decay. Of atrophy and ruin. Of the inevitability of loss and the futility of hope. — Stephen Lloyd Jones

And when Mrs. Lincoln and others spoke harshly of the southern people, Lincoln replied: "Don't criticize them; they are just what we would be under — Dale Carnegie