Silence is a figure of speech, unanswerable, short, cold, but terribly severe. — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
A dream is always simmering below the conventional surface of speech and reflection. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech. — Richard Darman Copy Share Image
Speech that leads not to action, still more that hinders it, is a nuisance on the earth. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
A speech is something you say so as to distract attention from what you do not say. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
College campuses have become fascist colonies of anti-American hate speech, hypersensitivity, speech codes, banded words and prohibited scientific inquiry. — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Obama has already demonstrated an extraordinary ability to change the limits of what one can say publicly. His greatest achievement up to… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
A well-functioning democracy has a culture of free speech, not simply legal protection of free speech. It encourages independence of mind. It… — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
Speech is a very important aspect of being human. A whisper doesn't cut it. — James Earl Jones Copy Share Image
I have learned that it is far easier to write a speech about good advertising than it is to write a good… — Leo Burnett Copy Share Image
Freedom of speech does not mean that you have to agree with everything that a comedian says, but that comedian should have… — Brad Williams Copy Share Image
In the course of my day, I'll probably go through four pairs of shoes! I start the day in flats.I'll change into… — Leah D. Daughtry Copy Share Image
Writing for me is a dragnet that carries everything away with it: expressions and figures of speech, postures, feelings, thoughts, troubles. In… — Elena Ferrante Copy Share Image
“A place has a curious quality when you have only a partial understanding of its language, and in those early months the… — Katie Kitamura Copy Share Image
You have to be a free speech absolutist if you want to be an 8chan admin because if you're anything else, you're… — Fredrick Brennan Copy Share Image
Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience (in this case, the judge or the… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be an actor, but with a speech impediment it's kind of tough. I decided to roll the dice… — Nicholas Brendon Copy Share Image
While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music, I really… — David Antin Copy Share Image
In his State of the Union speech in January 1941, President Franklin Roosevelt declared America's commitment to Four Freedoms in the struggle… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
There are three things in speech that ought to be considered before some things are spoken--the manner, the place and the time. — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
Contrary to popular belief, a lot of us who have speech impediments are really, really intelligent. — Curtis Blaydes Copy Share Image
The mentality of mankind and the language of mankind created each other. If we like to assume the rise of language as… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
I never drew a picture of anything that was before me but always from fancy, a sure sign of the absence of… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
China restricts the society's freedom of speech. The Communist Party imposes these limits because it lacks confidence towards the future and has… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
Sadly and criminally, many self-indulgent inactive pacifists have shunned me for being an outspoken supporter of X's 'by any means necessary' philosophy,… — Gary Yourofsky Copy Share Image
