I can't relate to lazy people. We don't speak the same language. I don't understand you. I don't want to understand you.Kobe Bryant
I don't know if it's how I speak or what it is about me that presents that sort of label, but I don't know how many times I have to be out in public with a girlfriend to stop that from being said. Jeff Garcia
I don't think you can talk about progress in art - movement, but not progress. You can speak of a point on a line for the purpose of locating things, but it's a horizontal line, not a vertical one. Donald Barthelme
I grew up in northern New Jersey - the banlieue of New York - and I now live in Brooklyn. I am separated from my parents by about 50 miles, but really there is almost no distance between us. I speak to them nearly every day. Jonathan Ames
I need music. It's like my heartbeat, so to speak. It keeps me going no matter what's going on - bad games, press, whatever! LeBorn Jemes
I should have been thinking more about my family, how I raised my children, how I maintained life's work, so to speak. Joe Namath
I speak Mandarin and can read and write a little. I took a few classes at Harvard to get better in my reading and writing skills. Jeremy Lin
I think for me, or for anyone who plays the quarterback position, it's almost an unspoken word when you think about leadership. Some guys can be a leader and be a running back or a lineman, or wide receiver, strong safety, or linebacker. But when you speak of quarterbacks, it's automatically a default that you're supposed to be a leader. Cam Newton
I think people should read fairy tales, because we're hungry for a mythology that will speak to our fears. Sandra Cisneros
I think public intellectuals have a responsibility - to be self-critical on the one hand, to do serious, nuanced work rigorously executed; but to also be able to get off those perches and out of those ivory towers and speak to the real people who make decisions; to speak truth to power and the powerless with lucidity and eloquence. Michael Eric Dyson
I try to be as honest about what I see and to speak rather than be silent, especially if it means I can save lives, or serve humanity. Sandra Cisneros
I write by hand, making many, many corrections. I would say I cross out more than I write. I have to hunt for words when I speak, and I have the same difficulty when writing. Italo Calvino
I write by hand, making many, many corrections. I would say I cross out more than I write. I have to hunt for words when I speak, and I have the same difficulty when writing. Italo Calvino
I'd rather let the fiction speak for itself and I don't want to write fiction that tells people how to feel, and I don't want to be judgmental in the fiction. Bret Easton Ellis
I'm not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me. You can't possibly speak for a diverse group of people. I don't know what it's like to be an arm amputee, or have even one flesh-and-bone leg, or to have cerebral palsy. Aimee Mullins