Speech Quotes

The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?

It is Barack Obama who is at war with this country. Recent events prove it. This is not a cliche. It's not a figure of speech. Obama is at war with the U.S. economy.

Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river.

In very ancient times of human evolution upon earth, humanity's revelation in word and sound was not differentiated in song and speech, but they were one.

I have no technical psychological interest; it is drama, speech,and events that interest me.

A speech is entertaining only when serenely detached from all information.

There are no bad haircuts in cyberspace.

What a name! Was it love or praise? Speech half-asleep or song half-awake? I must learn Spanish, one of these days, Only for that slow sweet name's sake.

First Amendment speech and press rights may also be subordinated to the overriding need to wage war successfully.

I hope some day to make you all a cup of coffee. Alright, peace.

There seems to be so much shame wrapped up in speech disabilities. It seems very sad and complicated all at the same time.

I love it when dogs yawn. Especially when it's in the middle of another dog's speech.

There will be no more protests. No more dissension. No more violence. There will be only one voice. The voice of Ravinia. The voice of Halla. Your voice." "There goes freedom of speech," I said.

I hated my childhood. It was loathsome. My parents were deaf and dumb. Profoundly so. They could make noises when they were emotionally aroused, but they couldn't form it into speech.

President Obama said that we rely too much on gadgets. He gave a passionate speech about technology, but he had to stop when the teleprompter broke.

It's better to say nothing than spend 1,000 words or an hour speech saying nothing. Get to the point.

A vigorous democracy a democracy in which there are freedom from want, freedom from fear, freedom of religion, and freedom of speech would never succumb to communism or any other ism.

I think if we ban certain religions, if we censor the Internet, I think that at that point the terrorists will have won.

There is stupid. And then there is cyberstupid.

Hubert, a speech doesn't have to be eternal to be immortal.

I don't understand why they call it public broadcasting. As far as I am concerned, there's nothing public about it; it's an elitist enterprise. 'Rush Limbaugh' is public broadcasting.

Free markets are a tool, free speech is a goal.

Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the impression that their style was nursed by the closest attention to colloquial speech.

Free speech includes the right to not speak.

Having served in eleven Parliaments, it would be difficult to describe this as a maiden speech. It would be like Elizabeth Taylor appearing at her next wedding in a white gown.

Language, as well as the faculty of speech, was the immediate gift of God.

Who ever heard a theologian preface his creed, or a politician conclude his speech with an estimate of the probable error of his opinion?

No machines will ever truly fully figure the brain out, because the brain's performance is constantly altered or else constrained by this inanimate, rogue artifact you can't control, namely, speech.

If lyrics make people do things, how come we don't love each other?

Freedom is not only the absence of external restraints. It is also the absence of irresistible internal compulsions, unmanageable passion, and uncensorable highlights.

I wrote this speech thinking this was going to be it. It's not it. You guys went and screwed up my whole speech. We've got to come back here on Tuesday and drink some more beer.

Mere brave speech without action is letting off useless steam.

I am broadly concerned about the slow death of free speech, but particularly in universities and also with regards to the climate change debate.

There is no reason for the government to limit political speech.

Mum would have a panic attack if she had to stand up and give a speech around a table.

Speech happens to not be his language.

Many things are better for silence than for speech: others are better for speech than for stationery.

Nobody is capable of of free speech unless he knows how to use language, and such knowledge is not a gift: it has to learned and worked at.

I think people loosely use the term 'free speech.' If the market wants to be such that people don't want to watch someone, so be it.

I think freedom of speech is important, but coupled with responsibility.

Freedom of the press and also of speech, assembly, and worship can persist as social forms and legal guarantees, while at the same time their functional realities can be gradually slipping away.

I bet we'll see a lot of demagoguery [in Donald Trump speech] about the 10,000 Syrians that [Barack] Obama has allowed to be resettled here.

I definitely didn't fit in perfectly to the school system. I was raised with such freedom of speech and thinking.

Never write down your speeches beforehand; if you do, you may perhaps be a good declaimer, but will never be a debater.

Tears at times have the weight of speech.

The net effect of Clarence Darrow's great speech yesterday seemed to be precisely the same as if he had bawled it up a rainspout in the interior of Afghanistan.

Music has been called the speech of the angels; I will go farther and call it the speech of God Himself.

The American people, I am convinced, really detest free speech. At the slightest alarm they are ready and eager to put it down.

It was a profound saying of Wilhelm Humboldt, that 'Man is man only by means of speech, but in order to invent speech he must be already man.'

Without freedom of speech, I might be in the swamp