My parents spent a lot of money so I wouldn't sound like I came from Queens. I went to speech class. — Peter Marino Copy Share Image
Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening. — Dorothy Sarnoff Copy Share Image
The American people, I am convinced, really detest free speech. At the slightest alarm they are ready and eager to put it… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Trust me, I have never written a speech in my life, and if I have my way, I never will. — Curt Schilling Copy Share Image
Sarah Palin gave a speech in South Korea. Just what the Koreans needed: Two crazy dictators in fashionable lady's glasses. — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“He who sacrifices his respect for love basically burns his body to obtain the light.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
It is without doubt that freedoms of the press and speech need to be protected, but there are undisputed limits to these… — Charles B. Rangel Copy Share Image
Nonviolence is not just abstention from war, fighting, or animal flesh. It is abstention from negative thoughts and negative speech. — Nathaniel Altman Copy Share Image
During a campaign speech in Ohio, President Obama said, 'I wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouth'. So to be… — Fred Thompson Copy Share Image
The greatest fears that governments have are freedom of speech and exposing the corruptness, the ineptitude, and the double dealing going on… — Gerald Celente Copy Share Image
To be free from all egoistic motive, careful of truth in speech and action, void of self-will and self-assertion, watchful in all… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
In art, in taste, in life, in speech, you decide from feeling, and not from reason ... If we were obliged to… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Today President Obama gave a major speech where he defended his handling of the economy. And there were tons of people in… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
That is why, as one who values the U.S. - Israel relationship, and loves Israel, I was near tears throughout the Prime… — Nancy Pelosi Copy Share Image
In speech after speech on his health care plan, the President has tried to convince us that what he is proposing will… — Scott Brown Copy Share Image
“This happened back east of course. I've heard that term a lot since coming to this part of the country. But I… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
All fear of 'offensive' speech is bourgeois and reactionary. Historically, profane or bawdy language was common in both the upper and the… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The thing is, autism is all different, you know, variables. And you start out with a certain amount of, you know, the… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
“Language, the homeland and receptacle of beauty and meaning, itself begins to think and speak for man and turns wholly into music,… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
Money is speech. It's incongruous to say a multimillionaire can spend as much on his own campaign as he wants, but you… — Roger Stone Copy Share Image
What is Americanization? It manifests itself, in a superficial way, when the immigrant adopts the clothes, the manners and the customs generally… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
Speeches in our culture are the vacuum that fills a vacuum. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
That which is repeated too often becomes insipid and tedious. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Copy Share Image