Speech Quotes

I think Will Smith's character says it best in his opening speech when he says, "We long for love, we wish we had more time and we're afraid of death."

Human life consists of doing certain things ... to take part in the life of the community; to be able to talk about subjects that interest me and there freedom of speech comes into it.

Slurring is the cursive of speech.

There is no weapon in the end as difficult to overcome as the tongue of an enemy.

[Liberals] are always accusing us of repressing their speech. I say let's do it. Let's repress them. ... Frankly, I'm not a big fan of the First Amendment.

The first rule for speaking well is to think well.

Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.

Allegory dwells in a transparent palace.

He called for military supremacy, no welfare and cultural rebirth. It was a nice speech, but it sounded a lot better in its original German.

There is a terrific apprehension among some people that blacks will take over the sport... It will create problems because their behavior, speech and dress is just a completely different culture.

This sounds crazy, but my goal is to be nominated for an Oscar. I was the kid who was practicing my acceptance speech when I was ten.

In holy music's golden speech Remotest notes to notes respond: Each octave is a world; yet each Vibrates to worlds beyond its own.

Power should answer by action, not by speech.

I [give] maybe the long-winded speeches that not everybody reads, but I can also do a slow jam on Jimmy Fallon better than most.

Some people only speak of freedom of speech while they're out of power. Once they're in power, they're ruthless in suppressing the rights of others.

Peace depends upon compromise among peoples who must live together long after our speeches are over, long after our votes have been tallied.

I've always thought the most patriotic thing you could do in a democracy is to speak the truth as you see it. And that's what we're supposed to be about in America. Freedom of speech.

Fateful moments tend to evoke grandeur of speech, especially in French.

It's a blessing as an artist to express myself - whether that be via dance, via song or via speech - in so many different ways.

As to Magyar, I think that my speech was incorrect, inappropriate.

No glass renders a man's form or likeness so true as his speech.

All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome

Abuses of the freedom of speech ought to be repressed, but to whom are we to commit the power of doing it?

[The decision to travel to Washington and deliver the speech] has injected a degree of partisanship, which is not only unfortunate, I think it's destructive of the fabric of the relationship

Every man is born with the faculty of reason and the faculty of speech, but why should he be able to speak before he has anything to say?

People have a right to give a speech. And people have a right to protest. But I'm not a great fan of disrupting people's speeches.

Heretical views arise when the truth is uncertain, and it is only when the truth is uncertain that censorship is invoked.

Rarely has a people paid the lavish compliment and taken the subtle revenge of turning its oppressor's speech into sorcery.

I mean, I'm 6-foot-11, I've got red hair, freckles, I'm a goofy, nerdy-looking guy, I've got a speech impediment-I stutter and stammer all the time-and I'm a Deadhead.

I've spent too much time giving speeches, traveling the world.

Do you wish people to speak well of you? Then do not speak at all yourself.

I've discovered this new electronic technique that creates new speech out of stuff that's already there.

Everybody has a different Internet.

I realized, "Oh my god, this is an enormous play. And it's almost all me. Big. big chunks of speeches, speeches, speeches." And I started to panic.

For jokes as well as justice come in with speech.

Corporations have at different times been so far unable to distinguish freedom of speech from freedom of lying that their freedom has to be curbed.

I went to drama college in England - the Central School of Speech and Drama, in London. I was there for not quite two years, then I got Star Wars.

[Albert] Camus writes his acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize in thanks to his teacher.

Nature is a temple, where the living Columns sometimes breathe confusing speech; Man walks within these groves of symbols, each Of which regards him as a kindred thing.

The Grecian’s maxim would indeed be a sweeping clause in Literature; it would reduce many a giant to a pygmy; many a speech to a sentence; and many a folio to a primer.

There is but one pleasure in life equal to that of being called on to make an after-dinner speech, and that is not being called on to make one.

I indeed had only one scene, one speech, one little speech, but it was with Robin Williams.

With our financial house on fire, Obama makes clear both in in his speech and his budget that the essence of his presidency will be the transformation of health care, education and energy.

I think it is important to begin with a statement in your speech that grabs the attention of the audience. I try to make my opening line 15 words or less.

Speech recognition is utterly crap for writing fiction. If you try reading a novel aloud you'll soon figure out why - written prose style is utterly unlike the spoken word.

In terms of political contributions, the free speech rights of corporations I dont think deserve the same protections as the free speech rights of real living, breathing, voting humans.

I've had a lot of fear in my life, from fear of flying to fear of making a speech in front of a lot of people.

The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure of speech is too great for his income of ideas.

In an interview, Hillary Clinton said she likes nearly every flavor of ice cream. When he heard this, Chris Christie said 'Hey, she stole my speech.'

Sarah Palin gave a speech in South Korea. Just what the Koreans needed: Two crazy dictators in fashionable lady's glasses.