Speakes Quotes & Sayings

44. What do you care about deeply? What would you dedicate your life to if you could? What would you die for? What we feel strongest about, what we tend to argue, defend, or fight for - all of these are indications of our purpose, our message, and our talent. The things that move us to our core - the things that make us angry, sad, or elated - contain clues to what we'll find the most joy, fulfillment, and true success expressing in our work. — Derek Rydall

A journying woman speakes much of all, and all of her. — George Herbert

He that commits a fault, thinkes every one speakes of it.
[He that commits a fault thinks everyone speaks of it.] — George Herbert

No one understands the lines you are writing, and after 25 years you are the only one that speakes that languge . — Adel Abouhana

The groundsell speakes not save what it heard at the hinges. — George Herbert

He that speakes sowes, and he that holds his peace, gathers. — George Herbert

I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest. — Larry Speakes

That's the nice thing about this job. You get to quote yourself shamelessly. If you don't, Larry Speakes will. — Ronald Reagan

If an investigative reporter finds out that someone has been robbing the store, that may be 'gotcha' journalism, but it's also good journalism. — Ben Bradlee

Of him that speakes ill, consider the life more then the word.
[Of him that speaks ill, consider the life more than the word.] — George Herbert

Ol' Shoot from the Lip, we call him. — Larry Speakes

A well-bred youth neither speakes of himselfe, nor being spoken to is silent. — George Herbert

The more people pointed at me in scorn the more stubborn I got and when they began calling me the Bad Girl of West Seattle High, I tried to live up to it. — Frances Farmer

You don't tell us how to stage the news and we don't tell you how to cover it. — Larry Speakes

Write the best thing you can, whatever it is. It is deeply moving to read a letter from Spain or somewhere that says they read my book and fell in love with my daughter. Or that a book I wrote changed their life. It is amazing to be on the receiving end of that. Don't deny yourself that. — Dan Alatorre

Be good, my dears, and if you can't be good don't do it in front of witnesses! — Simon R. Green

When I'm weak, you can be strong; when I'm strong, you can be weak. That's what I believe marriage is. — Gisele Bundchen

People find a sense of being, a sense of worth and substance being associated with land. Association with final roots gives us not only a history but proclaims us heirs to a future. — Haki R. Madhubuti

Those who talk don't know what is going on and those who know what is going on won't talk. — Larry Speakes

Being a press secretary is like learning to type: You're hunting and pecking for a while and then you find yourself doing the touch system and don't realize it. You're speaking for the president without ever having to go to him. — Larry Speakes

The wise hand doth not all that the foolish mouth speakes.
[The wise hand doth not all that the foolish mouth speaks.] — George Herbert

I was as you are now. A peasant. I sought the world. Because the alternative was to spend the rest of my life looking up a plowhorse's backside. — Alan Furst

The effect speakes, the tongue needes not.
[The effect speaks, the tongue needs not.] — George Herbert

The wolf's clear, intelligent eyes brushed mine. The wolf is gentle-hearted. Not noble, not cowardly, just nonfighting. — Lois Crisler

Gratiano speakes an infinite deale of nothing, more then any man in all Venice, his reasons are two graines of wheate hid in two bushels of chaffe: you shall seeke all day ere you finde them, & when you haue them they are not worth the search — William Shakespeare

Rules for a White House Spokesman: No. 1 is always tell the truth. I've got only one currency, that's the truth. There are 10,000 ways to say "no comment," and I've used 9,999 of them. The second rule is don't be afraid to say, "I don't know." You may look dumb, but if you don't know you can't give them hot air because it always shows on your face. — Larry Speakes

Life is fucking confusing. I don't know anything, and neither do you. — Chuck Klosterman

If you tell the same story five times, it's true. — Larry Speakes