Speech Quotes · Page 57

“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

He [Roosevelt] has made some speeches that indicate that he is going quite beyond anything that he advocated when he was in…

— William Howard Taft

When I heard Puerto Ricans in New York City, it sounded very strange. And the first time I heard someone from Spain,…

— Viggo Mortensen

If you're a kid, it's all you think about if you stutter. Kids can be so mean. My grades suffered. Class participation…

— Kenyon Martin

It is within the established American tradition of satire, if America surrenders on this point, the freedom of speech is a relic…

— Pamela Geller

Each speech having its own character, the poetry it engenders will be peculiar to that speech also in its own intrinsic form.…

— William Carlos Williams

The voice is raised, and that is where poetry begins. And even today, in the prolonged aftermath of modernism, in places where…

— James Fenton

Great orators who are not also great writers become very indistinct shadows to the generations following them. The spell vanishes with the…

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Speeches are for the younger men who are going places. And I'm not going anyplace except six feet under the floor of…

— Anonymous

Poetry is one of the most fugitive arts: it can be assigned to memory, taken and hidden in the mind, smuggled into…

— Eavan Boland

“And I saw just the other day, in Mentor, Ohio, where a father told the story of his 8-year-old daughter, whose long…

— Barack Obama

With support jobs moving to China and India, it's not surprising that English-speaking countries' top frustration revolves around the difficulty of understanding…

— Bob Hayes

Prior to going to college, I had a pretty strong accent, and that was one of the things I had to work…

— Chris Parnell

I made a very concerted decision to go to drama school in the United States. But I did have the opportunity to…

— Kate Burton

The most noble and profitable invention of all other, was that of SPEECH, consisting of Names or Appellations, and their Connexion; whereby…

— Thomas Hobbes

I cannot write in verse, for I am no poet. I cannot arrange the parts of speech with such art as to…

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

My feeling is that the Supreme Court reached a reasonable standard of protection of speech in the 1960s, a standard higher than…

— Noam Chomsky

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

I think Thomas Jefferson would have said the more speech, the better.

— Antonin Scalia

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

— Dana L. Stringer

I worked on one speech about the financial system that caused the Dow to drop, like, 200 points.

— Jon Lovett

Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding.

— George Savile

There is a fine line between free speech and hate speech. Free speech encourages debate whereas hate speech incites violence.

— Newton Lee

I believe in poetic discourse, in the value of speech in a non-naturalistic way; it's speculative.

— Howard Barker

I'd rather die on my feet making a speech than die of Alzheimer's - and that's what I'm planning to do.

— Tony Benn

“Free speech is the right to shout 'theater' in a crowded fire.”

— Abbie Hoffman

The freedom of speech is an important yardstick for a society's level of civilization.

— Ai Weiwei

Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature 2 stop speech when words become superfluous.

— Unkown

It is not so much freedom of speech but the right to truth that great men protect.

— Criss Jami

The child takes most of his nature of the mother, besides speech, manners, and inclination.

— Herbert Spencer

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

— Lucy Worsley