Speech Quotes
Rising prices or wages do not cause inflation; they only report it. They represent an essential form of economic speech, sincemoney isjust another form of information.
To me, Romney is 'Our Idiot Brother', and Obama is 'The King's Speech'. You can spend all the money in the world. If you've got a bad product, it doesn't matter.
What the tender and poetic youth dreams to-day, and conjures up with inarticulate speech, is to-morrow the vociferated result of public opinion, and the day after is the character of nations.
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg fell asleep during Obama's speech. She woke up with the other justices drawing a gavel on her face.
God has given us speech in order that we may say pleasant things to our friends, and tell bitter truths to our enemies.
Of course you will insist on modesty in the children, and respect to their teachers, but if the boy stops you in your speech, cries out that you are wrong and sets you right, hug him!
I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven.
The time has now come to amend the Constitution to restore freedom of speech for America's people of faith.
Actually, you know who gave the shortest inauguration speech in history? George Washington. It was only like three minutes long. Well, sure. George Washington couldn't tell a lie.
Another air traffic controller fell asleep on the job, but he had a good excuse. He was watching President Obama’s deficit speech.
If you're dealing with a musical in which you're trying to tell a story, it's got to sound like speech. At the same time it's got to be a song.
Eloquence is the language of nature, and cannot be learned in the schools; but rhetoric is the creature of art, which he who feels least will most excel in.
Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.
Being civilized means that one keeps one's words unrelated to one's thoughts, when necessary.
Tell X that speech is not dirty silence Clarified. It is silence made still dirtier.
Speech is like cloth of Arras opened and put abroad, whereby the imagery doth appear in figure; whereas in thoughts they lie but as packs.
Speeches and me don't get along sometimes. It is kind of like putting a tie too tight on my neck. I'm going to do whatever feels right.
Gather a shell from the strewn beach And listen at its lips: they sigh The same desire and mystery, The echo of the whole sea's speech.
For some time its been my habit to use images when preparing a speech: rather than write it down, I illustrate it.
My language! heavens!I am the best of them that speak this speech. Were I but where 'tis spoken.
Freedom of speech does not mean freedom of offending culture, religion or traditions.
Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of a human need for it, and it has not changed except to become more needed
I typically start out almost every speech I give making some kind of joke about me being in a wheelchair.
Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech.
I am aware that America is and must always be a land of freedom including freedom of speech. But there is a right time and place for everything
... I could have said something profound, but you would have forgotten it in 15 minutes - which is the afterlife of a graduation speech.
They did something once that slurred my speech, and I thought, "Oh, man, you're messing with my brain. It's freaking me out."
A dream is always simmering below the conventional surface of speech and reflection.
I wait. I compose myself. My self is a thing I must now compose, as one composes a speech. What I must present is a made thing, not something born.
