Speech Quotes · Page 51

Humans are still much better than computers at recognizing speech.

— Geoffrey Hinton

The six great gifts of an Irish girl are beauty, soft voice, sweet speech, wisdom, needlework, and chastity.

— Theodore Roosevelt

“In a noisy place I can’t understand speech, because I cannot screen out the background noise.”

— Temple Grandin

I generally feel that the solution to speech that people find offensive is more speech. You should talk about it, discuss it.

— Jake Tapper

Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.

— Abbie Hoffman

The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Ownership of speech is the greatest ego. Ownership of the body prevails naturally, but the main self prevails in speech.”

— Dada Bhagwan

“We had the whole 'when you assume you make an ass out of you and me' speech in school.”

— Jonathan Maberry

In so far as it takes effect at all, pacifist propaganda can only be effective against those countries where a certain amount…

— George Orwell

The ancient media of speech and song and theater were radically reshaped by writing, though they were never entirely supplanted, a comfort…

— Alison Gopnik

The Founding Fathers' instructions were clear: The right to free speech includes bad speech; it means tolerance of ideas that many find…

— David Ignatius

The freedom of speech of private individuals includes the right to not agree, not to listen, and not to finance one's own…

— Ayn Rand

Rising prices or wages do not cause inflation; they only report it. They represent an essential form of economic speech, sincemoney isjust…

— Walter Wriston

Truth is his inspirer, and earnestness the polisher of his sentences. He could afford to lose his Sharp's rifles, while he retained…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Nevertheless, no other speech proved “so effective, none so full of character and none which found so responsive an audience. It carried…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“I launched into my speech, it took me a few seconds to realize that the only one listening was max (the dog)…

— Sammi Carter

I found the speech, after listening to it in context, vile in manner, repugnant, malicious, mean-spirited and spoken in mockery of individuals…

— Louis Farrakhan

Courage is the virtue that President Kennedy most admired. He sought out those people who had demonstrated in some way, whether it…

— Robert Kennedy

I've always enjoyed hiding behind these characters. It's a strange thing, you're more comfortable as a character than you are in life.…

— Johnny Depp

To educate the masses politically does not mean, cannot mean, making a political speech. What it means is to try, relentlessly and…

— Frantz Fanon

I want to walk the red carpet at the Oscars. I am in awe of the ceremony, and winning an Oscar would…

— Karan Johar

The spoken discourse may roll on strongly as the great tidal wave; but, like the wave, it dies at last feebly on…

— Albert Pike

Tabloids invoke freedom of speech, but they're not interested in that, they're just interested in who's shagging whom, who's got drunk. And…

— Jarvis Cocker

The radicals...want speech regulated by codes that proscribe certain language. They see free speech as at best a delusion, at worst a…

— Russell Jacoby

The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.

— Anonymous

I would not be able to sleep at night and I would practice my Grammys speech. That was definitely me.

— Gabriella Wilson

Silence is a figure of speech, unanswerable, short, cold, but terribly severe.

— Theodore Parker

How many people saw Arnold's speech last night? I haven't seen that many Kennedys in one place since their last trial.

— David Letterman

Israel is a country that respects freedom - freedom of assembly, freedom of speech and freedom of worship.

— George Pataki

Eloquent speech is not from lip to ear, but rather from heart to heart.

— William Jennings Bryan

“Making a product is just an activity, making a profit on a product is the achievement.”

— Amit Kalantri

Mum would have a panic attack if she had to stand up and give a speech around a table.

— Lily James

People don't know. People are ignorant. They feel that if you stutter, then you're slow or whatnot.

— Kenyon Martin

Free speech is not just free speech for people you admire. It's also for people who you think of as reprehensible.

— Salman Rushdie

The child begins to perceive the world not only through his [or her] eyes but also through his [or her] speech

— Lev S. Vygotsky

The speech of one who knows what he is talking about and means what he says-it is thought on fire.

— William Jennings Bryan

They tell me, Lord, that when I seem To be in speech with you. Since but one voice is heard, it

— C. S. Lewis

The threat or fear of violence should not become an excuse or justification for restricting freedom of speech.

— Alan Dershowitz

America is a country where they have freedom of speech but everyone says the same thing.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

[Louis Brandeis] believes in natural rights of speech and liberty and the right to pursue happiness.

— Jeffrey Rosen