Themistocles replied that a man's discourse was like to a rich Persian carpet, the beautiful figures and patterns of which can only… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
I reckon silence more profitable than speech, for? in the words of the Preacher, 'The words of wise men are heard in… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
To understand Hitler's power as a speaker, we must consider that he was not just the bellowing tavern demagogue we always picture,… — Volker Ullrich Copy Share Image
The aim is not to give human beings real goals that warrant belief, and tasks to share in, but to re-establish "belonging,"… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
President Obama gave a speech about healthcare tonight, and yesterday he gave a pep talk to students. He told them that in… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
The endless cycle of idea and action, / Endless invention, endless experiment, / Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness; /… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
Mere unorthodoxy or dissent from the prevailing mores is not to be condemned. The absence of such voices would be a symptom… — Earl Warren Copy Share Image
“The speech lacked soaring cadences or memorable lines, yet it touched on two explosive issues at the finale. He advised Native Americans… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
You say that freedom of utterance is not for time of stress, and I reply with the sad truth that only in… — William Allen White Copy Share Image
Don't have conversations taking place in empty space. Weave in background details of where the action (dialogue is a form of "action")… — Lee Wyndham Copy Share Image
Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears - it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
“There’s no question about freedom of speech when everyone thinks exactly the same and no one says anything out of the accepted… — Keith Harmon Copy Share Image
Gramophone and movies were merely the mechanization of speech and gesture. But the radio and TV were not just the electronification of… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
In dialogue, make sure that your attributives do not awkwardly interrupt a spoken sentence. Place them where the breath would come naturally… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
As soon as the Gospels were written, speech without experience began to dabble with the new facts proposed by the existence of… — Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy Copy Share Image
Brahman is beyond mind and speech, beyond concentration and meditation, beyond the knower, the known and knowledge, beyond even the conception of… — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
Do not speak harshly to any one; those who are spoken to will answer thee in the same way. Angry speech is… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Silent solitude makes true speech possible and personal. If I am not in touch with my own belovedness, then I cannot touch… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Anarchists prepare for social revolution and use every means - speech, writing, or deed, whichever is more to the point; to accelerate… — Johann Most Copy Share Image
No one respects the First Amendment more than I do. People have a right to express their concerns and their hopes and… — Anthony Foxx Copy Share Image
Like many of my friends and colleagues, I can't get enough of Obama news; latest polling, speeches, visits, reaction of world leaders. — Lucy Powell Copy Share Image
Is there a free speech crisis on college campuses? One can certainly make that argument, but that portrayal is at least as… — Bret Weinstein Copy Share Image
Batman had a certain speech pattern that I established because he was always Sherlock Holmes-ian. He was Basil Rathbone. In other words,… — Adam West Copy Share Image
If you say, I'm living in America and I have freedom of speech but I choose not to use it because it's… — Tim Robbins Copy Share Image
Just as typography is human speech translated into what can be read, so photography is the translation of reality into a readable… — Herbert Bayer Copy Share Image
I'm heavily influenced by Edward Ardizzone, how he has people talking in little speech bubbles. I love those. And also Edward Gorey.… — Lynne Rae Perkins Copy Share Image
I can no longer type, so I use TalkingPoint and Dragon Dictate. It's a speech-to-text program, and there's an add-on for talking… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
They said I ignored the drug problem. Well, I gave speeches on drugs, I wrote books on drugs. I did darn near… — Pat Paulsen Copy Share Image
We men do nothing but lie and make ourselves important. Speech was invented for the purpose of magnifying all of our sensations… — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
The solution when you don't like someone's speech is not to silence that person, or that corporation. It's more and louder speech… — Michael Kinsley Copy Share Image
I found myself immediately attracted to Pope John Paul II when, upon his election to the Papacy, his published speeches invariably called… — Robert H. Schuller Copy Share Image
The world is full of CEOs that think that just because they write a memo or they write a letter inside an… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The orator puts off his individuality, and is then most eloquent when most silent. He listens while he speaks, and is a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
During the presidential primaries of 1940, I received a request from the Democratic National Committee to sing God Bless America before the speeches. — Kate Smith Copy Share Image
Governments throughout the English-speaking sphere are creating and then ratcheting the torque on "hate-speech" laws with frightening eagerness. — Jim Goad Copy Share Image
Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but earnestness… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
“Liberty is a constant battle between government; who would limit it, people; who would concede it, and patriots; who would defend it.” — Samuel R. Young Jr Copy Share Image
There were speeches made in Congress in the very last session before the outbreak of the Rebellion, so ferocious as to show… — Edward Everett Copy Share Image
Free Speech in the College Community is a very timely book written by a dedicated scholar of the First Amendment. Challenging and… — Nancy Kassebaum Copy Share Image
