Speech Quotes · Page 46

“His captivating speech came not from his grammar or vocabulary but from the joy he took in wielding them well.”

— Robert Lane Greene

Together, we must all remember that one of the most effective responses to hate speech is more speech.

— Nell Scovell

The Government may not suppress lawful speech as the means to suppress unlawful speech.

— Anthony Kennedy

A good speech should be like a woman's skirt: long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest

— Anonymous

Resist this war on God, freedom of religion and freedom of speech.

— Benjamin Carson

Censor the body and you censor breath and speech at the same time. Write yourself. Your body must be heard.

— Helene Cixous

“You can talk all you want about freedom of speech, but it's freedom of hearing that counts.”

— Tommy Smothers

I got on the high school speech team and everyday I would get up in front of the class and just start…

— Gabriel Iglesias

I've got a great sense of where I want to lead and I'm comfortable with why I'm running. And, you know, the…

— George W. Bush

“4.38 TONE OF SPEECH Most of the problems of life that be, Are caused by the tone of speech only, It is…

— Munindra (Munnan) Misra

I grew up under Communism so we could only learn Russian, and then when Communism fell in 1989 we could learn a…

— Petra Nemcova

I'm very open and never write what I'm going to say. Speeches bore everybody else. I have to freestyle. Every time, from…

— Marjane Satrapi

I never prepare a speech. I never think when I give a speech, except for "don't embarrass yourself or others," meaning "remember…

— Roger Ballen

The first amendment is freedom of speech of what you believe in, if you speak something its your right to say what…

— Jenny The Jawbreaker

It's interesting because I laugh and tell people when I give speeches, ' I know what y'all think, oh we love Ed,…

— Ed Gordon

There is something very cheerful and courageous in the setting-out of a child on a journey of speech with so small baggage…

— Alice Meynell

Speech within the kingdom of Amazonia - run by its sovereign Jeff Bezos and his board of directors with help from the…

— Rebecca MacKinnon

Like most novelists, I like to do exactly the opposite of what I'm told. It's in my nature as a novelist. Novelists…

— Haruki Murakami

The practice of Zen is to eat, breathe, cook, carry water, and scrub the toilet — to infuse every act of body,…

— Nhat Hanh

I was grateful to see President Obama's victory speech. I was over the moon to see the audience. There were about 60…

— Maya Angelou

If you read Martin Luther King speeches and sermons in the last two years of his life - you might want to…

— Bill Ayers

I gave the graduation speech at my high school. Not because I was valedictorian but because the grade voted for me to…

— Nick Kroll

Written things are not for speech; their form is literary; they are stiff, inflexible, and will not lend themselves to happy and…

— Mark Twain

I have heard Mr. Romney's speech's many times on television and the radio and I have even read his book No Apology:…

— Angela Lansbury

The First Amendment is about how we govern ourselves - not about how we titillate ourselves sexually.

— Robert Bork

“To assess the quality of thoughts of people, don't listen to their words, but watch their actions.”

— Amit Kalantri

Music... a kind of inarticulate, unfathomable speech, which leads to the edge of the Infinite.

— Thomas Carlyle

I believe in freedom of speech, but I believe we should also have the right to comment on freedom of speech.

— Stockwell Day

For computer communications, computers talk in little bursts. They're not continuous like speech.

— Bob Kahn

I had this terrible stammer, so I couldn't really speak properly until I was 16 or 17.

— Carly Simon

The worst kind of person is one whose power of speech is greater than his power of thought.

— Vikrant Parsai

It is not in vain that man speaks to man. This is the value of literature.

— Henry David Thoreau

Words can wound or heal. The purpose of speech must always be to create joy in the listener.

— Deepak Chopra

There seems to be so much shame wrapped up in speech disabilities. It seems very sad and complicated all at the same…

— Danica McKellar

The Chinese have an excellent proverb: "Be modest in speech, but excel in action.

— Horace Mann

“The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency.”

— Walter Bagehot

The fundamentals that founded our great nation included the freedom of speech and religion.

— Markwayne Mullin

Unfortunately, the problem of the free speech argument is that you have to defend people you can't stand.

— Salman Rushdie

Learn silence as you have learned speech. Speech will guide you, and silence will protect you.

— Anas

You can't come in and invade people's personal space because of free speech.

— Colby Covington