I suspect that music has qualities both of speech and writing - partly built in, partly individually constructed - and this goes… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
I'm still working on my speech, but I do a lot of voice-acting work. My agent is the best. I make a… — Gabrielle Carteris Copy Share Image
Reconciliation is a deep practice that we can do with our listening and our mindful speech. To reconcile means to bring peace… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Silence often expresses 'more powerfully than speech the verdict and judgment of society. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Consciousness surely does not depend on language. Babies, many animals, and patients robbed of speech by brain damage are not insensate robots;… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The whole art of the political speech is to put 'nothing' into it. It is much more difficult than it sounds. — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one's behind me, anyway. — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
The animals have no need for speech, why talk when you are a word. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“ cadence , n . I have never lived anywhere but New York or New England, but there are times when I'm… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
When I was a kid - and I don't know why, it's the most random thing - I wanted to be a… — Haylie Duff Copy Share Image
Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are… — Mary Catherwood Copy Share Image
My voice is the only material thing in which I can still reveal myself. Go ahead and cut off the hand or… — Abdellatif Laabi Copy Share Image
But in love each moment is magnified, and every gesture, word and syllable is examined like a speech by the President. — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
Threats to freedom of speech, writing and action, though often trivial in isolation, are cumulative in their effect and, unless checked, lead… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I've skewered whites, blacks, Hispanics, Christians, Jews, Muslims, gays, straights, rednecks, addicts, the elderly, and my wife. As a standup comic, it… — Jeff Dunham Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Half the sorrows of women would be averted if they could repress the speech they know to be useless-nay, the speech they… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Who claims Truth, Truth abandons. History is hir'd, or coerc'd, only in Interests that must ever prove base. She is too innocent,… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
I gave a funny speech at my wife's birthday party, and I'm thinking, 'Hey, I've still got it.' — Larry David Copy Share Image
The problem with people who live in a world of speeches and books and theories is they don't know how to fix… — Kathleen Troia McFarland Copy Share Image
[The Muse of our Fiction of the future] will lead you - if you are humble and honest with her - straight… — Frank Norris Copy Share Image
By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of… — Harry A. Blackmun Copy Share Image
As the truest society approaches always nearer to solitude, so the most excellent speech finally falls into Silence. Silence is audible to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image