Speech Quotes · Page 100

During an election campaign the air is full of speeches and vice versa.

— Henry Adams

In a dream I saw Jesus and My God Pan sitting together in the heart of the forest. They laughed at each…

— Khalil Gibran

When both a speaker and an audience are confused, the speech is profound.

— Oscar Wilde

No man not inspired can make a good speech without preparation.

— Daniel Webster

Reachable, near and not lost, there remained in the midst of the losses this one thing: language. It, the language, remained, not…

— Paul Celan

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

— Alan Lightman

I detest my fellow-beings and do not feel that I am their fellow at all

— Gustave Flaubert

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

— Scott Adams

When you're standing in front of an audience like this that is so enthusiastic and so much behind you, it is very…

— Susan Estrich

The light of Christ illuminates the laboratory, his speech is the fount of communication, he makes possible the study of humans in…

— Mark Noll

I never plan my speech. Very often the audience triggers me into the mood.

— Balachandra Menon

There has been in our time a lack of reliance on language and a lack of experimentation which are frightening to anyone…

— Muriel Rukeyser

To take arms against a sea of troubles.

— William Shakespeare

I think freedom of speech is important, but coupled with responsibility.

— Brandon Boyd

When I was 6 I became the poster child for my hospital and would go to banquets and make speeches. I did…

— Atticus Shaffer

The true call of the desert, of the mountains, or the sea, is their silence - free of the networks of dead…

— Freya Stark

Free speech is the cornerstone to every right we have.

— Mark Thomas

I feel like I'm losing my ability to understand reality; like when someone loses their hearing, they can still speak English, but…

— David Chang

I give speeches at megachurches across America, and the one thing that's really striking about it is how utterly, completely diverse they…

— Ann Coulter

Only time [JF] Kennedy made any, took any action to even look like he identified with negroes was when he was forced…

— Malcolm X

A liberal was somebody who expected and hoped that government would help the poor - you know, that whole routine. I did…

— Nat Hentoff

The basis of democratic freedom is freedom of speech.

— Aung San Suu Kyi

The US constitution's First Amendment rights only cover Americans, but I believe that in a democracy the competition of ideas and free…

— Joichi Ito

We walked always in beauty, it seemed to me. We walked and looked about, or stood and looked. Sometimes, less often, we…

— Wendell Berry

I've discovered this new electronic technique that creates new speech out of stuff that's already there.

— Brian Eno