Speech Quotes · Page 29

“Freedom of speech is unnecessary if the people to whom it is granted do not think for themselves.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

One thing that does seem to particularly annoy people is my voice and my very slight, to me unnoticeable, speech impediment.

— Lucy Worsley

I used to stutter really badly. Everybody thinks it's funny. And it's not funny. It's not.

— Joe Biden

“Positive vocabulary is like good soil. By speaking and being positive we can enrich the lives of others.”

— Julius Veal

I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr

To protest free speech in the name of protecting women is dangerous and wrong.

— Betty Friedan

I started doing standup because of Hugh Grant's best-man speech in 'Four Weddings,' which is basically a standup routine.

— Kumail Nanjiani

“In many a case, the phrase ‘I’d like to get to know you better’ is a euphemism for ‘I want us to…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Mr. Greer timed all our speeches with an oven timer. Things were nothing at Tribeca Alternative, considered one of Manhattan's finest prep…

— Meg Cabot

My life - my personality, my habits, even my speech - is a combination of the books I choose to read, the…

— Andy Andrews

Style as a concept has been hijacked to mean elite, refined and expensive when it should be thought of as a basic…

— Scott Schuman

I try to make the voice in my head come out onto the page. I try to make it much more conversational…

— James Frey

It was one of those dangerous moments when speech is at once sincere and deceptive - when feeling, rising high above its…

— George Eliot

All the words in the English language are divided into nine great classes. These classes are called the Parts of Speech. They…

— Joseph Devlin

I haven’t prepared my speech yet,” I sighed and Tove stood up. “What should I say about him?” “Well, if you plan…

— Amanda Hocking

Out of evil comes good, however, and the confusion of tongues gave rise to 'the ancient practice of Masons conversing without the…

— A. E. Waite

“Silence and solitude are universally recognized spiritual practices, and there are good reasons for this. Learning how to discipline your speech is…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Hate speech it seems to be is been defined by the political left as anything we don't like, anything that violates social…

— Milo Yiannopoulos

I fell asleep at my desk many times. This was when working on events—virtually every one I’ve done in the last 5…

— Mike Rinder

Television has accustomed us to brief, intimate, telegraphic, visual, narrative messages. Candidates are learning to act, speak, and think in television's terms.…

— Kathleen Hall Jamieson

“I came into the room, which was half dark, and presently spotted Lord Kelvin in the audience and realised that I was…

— Ernest Rutherford

While we generally believe in free speech and giving everyone as much ability to speak as possible, in practice there are lots…

— Mark Zuckerberg

It all started off with stirring speeches, Greek columns, the thrill of something new. Now all thats left is a presidency adrift,…

— Paul Ryan

In a speech earlier today President Bush said if Iraq gets rid of Saddam Hussein, he will help the Iraqi people with…

— Jay Leno

Few speeches which have produced an electrical effect on an audience can bear the colourless photography of a printed record.

— Anonymous

Without free speech no search for truth is possible... no discovery of truth is useful.

— Charles Bradlaugh

Racism is a form of insanity. Human beings became racist when they started talking. Speech has a lot to do with it.

— Paul Mooney

Cats have a contempt of speech. Why should they talk when they can communicate without words?

— Lilian Jackson Braun

Phocion compared the speeches of Leosthenes to cypress-trees. "They are tall," said he, "and comely, but bear no fruit."

— Plutarch

“One more optional piece of advice: If you ever have to give a speech, start with a joke, if you know one.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

But in love each moment is magnified, and every gesture, word and syllable is examined like a speech by the President.

— Hanif Kureishi

My funny speech wasn't funny. That's not the first time a politician has done that.

— Elizabeth May

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

— Noam Chomsky

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

— Anthony Trollope

It's freeing, to think that there's always an aspect of us outside the grasp of speech, the common stuff of language.

— Mark Doty

“Some people when they see cheese, chocolate or cake they don't think of calories.”

— Amit Kalantri

In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

— George Orwell

The most censored speech in America today is not flag-burning, pornography, or the press.

— Phyllis Schlafly

“Respect cannot be inherited, respect is the result of right actions.”

— Amit Kalantri

“All speech is not necessarily free. People pay a price for speaking up and speaking out.”

— Dana L. Stringer