Speech Quotes

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

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

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

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

Free thought, free speech and a free press.

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

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.

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

Silence is a form of communication. Speech divides us.

The whole end of speech is to be understood.

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.

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

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.

Speech is of time, silence is of eternity.

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.

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

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

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

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

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!

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

I never had a speech from my father 'this is what you must do or shouldn't do' but I just learned to be led by example. My father wasn't perfect.

That which is repeated too often becomes insipid and tedious.

To view the opposition as dangerous is to misunderstand the basic concepts of democracy. To oppress the opposition is to assault the very foundation of democracy.

Everyone has their own ways of expression. I believe we all have a lot to say, but finding ways to say it is more than half the battle.

His own opinion, which he does not air, is that the origin of speech lie in song, and the origins of song in the need to fill out with sound the overlarge and rather empty human soul.

Let justice be done tho the heavens fall.

It seems that the right of freedom of speech that was enshrined in numerous constitutions is now under attack by religious institutions.

We should pass a flex time law that allows employees to take their overtime pay in money or in time off, depending on what's better for their family.

We should not have either a blunt knife or a freedom of speech which is ill-managed.

For pale and trembling anger rushes in With faltering speech, and eyes that wildly stare, Fierce as the tiger, madder than the seas, Desperate and armed with more than human strength.

Any kind of restrictions put on free speech would have worse consequences than bullying.

Not every one who has the gift of speech understands the value of silence.

I don't think, in all the years I managed them, I ever spoke more than thirty words to Frank and Brooks Robinson.

I write in a slangy colloquial speech that has not been common in the Israeli tradition of writing, and that is one of the things that gets lost a little in translation.

I never threw away that paper with my Grammy speech because I haven't hit the pinnacles I plan to reach.

Real speech can only come from complete silence. Incomplete silence is as fussy as deliberate conversation.

The color of the mountains is Buddha's body; the sound of running water is his great speech.

What we have is two important values in conflict: freedom of speech and our desire for healthy campaigns in a healthy democracy. You can't have both.

You will never see a U-Haul behind a hearse.

Cats have a contempt of speech. Why should they talk when they can communicate without words?

I wasn't a kid growing up thinking, 'One day I'll get an Oscar and make a speech.' That wasn't on my mind.

It is by speech that many of our best gains are made. A large part of the good we receive comes to us in conversation.

In a good play every speech should be as fully flavored as a nut or apple.

The Internet is a powerful example of free speech and the free market in action; it is curious that the Net has alarmed the lawmakers of a nation founded on those principles.

Their silent wounds have speech More eloquent than men; Their tones can deeper reach Than human voice or pen.

Good even, good fair moon, good even to thee. I prithee, dear moon, now show to me the form and the features, the speech and degree, of the man that true lover of mine shall be.

The true speech of man is idiomatic, if not of the earth and sky, then at least of the saloon and the bleachers.

Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.

The average Southerner has the speech patterns of someone slipping in and out of consciousness. I can change my shoes and socks faster than most people in Mississippi can speak a sentence.