I think the first little jolt I got was reading Gerard Manley Hopkins - I liked other poems... but Hopkins was kind… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
The speech of one who utters with his tongue what he thinks with his ear, and feels the pride of a creator… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
A lot of people would flee from what they think is award-show cheesiness, and I don't. I often joke that my speeches… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
This Ariyan Eightfold Path, that is to say: Right view, right aim, right speech, right action, right living, right effort, right mindfulness,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Humans abhor a vacuum. The immediate filling of a vacuum is one of the basic functions of speech. Meaningless conversations are no… — Lidiya Ginzburg Copy Share Image
“Free speech is a sign of a strong first-person plural, which enables people who disagree over fundamental things to live together in… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Do you know what I think white people wholly own? I think freedom of speech is a white thing. This is something… — David Duke Copy Share Image
I never had a speech from my father 'this is what you must do or shouldn't do' but I just learned to… — Adam Sandler Copy Share Image
There comes a day of public ceremonial, and a chance to make a speech… A million voters with IQs below 60 have… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
It should be clear by now that my focus here is not freedom of speech or the press. This freedom is all… — Mark Lloyd Copy Share Image
I wouldn't mind gigging around the same era as Jesus, after he gives his speech about the meek and how blessed they… — Jim Jefferies Copy Share Image
The Ogre does what ogres can, Deeds quite impossible for Man, But one prize is beyond his reach: The Ogre cannot master… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In its essence, Martin Luther King Jr.'s ‘I Have a Dream' speech is one citizen's soul-searing plea with his countrymen––Whites and Blacks––to… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
“Our citizens must act as Americans; not as Americans with a prefix and qualifications; not as Irish-Americans, German-Americans, native Americans—but as Americans… — Mary Beth Smith Copy Share Image
It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple; one must be woman-manly or man-womanly. It is fatal for… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Curiously, it is hard not to be a little optimistic about the future for Zimbabwe (as nobody at all calls it yet,… — Simon Hoggart Copy Share Image
A sentence well couched takes both the sense and understanding. I love not those cart-rope speeches that are longer than the memory… — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
Maybe poets express more directly a sense of sympathy for other human beings. Painting is a little bit more of a retreat… — Francesco Clemente Copy Share Image
In 2004, I went to Israel and gave a speech that resulted in guns and ammunition being given to the South Sudanese… — Kola Boof Copy Share Image
I adored being at the RSC and working on the verse and getting the iambic pentameter right. You just skim across the… — Richard McCabe Copy Share Image
“Freedom of speech is not simply a freedom to think and say what you wish, but to speak for yourself, to speak… — Ian McCallum Copy Share Image
“He made an impassioned speech about man fading in the shadow of the machine, losing our individual rights as our computer technology… — David A. Goodman Copy Share Image
Humans have changed little over time. We think we've invented the modern world but they were making better speeches 2,000 years ago… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
You can't be selective about freedom of speech. If you say you believe in freedom of speech you have to acknowledge the… — George Brandis Copy Share Image
Freedom of expression is tested during times of anger and conflict and enables all opinions and outraged expressions of dissent that we… — Yair Lapid Copy Share Image
It's a useful rule in Anglo-American communications that the English should double, and the Americans halve, the number of words they would… — Phyllis Bentley Copy Share Image
But please know, whether you believe campaign contributions are speech or property, that I learned to love very dearly the right of… — John McCain Copy Share Image
There is nothing wrong with my health. Who doesn't forget things from time-to-time? Who out there has never stuttered or slurred a… — Mark Hunt Copy Share Image
If you can come up with a snappy little slogan, then you have a future in winning tagline competitions or being a… — Mark Victor Hansen Copy Share Image
You are solidified silence, awareness. A thousand hours of speech cannot equal one glance: a hundred glances cannot equal a minute of… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
A nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics, because comics are a natural target whenever an election… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
When I was 6 I became the poster child for my hospital and would go to banquets and make speeches. I did… — Atticus Shaffer Copy Share Image
Bill and Hillary Clinton are married, so under the law, paying him for a speech is like giving money directly to her… — Tom Fitton Copy Share Image
Students throughout the totalitarian world risk life and limb for freedom of expression, many American college students are demanding that big brother… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
Thought and speech are of a thinking and speaking subject, and if the life of the latter depends on the performance of… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
I am a technological activist. I have a political agenda. I am in favor of basic human rights: to free speech, to… — Bram Cohen Copy Share Image
Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same. Gossip is the… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
The right to discuss freely and openly, by speech, by the pen, by the press, all political questions, and to examine the… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
Ere you lie down to sleep in the night, sit still awhile, and nurse again to life your gentler self. Forget the… — Max Ehrmann Copy Share Image
I grew up with an absolutely horrible, debilitating stutter, and it was what caused me to retreat into myself and caused me… — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
![“I wouldn't mind gigging around the same era as Jesus, after he gives his speech about the meek and how blessed they are and all that type of bullshit, going up there and doing a flat 20 [minutes]. I reckon I'd have better stagecraft and presence than Jesus. Yea, I'm a better stand-up comedian than…” quote by Jim Jefferies](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/0fb/jim-jefferies-8092_blessed_i-wouldn-t-mind-gigging-around-the-same_24477.jpg)
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