Speech Quotes · Page 61

When speech is divorced from speaker and word from meaning, what is left is just ritual, language as ritual.

— Ellen Goodman

There were periods during my childhood when I stammered so badly I couldn't talk at all.

— Edward Hoagland

In his tub-thumping speech at the 2008 Republican National Convention, Romney sounded like the hedge-fund tycoon he is.

— Stephen Kinzer

One sign of an excellent speech? 'Can people repeat something they heard, word for word?'

— Sam Horn

People go on about my speech but I've always had a speech impediment.

— James Toney

“Dresses won't worn out in the wardrobe, but that is not what dresses are designed for.”

— Amit Kalantri

Let us say what we feel, and feel what we say; let speech harmonize with life.

— Anonymous

It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.

— Joseph Campbell

It is Barack Obama who is at war with this country. Recent events prove it. This is not a cliche. It's not…

— Rush Limbaugh

“a radical departure from what has been settled First Amendment law.” In a lengthy dissent, he argued that the Constitution’s framers had…

— Jane Mayer

The source of all unhappiness is other people. As soon as you learn to think of other people as noisy furniture, the…

— Scott Adams

“You don't know about falling off cliffs, Prep­pie,' she said. 'You never fell off one in your god­damn life.' 'Yeah,' I said,…

— Erich Segal

Within a few years a simple and inexpensive device, readily carried about, will enable one to receive on land or sea the…

— Nikola Tesla

The net effect of Clarence Darrow's great speech yesterday seemed to be precisely the same as if he had bawled it up…

— H. L. Mencken

Commencement oratory must eschew anything that smacks of partisan politics, political preference, sex, religion or unduly firm opinion. Nonetheless, there must be…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Your patience would fail you if I should continue to relate all the disrespectful speeches and treatment which your servants have been…

— Peter Stuyvesant

Kennedy was significantly different than Eisenhower before him, and different from Johnson after him. So those three years were the beginning of…

— Oliver Stone

Love myself I do. Not everything, but I love the good as well as the bad. I love my crazy lifestyle, and…

— Johnny Weir

Our bodies, speeches and minds need to be trained so that they will do anything we want. We can cry or laugh…

— Ching Hai

I support people having a gun in public full stop, not just in your home. We don't have the right to bear…

— Vince Vaughn

A layman will no doubt find it hard to understand how pathological disorders of the body and mind can be eliminated by…

— Sigmund Freud

I begin to feel like I was in the last generation of Americans who took a civics class. I begin to feel…

— Roger Ebert

Our spirit is back, but we haven't reinstitutionalized it. We've got to do a better job of getting across that America is…

— Ronald Reagan

As quiet as I am I find it amazing I can stand in front of hundreds of people now and make a…

— Jennifer Yuh Nelson

In a good play every speech should be as fully flavored as a nut or apple.

— John Millington Synge

How odd that the proponents of free expression think 'free' only applies to them.

— Greg Gutfeld

Freedom of speech encompasses precisely the freedom to annoy, to ridicule, and to offend.

— Robert Spencer

You can't give any exciting speech without misremembering things.

— Lena Dunham

Speech remains as a slave to you, but the moment it leaves your mouth, you become its slave.

— Anonymous

“I don't have an English accent because this is what English sounds like when spoken properly.”

— Jimmy Carr

In the faculty of speech man excels the brute; but if thou utterest what is improper, the brute is they superior.

— Saadi

I don't think we should view corporations as people for the purposes of speech.

— Scott Peters

Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech.

— Charles Bradlaugh

There is at least as much eloquence in the voice, eyes, and air of a speaker as in his choice of words.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“I'm Valerie Rye,' she said, savoring the words. 'It's all right for you to talk to me.”

— Octavia E. Butler

“The right to free speech and the unrealistic expectation to never be offended can not coexist.”

— Philip Sharp

I am more proud of Hillary Clinton's alt-right speech than any other moment on the campaign trail.

— Jennifer Palmieri

A ban on a class of arms is not an 'incidental' regulation. It is equivalent to a ban on a category of…

— Brett Kavanaugh

When you give a speech you don't go through a laundry list, you talk about the things that you think are important.

— Mitt Romney

Events don't happen because I write a speech. I am allowed to write a speech because events are going to happen.

— David Frum