In the world of commercial speech, tobacco advertising bears the earmarks of an endangered species. — Jef I. Richards Copy Share Image
Mere unorthodoxy or dissent from the prevailing mores is not to be condemned. The absence of such voices would be a symptom… — Earl Warren Copy Share Image
Speak only endearing speech, speech that is welcomed. Speech, when it brings no evil to others, is pleasant. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech. — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“When ownership of speech ends, there is the end of ‘us’ (relative self).” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
[My] interest as a writer is not in reflecting actual human speech, which, of course, does not occur in sentences and is… — John Green Copy Share Image
When I was in New York after I left the Army, I studied for two years at the American Theater Wing, studied… — James Earl Jones Copy Share Image
If the oarsmen of a fast-moving ship suddenly cease to row, the suspension of the driving force of the oars doesn't prevent… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Body language is a very powerful tool. We had body language before we had speech, and apparently, 80% of what you understand… — Deborah Bull Copy Share Image
I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Even relatively tolerant countries fine and jail people for expressing heterodox views. America uniquely protects speech. — Michael J. Knowles Copy Share Image
When you speak to any, especially of quality, look them full in the face; other gestures betraying want of breeding, confidence, or… — Frances Osborne Copy Share Image
Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same. Gossip is the… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
Barack Obama's convention speech in 2004 had made him a political star, and he arrived in Iowa to crowds unseen in caucus history. — John Dickerson Copy Share Image
For just as some women are said to be handsome though without adornment, so this subtle manner of speech, though lacking in… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
As medium for reaching understanding, speech acts serve: a) to establish and renew interpersonal relations, whereby the speaker takes up a relation… — Jurgen Habermas Copy Share Image
Each decision - to kill, to sign a petition, to write a letter, to make a speech, to attack, to lie, to… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
Why do you think great leaders and great orations are coincident with wars, revolutions, and the founding or ending of governments and… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
Some people only speak of freedom of speech while they're out of power. Once they're in power, they're ruthless in suppressing the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I have a speech impediment because I slur a lot, and they even make fun of me on 'Cougar Town' because there's… — Ian Gomez Copy Share Image
The theory of free speech, that truth is so much larger and stranger and more many-sided than we know of, that it… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Say it again,” he says. “That whole drawn-out speech?” I remember something about a solar system, but I’m too light-headed to recite… — Simone Elkeles Copy Share Image
For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of adding a… — Eugenio Montale Copy Share Image