I want to suggest to you that the day of the artists has come. That there are things about symbols and the genuine indirectness of art with integrity that can speak into a lost and stuck imagination. We are awakening the imagination of people who have become cynical about the old 'grand stories' that have done so much harm. We are sowing the possibility that the might be one which could actually set them free.
To introduce a new play only six weeks after another has been banned is also a way to speak one's piece to the government. It proves that art and liberty can grow back in one night under the clumsy foot which crushes them.
I may boldly speak In right, though proud oppression will not hear me!
Live with a man forty years. Share his house, his meals, speak on every subject. Then tie him up and hold him over the volcano's edge, and on that day, you will finally meet the man.
I'll speak for the man, or against him, whichever will do him the most good.
Alas! is even love too weak To unlock the heart, and let it speak?
You can't speak Music with notes alone, but you can speak Music without notes at all!
Pain will force even the truthful to speak falsely
The noise around us determines how we speak. And how we listen. Just as a conversation suffers in a war zone, art suffers in a culture built on noise. So does our enjoyment of it.
I kept trying to tell people that just because I was young didn't mean I could speak for all young people.
There are some books that reached through the noise of life to grab you by the collar and speak only of the truest things.
When I speak of home, I speak of the place where in default of a better--those I love are gathered together; and if that place where a gypsy's tent, or a barn, I should call it by the same good name notwithstanding.
When one woman doesn't speak, other women get hurt.
Nature paints the best part of a picture, carves the best parts of the statue, builds the best part of the house, and speaks the best part of the oration.
. . . love dreads being isolated, being left to speak in a void -- at the beginning it would often rather listen than speak.
I had 2 choices, be silent and get killed, or speak up and be killed, I chose the second option.
Be sure that you speak with unfeigned lips.
I think, when you see kind of dysfunction among the Democrats of the Republicans, it impacts the whole country: the way we feel about each other, our ability to speak as one. And in this case, I think there are lots of Republicans who are worried about, does Donald Trump really represent conservatism?
Any simpleton can speak with confidence. Sometimes the greatest fools have the most bravado.
Let there be but two occasions for speech - when the subject is one which you thoroughly know and when it is one on which you are compelled to speak. On these occasions alone is speech better than silence; on all others, it is better to be silent than to speak.