Speech Quotes · Page 60

I had worked so hard for so long that I developed a speech impediment. It happens when I get tired.

— Tobe Hooper

Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps.

— Ambrose Bierce

The most effective way to combat speech you don’t like is with speech.

— Peter Salovey

The animals have no need for speech, why talk when you are a word.

— Margaret Atwood

Rude am I in my speech, And little blessed with the soft phrase of peace.

— William Shakespeare

“There are occasions when the silence speaks, and speech is silent”

— Tamerlan Kuzgov

Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Tony Blair is paid $500,000 for one speech, and no one asks how he is going to spend it.

— Mo Ibrahim

My speech impediment wasn't a stutter but it was dropping several letters that I just could not say for several years, most…

— Amanda Gorman

In societies where men are truly confident of their own worth, women are not merely tolerated but valued." (From a speech read…

— Aung San Suu Kyi

When you consider what Tony Blair was saying about liberty, human rights and that sort of thing, it would be terribly revolutionary…

— Rory Bremner

“Freedom to believe means the freedom to believe the wrong thing, after all. Just as freedom of speech gives you the right…

— Neil Gaiman

Unfortunately, the media, which are not at all reluctant to act in their own self-interest, have succeeded in equating reform in the…

— James L. Buckley

Hollywood is right. A good and strong movie can have a more powerful social impact than any and all political speeches or…

— Mike Royko

The sublime delight of truthful speech to one who has the great gift of uttering it, will make itself felt even through…

— George Eliot

I never would've imagined in the first part of my life that I could've stood up and said anything. The war in…

— Jane Fonda

The mind of a generation is its speech. A writer makes aspects of that speech enduring by putting them in print. He…

— John Dos Passos

There's a lot about being "A Writer" that has nothing to do with writing. That's one thing I've discovered. You've got to…

— Augusten Burroughs

The area between the nose and the chin, the subject of kissing and the vehicle for speech, is perhaps even more known…

— Robert Genn

Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom; and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of…

— Benjamin Franklin

Fire supposed he needed to be there in order to give rousing speeches and lead the charge into the fray, or whatever…

— Kristin Cashore

(An unhappy childhood was not) an unsuitable preparation for my future, in that it demanded a constant wariness, the habit of observation,…

— Rudyard Kipling

Most of my life I was particularly terrified of speaking up, because I had a speech impediment, which made it difficult to…

— Amanda Gorman

As the organized Left gained cultural power, it turned into a monster that found perpetual victimhood, combined with thought and speech control,…

— Tammy Bruce

First Amendment speech and press rights may also be subordinated to the overriding need to wage war successfully.

— John Yoo

It's a blessing as an artist to express myself - whether that be via dance, via song or via speech - in…

— Bebe Neuwirth

The First Amendment doesn't give anybody the right to be heard. People don't have to listen to you.

— Rush Limbaugh

Contrary to popular belief, a lot of us who have speech impediments are really, really intelligent.

— Curtis Blaydes

The time-deaf are unable to speak what they know. For speech needs a sequence of words, spoken in time.

— Alan Lightman

I fight, and have fought, for political freedom, for justice and for fairness and freedom of speech.

— Teresa Heinz

The most important part of any speech is the people that are listening to it respond to it and appreciate it.

— Jerome Bettis

Painting is just like making an after-dinner speech. If you want to be remembered, say one thing and stop.

— Charles Webster Hawthorne

When they're standing right in front of you, kings are a kind of speech impediment.

— Terry Pratchett

I spent three years at Central School of Speech and Drama in London, which I enjoyed very much.

— Christopher Timothy

No officer, my speech isn't slurred. I'm just talking in cursive.

— Anonymous

I am living with a rising generation which talks like people coming out of ether.

— Margaret Halsey

Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

I don't think we should be deprived of the privilege of free speech

— Loretta Swit

Peace means loyalty to self. ... And loyalty to one's self means never a gap between thought, speech, act.

— Ruth Beebe Hill

The common notion that free speech prevails in the United States always makes me laugh.

— H. L. Mencken