Speech Quotes

Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave.

When people try to stop free speech, stop people from talking, it creates pressure in the system that might cause people to act out.

Just as our bread, mixed and baked, packaged and sold without benefit of accident or human frailty, is uniformly good and uniformly tasteless, so will our speech become one speech.

Speech is as a pump, by which we raise and pour out the water from the great lake of Thought,--whither it flows back again.

At the end of your life, do you give a concession speech?

I’m always focussed on the actual work, and I think that’s a much more succinct way to describe what you care about than any speech I could ever make.

As I've been acting since I was young it's taught me to give a good speech, and, though I say so myself, I did it pretty well.

Indeed, one modern President abjured God altogether, ending speeches with a chaste 'Thank you very much.' This was Jimmy Carter, the most genuinely devout President of the postwar period.

Common fluency of speech in many men and most women is owing to a scarcity of matter.

Speech is but the incorporation of thought.

Man is born with the faculty of speech. Who gives it to him? He who gives the bird its song.

You don't have to give way to careless speech or complaining. You don't have to let your feelings get in the way of what God wants to do in your life.

I love the kookiness of our speech. Speech is like wonderful magic and poetry in itself. I've always had to crib a lot from what I've heard.

Nothing shows the kind of fool you are as quick as your tongue.

You lose a bit of control every time you insert hesitation into your speech.

His speech failed to rouse an enthusiastic cheer, but no one dared contradict him.

The basic line in any good verse is cadenced... building it around the natural breath structures of speech.

Carli Fiorina is really annoying. Hell, they're all annoying. But Fiorina doesn't even pretend to offer up policy answers. She just gives mini stump speeches about how bad everything is.

You are good when you are fully awake in your speech, Yet you are not evil when you sleep while your tongue staggers without purpose. And even stumbling speech may strengthen a weak tongue.

The freedom of speech and the freedom of press, it's just precious man, it really is.

As entertainers, you're afraid [about] loss of income - but if other people start going to jail for free speech, then we've lost this great thing that America is, and I'd like to keep that.

Every writer has to write his speech.

Speech sounds can be analyzed into fundamental units called phonemes; these move around like protozoa in a drop of water, and, like protozoa, join together and split up.

Nature doesn't make long speeches.

Privacy is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution as freedom of speech is in the First Amendment.

Apple doesn't have to write code, which equals speech, when it doesn't agree with what the government wants to do. And it's not that the government can't make you do anything you don't want to do.

There is still the illusion that if we could declare corporations are not people or that money is not speech, all would be solved. Regardless of the good in those ideas, it wouldn't.

When I saw Fannie Lou Hamer speech I said, "Well, how did this Democratic Party that Miss Hamer is talking about, become the Democratic Party that now is the party of the African-American community?"

You can't give any exciting speech without misremembering things.

It is amazing how much a thought expands and refines by being put into speech: I should think it could hardly know itself.

PLAIN SUPERFICIALITY is the character of a speech, in which any two points being taken, the speaker is found to lie wholly with regard to those two points.

Humans abhor a vacuum. The immediate filling of a vacuum is one of the basic functions of speech. Meaningless conversations are no less important in our lives than meaningful ones.

The poetry of speech.

A city built upon mud; A culture built upon profit; Free speech nipped in the bud, The minority always guilty. Why should I want to go back To you, Ireland, my Ireland?

I give them experiments and they respond with speeches.

To sew is to pray. Men don't understand this. They see the whole but they don't see the stitches. They don't see the speech of the creator in the work of the needle.

Truth is not so threadbare as speech, because fewer people can make use of it.

The great thing about improvisation is that it allows us to establish an uncensored form of theater. Freedom of speech is absolutely inherent to artistic expression.

I can't say I'm not nervous at all with media and doing speeches, but I'm getting used to it and better at it, hopefully.

Never make a speech at a country dance or a football game.

There are two kinds of speeches: the Mother Hubbard speech, which, like the garment, covers everything but touches nothing, and the French bathing suit speech, which covers only the essential points.

I'm heavily influenced by Edward Ardizzone, how he has people talking in little speech bubbles. I love those. And also Edward Gorey. Those are two of my favorite people.

Freedom of worship, even of public speech, would become a farce if interference became the order of the day.

The music of life is in danger of being lost in the music of the voice.

Prayer needs no speech. It is in itself independent of any sensuous effort. But it must be combined with the utmost humility.

The one religion is beyond all speech.

Do not desire to hear about the misfortunes of those who oppose you. For those who listen to such speech later reap the fruits of their evil intention.

For just as some women are said to be handsome though without adornment, so this subtle manner of speech, though lacking in artificial graces, delights us.

The animals have no need for speech, why talk when you are a word.

I'm very open and never write what I'm going to say. Speeches bore everybody else. I have to freestyle. Every time, from one program to another, everything changes and I improvise.