Speak Now Quotes

• There is a time for silence. There is a time for waiting you turn. But if you know how you feel and you so clearly know what you need to say you'll know it. I don't think you should wait. I think you should speak now.

  Taylor Swift

  Thinking, Silence, Waiting

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• Silence is complicity. Speak now or surrender your ground.

  Michelle Malkin

  Silence, Speak, Surrender

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• I don't think you should wait. I think you should speak now.

  Taylor Swift

  Thinking, Waiting, Fearless

  "Concert Review: Taylor Swift" by Jessica Norton, www.seventeen.com. August 18, 2011.

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• Real life is a funny thing, you know. In real life saying the right thing at the right time is beyond crucial.

  Taylor Swift

  Real, Funny Things, Life Is

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• The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad.

  Mark Twain

  Travel, Ass, Gentle

  Mark Twain (2008). “The Innocents Abroad”, p.233, Velvet Element Books

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• The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad. I speak now, of course, in the supposition that the gentle reader has not been abroad, and therefore is not already a consummate ass. If the case be otherwise, I beg his pardon and extend to him the cordial hand of fellowship and call him brother.

  Mark Twain

  Travel, Brother, Hands

  Mark Twain (2008). “The Innocents Abroad”, p.233, Velvet Element Books

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• I can change, but as we speak now, I really have zero desire to see my name in the press.

  George W. Bush

  Zero, Names, Desire

  Source: www.texasmonthly.com

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• When the Irish nun said to me, "Speak your name loud and clear so that all the boys and girls can hear you," she was asking me to use language publicly, with strangers. That's the appropriate instruction for a teacher to give. If she were to say to me, "We are going to speak now in Spanish, just like you do at home. You can whisper anything you want to me, and I am going to call you by a nickname, just like your mother does," that would be inappropriate. Intimacy is not what classrooms are about.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Girl, Mother, Teacher

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• When I go and speak now at all sorts of conferences, later in the night there's always a better Maxie Walker than me. Billy Birmingham's legendary for basically being able to verbally kneecap any of a number of Australia's characters, particularly in the commentary box.

  Max Walker

  Character, Night, Numbers

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We speak now or I do, and others do. You've never spoken before. You will. You'll be able to say how the city is a pit and a hill and a standard and an animal that hunts and a vessel on the sea and the sea and how we are fish in it, not like the man who swims weekly with fish but the fish with which he swims, the water, the pool. I love you, you light me, warm me, you are suns. You have never spoken before.

  China Mieville

  Love You, Animal, Men

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• I speak now, Harry Potter, directly to you. You have permitted your friends to die for you rather than face me yourself. I shall wait for one hour in the Forbidden Forest. If, at the end of that hour, you have not come to me, have not given yourself up, then battle recommences. This time, I shall enter the fray myself, Harry Potter, and I shall find you, and I shall punish every last man, woman, and child who has tried to conceal you from me. One hour.

  J. K. Rowling

  Children, Men, Waiting

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• When I speak now, my experience in art wells up so articulately that I am surprised even while I am talking. I move around a podium as easily as if it were my living room and although I am keyed up I am not anxious. I feel as if I were doing what I should be doing - the feeling I have when intent in my studio.

  Anne Truitt

  Art, Moving, Talking

  Anne Truitt (1987). “Turn: The Journal of an Artist”

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• Everything I know and I am and I have seen felt done past present past now then before now seen felt done hurt felt focus into a something beyond words beyond beyond beyond and it speaks now and it says. Stay. Fight. Live. Take it.

  James Frey

  Hurt, Fighting, Past

  James Frey (2004). “A Million Little Pieces”, p.223, Anchor

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