I've had a lot of fear in my life, from fear of flying to fear of making a speech in front of… — Chris Evert Copy Share Image
Growing up, I was constantly labeled an 'oreo' by my black peers because of my proper speech and 'valley girl accent.' — Franchesca Ramsey Copy Share Image
During an election campaign the air is full of speeches and vice versa. — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
“Spanish—how shall I say this?—is like Portuguese spoken with a speech impediment.” — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I! — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
I detest my fellow-beings and do not feel that I am their fellow at all — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
The law is agnostic about truth. It's very skeptical of ultimate truth. That's why freedom of speech permits lies to be told. — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
Gerald Jonas's book about stuttering is called 'The Disorder of Many Theories.' Back theory seems to suffer from the same 'Rashomon' effect:… — David Shields Copy Share Image
Loud speech, profusion of words, and possessing skillfulness in expounding scriptures are merely for the enjoyment of the learned. They do not… — Adi Shankara Copy Share Image
Freedom of speech is of no use to a man who has nothing to say and freedom of worship is of no… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
We really don't have free speech protections. I mean, if it exists, there are rules about it. If it exists, it is… — Milo Yiannopoulos Copy Share Image
Donald Trump foreign policy speech got good reviews, and it says we're going to defeat the people who are direct threats to… — Jeff Sessions Copy Share Image
Language is in decline. Not only has eloquence departed but simple, direct speech as well, though pomposity and banality have not. — Edwin Newman Copy Share Image
I've stammered all my life, and it's fair to say that my stammer has shaped my life. It's made me make some… — Gareth Gates Copy Share Image
“If words are to be uttered, they would be from behind the partition. Unaccountable is distance, time to transport from this present… — Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Copy Share Image
But the trouble with sainthood these days is the robe-and-halo imagery that gets stuck onto it." Carl got that brooding look again.… — Diane Duane Copy Share Image
It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. Overnight success is a fallacy. It is preceded by… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It's funny that we think of libraries as quiet demure places where we are shushed by dusty, bun-balancing, bespectacled women. The truth… — Paula Poundstone Copy Share Image
The question is...whether we shall, by whatever means, succeed in reconstituting the natural world as the true terrain of politics, rehabilitating the… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
To design things means to interfere with things: to think of how they might be and to alter how they are. Design… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
My voice is the only material thing in which I can still reveal myself. Go ahead and cut off the hand or… — Abdellatif Laabi Copy Share Image
Here again, there is no tabulation; for us it is left to sacrifice literary charm, and even some accuracy, in order to… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
