Speech Quotes · Page 38

Moderate people are able to be moderate and have free speech only because there are some people on the fringe.

— Patrick Chappatte

There is no such thing as a nonpolitical speech by a politician.

— Richard M. Nixon

Silence is a figure of speech, unanswerable, short, cold, but terribly severe.

— Theodore Parker

I would not be able to sleep at night and I would practice my Grammys speech. That was definitely me.

— Gabriella Wilson

How many people saw Arnold's speech last night? I haven't seen that many Kennedys in one place since their last trial.

— David Letterman

The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.

— Anonymous

“We had the whole 'when you assume you make an ass out of you and me' speech in school.”

— Jonathan Maberry

Mum would have a panic attack if she had to stand up and give a speech around a table.

— Lily James

In my first 15 or 20 years of authorship, I was almost never asked to give a speech or an interview. The…

— John Updike

Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you…

— Walt Whitman

The average Southerner has the speech patterns of someone slipping in and out of consciousness. I can change my shoes and socks…

— Bill Bryson

You talk to me in parables. You may have known that I'm no wordy man, Fine speeches are the instruments of knaves…

— Thomas Otway

In Japan, you get on the bullet train or the airplane, and I loved the little speeches the stewardesses would do. They…

— Beck

You know, there's nothing more interesting than seeing a bunch of racists become confused and angry at a speech they're not quite…

— Janeane Garofalo

“We consider speech to be the result of thought (we have a thought, then select a sentence with which to express it),…

— George Saunders

Writing seems to rob me of my being: it is a second hand mode of communication, a pallid, mechanical transcript of speech,…

— Terry Eagleton

When a man looks at the stars, he grows calm and forgets small things. They answer his questions and show him that…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

The parable of the prodigal son, the most beautiful fiction that ever was invented; our Saviour's speech to His disciples, with which…

— William Cowper

Wouldn't it be wonderful if every home had good books instead of knick-knacks and plastic flowers on the bookshelves? And wouldn't it…

— Ernest L. Boyer

It is no strain of metaphor to say that the love of God and the wrath of God are the same thing,…

— Reginald John Campbell

The recognition of the law of the cause and effect, also known as karma, is a fundamental key to understand how you've…

— Keanu Reeves

Individuals have the right to pick and choose which expressions to condemn, which to praise and which to say nothing about. Governments,…

— Alan Dershowitz

Even Dionysus's welcome-home speech wasn't enough to dampen my spirits. "Yes, yes, so the little brat didn't get himself killed and now…

— Rick Riordan

Of cases where a man is truthful both in speech and conduct when no considerations of honesty come in, from an habitual…

— Aristotle

“Making a product is just an activity, making a profit on a product is the achievement.”

— Amit Kalantri

Israel is a country that respects freedom - freedom of assembly, freedom of speech and freedom of worship.

— George Pataki

Eloquent speech is not from lip to ear, but rather from heart to heart.

— William Jennings Bryan

The first exception [to the First Amendment] will not be the last.

— Ira Glasser

The beginning of philosophy is the recognition of the conflict between opinions.

— Epictetus

“Ownership of speech is the greatest ego. Ownership of the body prevails naturally, but the main self prevails in speech.”

— Dada Bhagwan

Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.

— Abbie Hoffman

The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I generally feel that the solution to speech that people find offensive is more speech. You should talk about it, discuss it.

— Jake Tapper

Humans are still much better than computers at recognizing speech.

— Geoffrey Hinton

The six great gifts of an Irish girl are beauty, soft voice, sweet speech, wisdom, needlework, and chastity.

— Theodore Roosevelt

“In a noisy place I can’t understand speech, because I cannot screen out the background noise.”

— Temple Grandin

Mentioning Jesus in your speech: Small government. Doing what Jesus asked: Big government.

— Stephen Colbert

Before I begin speaking, there is something I would like to say.

— Saul Gorn

I forgot Dumbledore trashed Hogwarts, refused to resign and ran off to the forest to make speeches to angry trolls.

— J. K. Rowling

“Freedom of speech does not protect you from the consequences of saying stupid shit. [ Blog post, March 12, 2012 ]”

— Jim C. Hines