Speech Quotes

Free speech is life itself.

A good speech has a beginning, a middle and an end, the best example being, 'I love you.'

It's not about contraception. It's about economic liberty, it's about freedom of speech, it's about freedom of religion, it's about government control of your lives and it's got to stop!

Silence is a figure of speech, unanswerable, short, cold, but terribly severe.

The real problem in speech is not precise language. The problem is clear language.

Most profoundly deaf people have speech that is very difficult to understand.

He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.

To be apt in quotation is a splendid and dangerous gift. Splendid, because it ornaments a man's speech with other men's jewels; dangerous, for the same reason.

Speech is of time, silence is of eternity.

I think the interview form works best on the radio. There are a lot of personality traits conveyed in a person's voice, the rhythm of their speech or how confident they sound.

Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason.

I understand why people get desensitized and roll their eyes when they hear a protest song, or even a politician making some flowery speech. It doesn't really change anything.

The whole end of speech is to be understood.

Silence is a form of communication. Speech divides us.

The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech.

There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans ... and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.

My father and he had cemented one of those English friendships which begin by avoiding intimacies and eventually eliminate speech altogether.

Free thought, free speech and a free press.

Speech lessons probably did more for my singing voice - they teach you breathing, resonance

It occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility.

A speech should not just be a sharing of information, but a sharing of yourself.

We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

It was pleasant to talk shop again; to use that elliptical, allusive speech that one uses only with another of one's trade.

I suspect that music has qualities both of speech and writing - partly built in, partly individually constructed - and this goes on all through one's life.

Song is the licensed medium for bawling in public things too silly or sacred to be uttered in ordinary speech.

I don't know if I'd call myself a prodigy, but I was a big forensics competitor in high school, and then during college I spent some time working at speech and debate camps as a coach.

Another good thing about gossip is that it is within everybody's reach, And it is much more interesting than any other form of speech.

You believe in freedom of speech for communists because what they say is true. You do not believe in freedom of speech for fascists because what they say is a lie.

The whole art of the political speech is to put 'nothing' into it. It is much more difficult than it sounds.

Speech is the mirror of the soul.

Speech is a mirror of the soul: as a man speaks, so is he.

The only place you see a free market is in the speeches of politicians.

What view is one likely to take of the state of a person's mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?

It is well to remember that grammar is common speech formulated.

Phocion compared the speeches of Leosthenes to cypress-trees. "They are tall," said he, "and comely, but bear no fruit."

We need to be I think equally sensitive to the injurious power of certain kinds of speech acts but also to the subversive and possibly liberatory effects of certain kinds of play.

In good speaking, should not the mind of the speaker know the truth of the matter about which he is to speak.

It is not easy to describe the present position of legal opinion on advertising and free speech. Only a poet can capture the essence of chaos.

Any man who makes a speech more than six times a year is bound to repeat himself, not because he has little to say, but because he wants applause and the old stuff gets it.

Some people still believe you should just fall in line with whats going on - and thats scary. It makes a mockery of freedom of speech.

Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.

Redefine the possible.

Well, my brother says 'Hello.' So, hooray for speech therapy.

Banquet: a plate of cold, hairy chicken and artificially coloured green peas completely surrounded by dreary speeches and appeals for donations.

The other night, the president gave a speech. He said, "children are our most prescious natural resource". I thought, "let's hope it never comes to that".

IN MY NERVOUSNESS FOR THIS SPEECH AND MY MOMENTS OF DOUBT, I'VE TOLD MYSELF FIRMLY, 'IF NOT ME, WHO? IF NOT NOW, WHEN?'

Nonviolence is not just abstention from war, fighting, or animal flesh. It is abstention from negative thoughts and negative speech.

You can't expect to communicate with anyone if you're a bore.

I forgot Dumbledore trashed Hogwarts, refused to resign and ran off to the forest to make speeches to angry trolls.

A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.