You watch the Supreme Court in action on these cases, and they are a conflicted court. However, when it comes to speech… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
...a figure of speech can often get into a crack too small for a definition. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Someone heroic and valiant, not merely skilled in speech; someone who is kind and pure in heart. Someone who does not play… — Sarah Mally Copy Share Image
“It’s quite simple," she says, while Rosentreter wonders, not without anxiety, whether she can read his thoughts. "You draw air into your… — Juli Zeh Copy Share Image
I played Thersites and I remember we were also doing some places out of town before starting our run at The Old… — Matt Lucas Copy Share Image
We have to look at the figures of speech a writer uses, his images and symbols, to realize that underneath all the… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
In laboring to be concise, I become obscure. [Lat., Brevis esse laboro, obscurus fio.] — Horace Copy Share Image
There is no traitor like him whose domestic treason plants the poniard within the breast that trusted to his truth — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
In the US the problem has been, for instance, that Nazis have rights of free expression, right? But other kinds of racist… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
The corporate scandals are getting bigger and bigger. In a speech on Wall Street, President Bush spoke out on corporate responsibility, and… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
Speech belongs half to the speaker, half to the listener. The latter must prepare to receive it according to the motion it… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
It's funny that we think of libraries as quiet demure places where we are shushed by dusty, bun-balancing, bespectacled women. The truth… — Paula Poundstone Copy Share Image
A good argument diluted to avoid criticism is not nearly as good as the undiluted argument, because we best arrive at truth… — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
Words are the weak support of cold indifference; love has no language to be heard. — William Congreve Copy Share Image
He that would speak Divine things in a language which living men of to-day can comprehend, must keep up with the researches… — John H. Vincent Copy Share Image
“Does any one suppose that private prayer is necessarily candid—necessarily goes to the roots of action? Private prayer is inaudible speech, and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Free speech, free press, free religion, the right of free assembly, yes, the right of petition... well, they are still radical ideas. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
The right to enjoy property without unlawful deprivation, no less that the right to speak out or the right to travel is,… — Potter Stewart Copy Share Image
The most noble and profitable invention of all other, was that of SPEECH, consisting of Names or Appellations, and their Connexion; whereby… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Dying, we tell ourselves, is like going to sleep. This figure of speech occurs very commonly in everyday thought and language, as… — Raymond Moody Copy Share Image
With tears running down her face, Cecily had reminded him of the moment at her wedding to Gabriel when he had delivered… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“Good speakers usually find when they finish that there have been four versions of the speech: the one they delivered, the one… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
