When they're standing right in front of you, kings are a kind of speech impediment. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The truth is libraries are raucous clubhouses for free speech, controversy and community. — Paula Poundstone Copy Share Image
Language is an impure medium. Speech is public property and words are the soiled products, not of nature, but of society, which… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“Do not meddle with Gnani’s words. To do so carries grave liability. If just one word is absorbed and ‘digested’, it will… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Writing seems to rob me of my being: it is a second hand mode of communication, a pallid, mechanical transcript of speech,… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
I am committed to cultivating loving speech and deep listening in order to bring joy and happiness to others and relieve others… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
We sit and talk quietly, with long lapses of silence, and I am aware of the stream that has no language, coursing… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
The line is a way of framing poetry. All verse is measured by lines. The poetic line immediately announces its difference from… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed… — Timothy Garton Ash Copy Share Image
Our legislators have become a set of "whores" open to the highest bidders. The problem is that if we try to limit… — Philip Kotler Copy Share Image
To make love is to become like this infant again. We grope with our mouths toward the body of another being, whom… — Susan Griffin Copy Share Image
“What does syadvad (speech that does not hurt the ego of any living being) speech say? Speak in such a way that… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
I've always felt, even as a songwriter, that the rhythm of speech is in itself a language for me. — Cyndi Lauper Copy Share Image
Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
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
I became simply a pair of eyes, staring through my mask at Char. I needed no ears because I was too far… — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
The First Amendment of the US Constitution ... is an eloquent repudiation of the First Commandment's prohibition of religious freedom. It is… — Frank Zindler Copy Share Image
Condoleezza Rice, the national security adviser, is right there... she's in town because her father was at Johnson Smith College... and she… — Al Michaels Copy Share Image
'This is how democracy works,' Barack Obama lectured the country before giving everyone the specifics of his expansive one-man executive overreach on… — David Harsanyi Copy Share Image
One could construe the life of man as a great discourse in which the various people represent different parts of speech (the… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Even today, when an Aboriginal mother notices the first stirrings of speech in her child, she lets it handle the things of… — Bruce Chatwin Copy Share Image
