Speech Quotes

The great modern heresy in poetry is to confuse the use we make of words in a poem with modalities of speech...For true poetry is never speech but always a song.

Of themselves diseases come upon men continually by day and by night, bringing mischief to mortals silently; for wise Zeus took away speech from them. So is there no way to escape the will of Zeus

You can't just give a speech and expect people to fall down and agree with you.

From his tongue flowed speech sweeter than honey.

In laboring to be concise, I become obscure. [Lat., Brevis esse laboro, obscurus fio.]

The Chinese have an excellent proverb: "Be modest in speech, but excel in action.

In every governmental speech I give before state parliament, I say: Bavaria will remain Bavaria.

Speech isn't for agony.

I believe in poetic discourse, in the value of speech in a non-naturalistic way; it's speculative.

If money is a form of speech, as the Supreme Court has regrettably found, rich donors will always be the loudest speakers.

The areas of the brain that have to do with speech are very connected with the same parallel processors that have to do with the kind of ballistic calculations you need to hit small game with a rock.

I've never thought my speeches were too long; I've rather enjoyed them.

One of the things that fascinates me is the music of speech.

I think almost every political leader is always told that the next speech they make is the most crucial one.

It is one thing to be eloquent and charming in profane speech, and another when the one speaking as a religious.

Give me an opportunity to fail," Saiman said. "I promise my corpse won't interrupt your 'I told you so' speech.

Speech, after all, is in some measure an expression of character, and flexibility in its use is a good way to tell your friends from the robots.

I don't attach importance to great speeches or philosophy.

It's daunting trying to do any service as an American to such a beautiful, fluid speech pattern that you [British] all have. We are just barbarians in comparison.

In rendering its decision in our case, the Supreme Court equated money with speech because these days it takes the first to make yourself heard.

When speech is given to a soul holy and true, time, and its dome of ages, becomes as a mighty whispering-gallery, round which the imprisoned utterance runs, and reverberates forever.

I never would've imagined in the first part of my life that I could've stood up and said anything. The war in Vietnam changed me. I was so angry. Some of my speeches probably weren't well considered.

I think at some point every actor has practiced their acceptance speech while they're having a shower. It's fun.

I speak onstage to try to establish some method of communication. The songs are supposed to be a way of communicating. But speech and drinks and sometimes chocolates are also a way of communicating.

In his first speech as Speaker, Boehner thanked his loved ones - tobacco lobbyists, the oil companies, the CEOs.

President Obama gave a big speech on climate change. He believes global warming is getting worse because apparently he's sweating a lot more during his second term

In his speech last night, John Kerry said this was the beginning of the end of the Bush administration. I agree. Sure, it may take another five years, but this is it.

How many watched the President's speech last night? [half-hearted audience applause] How many watched American Idol ? [thundering applause] Okay, there you go! You get the government you deserve.

In his speech President Bush said we need to rebuild Iraq, provide the people with jobs, and give them hope. If it works there maybe we'll try it in New Orleans.

We rarely repent of speaking little, but often of speaking too much.

It is a great misfortune not to possess sufficient wit to speak well, nor sufficient judgment to keep silent.

If you have to make an unpopular speech, give it all the sincerity you can muster; that's the only way to sweeten it.

I wish that Google would realize its own power in the cause of free speech. Google lives and profits by free speech and must use its considerable power to become a better guardian of it.

I was very much influenced by a great book by the scholar Neil Richards called Intellectual Privacy, that [Louis] Brandeis changed his mind on the proper balance between dignity and free speech.

[Louis Brandeis] believes in natural rights of speech and liberty and the right to pursue happiness.

I went to school. I went to Juilliard. You spend 13 hours a day on voice and speech. Now I realize why.

I am more proud of Hillary Clinton's alt-right speech than any other moment on the campaign .

Most of us do not use speech to express thought. We use it to express feelings.

You think about every piece of idiomatic speech adopted by white men over the past ten or twenty years; virtually all of it comes from hip-hop.

During a speech on Sunday, President Obama said to the crowd, 'We've got to vote. Vote. Vote. Vote. Vote. Vote.' This went on for an hour until someone finally fixed his teleprompter.

The Supreme Court has held that code is speech. And it doesn't matter that it's done on a computer or done face to face or done in a newspaper, reporting the facts of the world is protected speech.

I don't rely on the media. I usually average one speech a day for 25 years. People know me because I'm out there.

We do have freedom of speech, but if you say the wrong word, it looks like it makes headlines. So everybody has to be very careful.

I didn't make a political speech outside of my state for 20 years. And I just focused almost exclusively on my initiatives for national crime legislation, foreign policy issues.

As a matter of fact, I didn't make a political speech outside of my state for 20 years.

Fundamental modes of speech, the bulk of the vocabulary, are formed in the ordinary intercourse of life, carried on not as a set means of instruction but as a social necessity.

U.S.A. is the speech of the people

If I could do it all over again," he said, his speech slow and vaguely mangled by his massive lower lip, "I'd just let myself be trampled to death by the Satan Pig.

Texting is fingered speech. Now we can write the way we talk.

If money is free speech, the big interests are sitting in front with megaphones and the average citizens are sitting in the back.