During the presidential primaries of 1940, I received a request from the Democratic National Committee to sing God Bless America before the speeches. — Kate Smith Copy Share Image
Bopha, Sandy, floods in Pakistan, droughts in China… How many reports from the likes of the World Bank, NASA and the International… — Steven Guilbeault Copy Share Image
Rude am I in my speech, And little blessed with the soft phrase of peace. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
It is amazing how much a thought expands and refines by being put into speech: I should think it could hardly know… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
Sarah Palin uses me as a laugh line in her stump speeches. If you're willing to turn me into a joke, you… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
We owe to democracy, at least in part, the regime of discussion with which we live; we owe it to the principal… — Gaetano Mosca Copy Share Image
Speech recognition is utterly crap for writing fiction. If you try reading a novel aloud you'll soon figure out why - written… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
Few people...have had much training in listening. The training of most oververbalized professional intellectuals is in the opposite direction. Living in a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
'Why' is a question no animal can ask, because both the question and answers require speech. Have you ever seen an animal… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
Mad; adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence; not conforming to standards of thought, speech, and action derived by the… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Right. And our first job is to teach her to give a speech on the Grand Balcony in three days.” “That does… — Michael J. Sullivan Copy Share Image
Liberty of conscience is nowadays only understood to be the liberty of believing what men please, but also of endeavoring to propagate… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Idiot - A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling. The… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
In societies where men are truly confident of their own worth women are not merely "tolerated", they are valued. — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
Those who directed the state in the time of Solon and Cleisthenes did not establish a polity which ... trained the citizens… — Isocrates Copy Share Image
I suppose no one is as handsome or as beautiful as he or she wishes, or as brilliant in school or as… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
People ask me if I miss the States. I miss African Americans. But not the U.S. government or all the things they… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
Looking to Donald Trump`s immigration speech can he hang onto his base if he softens his stance on the issue that got… — Steve Kornacki Copy Share Image
If the whole world should agree to speak nothing but truth, what an abridgment it would make of speech! And what an… — Washington Allston Copy Share Image
Events don't happen because I write a speech. I am allowed to write a speech because events are going to happen. — David Frum Copy Share Image
In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better. — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
I found myself immediately attracted to Pope John Paul II when, upon his election to the Papacy, his published speeches invariably called… — Robert H. Schuller Copy Share Image
