Speech Quotes · Page 32

I am more proud of Hillary Clinton's alt-right speech than any other moment on the campaign trail.

— Jennifer Palmieri

You can't just give a speech and expect people to fall down and agree with you.

— Hillary Clinton

Pronunciation has made many an innocent word sound like a doctor's orders for a stomach pump.

— Zelda Fitzgerald

Do not use the sharpness of your speech on your mother who taught you how to speak.

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

My heart is full of many things there are moments when I feel that speech is nothing after all.

— Ludwig van Beethoven

The most censored speech in America today is not flag-burning, pornography, or the press.

— Phyllis Schlafly

In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

— George Orwell

“Some people when they see cheese, chocolate or cake they don't think of calories.”

— Amit Kalantri

To the questioning glance of love, as it flashes out and then conceals itself, speech has no reply; the smile, the kiss,…

— Jose Rizal

Do not be satisfied with the speech of your lips and the thought in your heart, all the promises and good sayings…

— Menachem Mendel of Kotzk

In general, hateful speech and opinions are protected under the Constitution, except to the extent they are deemed to incite violence or…

— Sharyl Attkisson

You know if something is good because you remember the lines because it is written so well. The rhythm of the speech…

— Rob James-Collier

Did you ever think that making a speech on economics is a lot like pissing down your leg? It seems hot to…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Trump doesn't care much about anyone's speech if it disagrees with him, and that's an extremely bad trait in a president making…

— Mary Katharine Ham

What yells out at the US public . . . is the incandescent hypocrisy of so many people who, in the name…

— William F. Buckley, Jr

The other night, the president gave a speech. He said, "children are our most prescious natural resource". I thought, "let's hope it…

— Emo Philips

It is within the police power of the state to prohibit public use of fighting words that create a danger of breach…

— Ithiel de Sola Pool

“The language in which we are speaking is his before it is mine. How different are the words HOME, CHRIST, ALE, MASTER,…

— James Joyce

I still have a stammer that I can control by not opening a sentence with a hard consonant, or by concentrating for…

— Colm Toibin

“You just say it. That’s how you say something that’s hard. You put one foot in front of the other. You take…

— Lauren Blakely

Because I have conducted my own operas and love sheep-dogs; because I generally dress in tweeds, and sometimes, at winter afternoon concerts,…

— Ethel Smyth

Indeed, theological discourse offers its strange jubilation only to the strict extent that it permits and, dangerously, demands of it wokman that…

— Jean-Luc Marion

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

We may put too high a premium on speech from platform and pulpit, at the bar and in the legislative hall, and…

— Bill Vaughan

I worked on one speech about the financial system that caused the Dow to drop, like, 200 points.

— Jon Lovett

“Respect cannot be inherited, respect is the result of right actions.”

— Amit Kalantri

“All speech is not necessarily free. People pay a price for speaking up and speaking out.”

— Dana L. Stringer

I think Thomas Jefferson would have said the more speech, the better.

— Antonin Scalia

“One more optional piece of advice: If you ever have to give a speech, start with a joke, if you know one.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

Phocion compared the speeches of Leosthenes to cypress-trees. "They are tall," said he, "and comely, but bear no fruit."

— Plutarch

Racism is a form of insanity. Human beings became racist when they started talking. Speech has a lot to do with it.

— Paul Mooney

Cats have a contempt of speech. Why should they talk when they can communicate without words?

— Lilian Jackson Braun

Without free speech no search for truth is possible... no discovery of truth is useful.

— Charles Bradlaugh

“In many a case, the phrase ‘I’d like to get to know you better’ is a euphemism for ‘I want us to…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Few speeches which have produced an electrical effect on an audience can bear the colourless photography of a printed record.

— Anonymous

It's freeing, to think that there's always an aspect of us outside the grasp of speech, the common stuff of language.

— Mark Doty

Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.

— Anthony Trollope

My funny speech wasn't funny. That's not the first time a politician has done that.

— Elizabeth May

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

— Noam Chomsky

But in love each moment is magnified, and every gesture, word and syllable is examined like a speech by the President.

— Hanif Kureishi