I never plan my speech. Very often the audience triggers me into the mood. — Balachandra Menon Copy Share Image
Oh my God, you guys, I seriously do not have a speech prepared whatsoever. I'm shaking right now. — Christina Aguilera Copy Share Image
Speech was given to the ordinary sort of men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it. — Robert South Copy Share Image
“All right, we've heard your liberty speech. Does that include us or doesn't it?” — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
“I should think a dead language would be rather boring, socially speaking.” — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, to foreign nations, and to the next ages. — Francis Bacon Sr Copy Share Image
Truth is not so threadbare as speech, because fewer people can make use of it. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
It's hard to believe President George Bush gave a speech in New Orleans about disaster recovery and failed to mention the word… — Jim Hightower Copy Share Image
For many Americans the term 'speech code' sends shivers up the spine. Yet these noxious and un-American codes have become commonplace on… — Kirsten Powers Copy Share Image
Human language can but imperfectly describe God's ways. I am sensible of the fact that they are indescribable and inscrutable. But if… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
One unexpectedly striking moment, when Tom Amandes as Lincoln, recites the Gettysburg Address, not in booming, this-is-a-great-speech style, but casually, as if… — Neil Genzlinger Copy Share Image
What we call the freedom of the individual is not just the luxury of one intellectual to write what he likes to… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people's idea of it is… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I will try and remember always to approach God in secret with as much reverence in speech, posture, and behavior as in… — David Livingstone Copy Share Image
EVERY intention which does not assert itself by deeds is a vain intention, and the speech which expresses it is idle speech.… — Eliphas Levi Copy Share Image
The Republican nominee-to-be, of course, is also a young man. But his approach is as old as McKinley. His party is the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The biblical authors wrote of God's sovereignty over His world, and of man's experiences within that world, using such modes of speech… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
Whatever may be the sociological value of the legal fiction that 'all men are born free and equal,' there can be no… — Earnest Hooton Copy Share Image
On the 31st of October 2011 year, I had a mini-stroke. I couldn't finish my sentences. So I went to the doctor.… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
Let the entire world hear me. Our hostility to the Great Satan [America] is absolute... I conclude my speech with the slogan… — Hassan Nasrallah Copy Share Image
Our First Amendment expresses a far different calculus for regulating speech than for regulating nonexpressive conduct and that is as it should… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
In liberal society we claim that freedom of speech is sacred and therefore has an absolute character. But we know (or should… — Talal Asad Copy Share Image
It is the freedom to blaspheme, to transgress, to move beyond the pale, that is at the heart of all intellectual, artistic… — Kenan Malik Copy Share Image
I had a terrible stammering problem when I was young, and as a result I spent a lot of time alone. — Ken Venturi Copy Share Image
More have repented speech then silence. [More have repented speech than silence.] — George Herbert Copy Share Image
When you have well thought out your subject, words will come spontaneously. — Horace Copy Share Image
I have been a lifelong stutterer, and when I was young, I experienced some very difficult times. — Frank Wolf Copy Share Image
Speech is the golden harvest that followeth the flowering of thought. — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
God has given us speech in order that we may say pleasant things to our friends, and tell bitter truths to our… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
In societies where men are truly confident of their own worth women are not merely "tolerated", they are valued. — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
The prohibition of L'shon Hara is the Jewish equivalent of the Buddhist practice of Right Speech. — Sylvia Boorstein Copy Share Image
“Freedom of speech means setting words free. Imprisoned and freed words are consequential. All words have consequences.” — John R. Dallas Jr Copy Share Image
I've discovered this new electronic technique that creates new speech out of stuff that's already there. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
The cold, increased by the tremendous speed, deprived them of the power of speech. — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
I don't make speeches. I just let my bat speak for me in the summertime. — Honus Wagner Copy Share Image
Let me say and not mourn: the world lives in the death of speech and sings there. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image