Speech Quotes · Page 54

Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech.

— Terry Eagleton

The true call of the desert, of the mountains, or the sea, is their silence - free of the networks of dead…

— Freya Stark

Fighting is an expression. It's a form of speech, and that's why they call it martial arts. It's an art.

— Chael Sonnen

No human speech comes without error, if it does come without error, then it is God speaking.

— Terry Mark

One man's blasphemy doesn't override other people's free-speech rights, their freedom to publish, freedom of thought.

— Dan Savage

Protected free speech has boundaries, and one boundary is fraud.

— Sheldon Whitehouse

I talked to women who lived there, to get their speech patterns and outlook on life - and how narrow that is.

— Ellen Burstyn

Speech may be silver but silence is golden. Traders with the golden touch do not talk about their success.

— Linda Bradford Raschke

“He had a voice you couldn't miss: strong and penetrating with strange vowels that sounded different from the accents of other English…

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man…

— Anonymous

If we are not most careful with our thoughts and speech, the words we use will use us. Language has its own…

— Ted E. Brewerton

I first got into acting when I was about 12. I started doing speech and drama lessons. All my friends were doing…

— Bella Heathcote

We need to be I think equally sensitive to the injurious power of certain kinds of speech acts but also to the…

— Judith Butler

In fact, anybody else who hears this [speech of Donald Trump in Philadelphia] is probably gonna be dutifully impressed with Trump's comportment,…

— Rush Limbaugh

“Do not meddle with Gnani’s words. To do so carries grave liability. If just one word is absorbed and ‘digested’, it will…

— Dada Bhagwan

Many [most] of Ivanka's [Trump] ideals are the platform of the democratic party. Her father [Donald Trump] has never mentioned anything she…

— Chrissy Teigen

It's so easy to use tired, shopworn figures of speech. I love using long, fancy words but have learned - mostly from…

— Gretchen Rubin

Often it is hard. So hard, in fact, that Jesus' decree to love and pray for our opponents is regarded as one…

— Lee Strobel

Among all the accomplishments of youth there is none preferable to a decent and agreeable behavior among men, a modest freedom of…

— Isaac Watts

The America of Obama's dreams is not the one of self-reliance and entrepreneurship to which he paid phony lip service at the…

— David Limbaugh

“I try to think of things to say but nothing comes, and if something did come I probably couldn’t say it. This…

— Isaac Marion

“We’ve searched all of the homes and carried the food to Ralph’s,” Sam continued. “The problem is that all the fruit and…

— Michael Grant

By failing to read or listen to poets, society dooms itself to inferior modes of articulation, those of the politician, the salesman,…

— Joseph Brodsky

The perfection of style consists in the use of the exact speech necessary to convey the sense in the fewest words consistent…

— Joseph P. Bradley

Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to…

— Gaston Bachelard

Doing motivational speeches and stuff like that, that's always made me feel good.

— Keke Palmer

Writing an acceptance speech gives you the expectation of winning, and you are therefore devastated or hurt if you didn't win.

— William Shatner

“Rich can live better than poor but they cannot live without poor.”

— Amit Kalantri

“When ownership of speech ends, there is the end of ‘us’ (relative self).”

— Dada Bhagwan

Some subjects come up suddenly in our speech and cannot be silenced.

— Mason Cooley

Unity is not found in the hateful speech of Congresswomen Ilhan Omar and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez or Congressman Bobby Rush.

— Brian Mast

You never write a speech in advance because if you don't get to use it, you'll be heartbroken.

— Octavia Spencer

“Take care of your costume and your confidence will take care of itself.”

— Amit Kalantri

We speak not only to tell other people what we think, but to tell ourselves what we think. Speech is a part…

— Oliver Sacks

When making a speech, most people will only remember the first and last parts. If these are good, the entire speech is…

— Maria Micah Rosales

Speaking is a beautiful folly; with that man dances over all things.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The fountain is my speech. The tulips are my speech. The grass and trees are my speech.

— George T. Delacorte Jr

“The One whose body, mind and speech become saiyamit (under his control), He Himself has become the absolute Self (Parmatma)!”

— Dada Bhagwan

IN MY NERVOUSNESS FOR THIS SPEECH AND MY MOMENTS OF DOUBT, I'VE TOLD MYSELF FIRMLY, 'IF NOT ME, WHO? IF NOT NOW,…

— Emma Watson

While my speech is getting better every day, throughout my recovery, I have been able to sing to some extent.

— Gabrielle Giffords