We may put too high a premium on speech from platform and pulpit, at the bar and in the legislative hall, and… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Do what ya have to do to pay off yer debt with Heaven,’ he said, his concern for proper speech abandoned. ‘But… — Jana Oliver Copy Share Image
I learn immediately from any speaker how much he has already lived, through the poverty or the splendor of his speech. Life… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The child begins to perceive the world not only through his [or her] eyes but also through his [or her] speech — Lev S. Vygotsky Copy Share Image
. . . the wellspring for the passion that drove public speech and action in behalf of the environment was in large… — Catherine L. Albanese Copy Share Image
Writing comes into being to retain information across time and across space. Before writing, communication is evanescent and local; sounds carry a… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
There are often multiple sources for some famous statements by King; as a professional speaker and minister he used some significant phrases… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Getting a lot of applause, announcing military reforms and upgrades. It's a really good speech [of Donald Trump]. — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounc'd it to you, trippingly on the tongue. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
If you have to make an unpopular speech, give it all the sincerity you can muster; that's the only way to sweeten… — Jean Francois Paul de Gondi Copy Share Image
One is so apt to cheapen a thing when one tries hastily to put it into words, and ever afterward it is… — Ruth Sawyer Copy Share Image
In Iran, there is no freedom of the press, no freedom of speech, no independent judiciary, no free elections. There is no… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
I got to watch Frank Capra, in his eighties, in action. You read all the stories about Frank Capra fighting with the… — David Copperfield Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton has perfected the politics of personal profit and theft. She ran the State Department like her own personal hedge fund,… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. Never use a long… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The Grecian’s maxim would indeed be a sweeping clause in Literature; it would reduce many a giant to a pygmy; many a… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The ancient media of speech and song and theater were radically reshaped by writing, though they were never entirely supplanted, a comfort… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy. — Bela Lugosi Copy Share Image
Journalists justify their treachery in various ways according to their temperaments. The more pompous talk about freedom of speech and ‘the public’s… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
I scarce ever heard or saw the introductory words, "Without vanity I may say," etc., but some vain thing immediately followed. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
