Speakers find joy in public speaking when they realize that a speech is all about the audience, not the speaker. Most speakers… — Nick Morgan Copy Share Image
Leon Theremin's original designs are elegant, ingenious and effective. As electronics goes, the theremin is very simple. But there are so many… — Robert Moog Copy Share Image
The values that we share - freedom of speech, freedom of religious practice, freedom for civil society, free and fair elections, all… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
It is remarkable, but on the whole, perhaps, not to be lamented, that the world is so unkind to a new book.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“When I speak in Christian terms or Buddhist terms I'm simply selecting for the moment a dialect. Christian words for me represent… — Mary Rose O'Reilley Copy Share Image
The First and Fourteenth Amendments say that Congress and the States shall make "no law" which abridges freedom of speech or of… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
See if you can catch yourself complaining in either speech or thought, about a situation you find yourself in, what other people… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Music. – There is something very wonderful in music. Words are wonderful enough: but music is even more wonderful. It speaks not… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
No, and in fact I get a bit frustrated, because I'm actually quite good at one-liners, and I've had hundreds of them… — Vince Cable Copy Share Image
Speech, tennis, music, skiing, manners, love- you try them waking and perhaps balk at the jump, and then you're over. You've caught… — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
When Harel wished to put a joke or witticism into circulation, he was in the habit of connecting it with some celebrated… — Louis Edouard Fournier Copy Share Image
I now understand what Nelle Morton meant when she said that one of the great tasks in our time is to "hear… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
I've had my breath taken away when a fan told me since watching my speech she has stopped herself being beaten up… — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
“The Artificial’s speech pattern was an idiosyncratic mix of awkward and colloquial. It was unexpectedly endearing. “I just have good instincts. Mostly… — G.S. Jennsen Copy Share Image
America comes with both rights and responsibilities. You have, for example, the right to free speech, but you have the responsibility to… — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
Prayer is sort of like an unlocked door with a giant, red-lettered sign on it that says: "Welcome. Feel Free to Take… — Gloria Gaither Copy Share Image
The only valid reason to use clichés is in the speech of a character. Cliches are indications of sloppy writing. The writer… — Leonard Bishop Copy Share Image
Many words and expressions which only a matter of decades ago were considered so distastefully explicit that, were they merely to be… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The government being the people's business, it necessarily follows that its operations should be at all times open to the public view.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believe in fiction and the power of stories because that way we speak in tongues. We are not silenced. All of… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
If the devil never roars, the Church will never sing! God is not doing much if the devil is not awake and… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
... whatever men do or know or experience can make sense only to the extent that it can be spoken about. There… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Youth is terrible: it is a stage trod by children in buskins and a variety of costumes mouthing speeches they've memorized and… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
So you say, with your shiny hair and pouty lips - and those breasts - just wait till you start dropping whelps,… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
Exploring and understanding the Net is an ongoing process. Cyberspace never sits still; it evolves as fast as society itself. Only if… — Mike Godwin Copy Share Image
In ordinary speech the words perception and sensation tend to be used interchangeably, but the psychologist distinguishes. Sensations are the items of… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
During Mr. Reagan's trip to Europe...members of the traveling press corps watched him doze off so many times--during speeches by French President… — Mark Hertsgaard Copy Share Image
Our institutions, if they do not erode entirely, can survive periods of decadence brought on by our material success, eras when the… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
During the Q&A periods after my speeches, it is the men who say to me, "Help me understand how I am going… — Vicki Donlan Copy Share Image
The social or economic structure of the ideal state is of little concern to me. My desires are modest. Portraits of the… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Forget what you learned about poetry in school. (That it's complex, opaque, a problem to be solved in 1500 words by tomorrow.)… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
The President didn't offer any clarity in his latest speech about what he would do to tackle our nation's debt before it… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
What then, is correctness of speech but the maintenance of the practice of others, as established by the authority of ancient speakers?… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Speech is such definite thing ... Maybe it's a matter if sincerity. I'm never that certain of anything I feel about a… — Andrew McGahan Copy Share Image
The Framers of the First Amendment were not concerned with preventing government from abridging their freedom to speak about crops and cockfighting,… — George Will Copy Share Image
The greater the importance to safeguarding the community from incitements to the overthrow of our institutions by force and violence, the more… — Charles Evans Hughes Copy Share Image
Sarah Palin was delivering a speech and she said 'refudiate.' It's not a word – you have refute and repudiate, and she… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
We are being at once wisely aware of our own frivolity if we avoid hitting and whacking and prefer 'striking' and 'smiting';… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Your speech is pompous sounding, full of pride, as fits the lackey of the Gods. You are young and young your rule… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
