It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
The greatest and truest models for all oratorsis Demosthenes. One who has not studied deeply and constantly all the great speeches of… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
I’m not for profiling people on the color of their skin or on their religion. But I would take into account where… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
It's no surprise to say I oppose the ban [of Donald Trump].If we only allow free speech for those we already agree… — Edward Leigh Copy Share Image
The mark of solitude is silence, as speech is the mark of community. Silence and speech have the same inner correspondence and… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
If liberty of speech is to be untrammeled from the grosser forms of constraint, the uniformity of opinion will be secured by… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
Governments throughout the English-speaking sphere are creating and then ratcheting the torque on "hate-speech" laws with frightening eagerness. — Jim Goad Copy Share Image
Poetry is one of the most fugitive arts: it can be assigned to memory, taken and hidden in the mind, smuggled into… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
“He used a minimum of words and no inflection whatsoever. It was a policeman's manner of speaking, direct and unadorned.” — Davis Bunn Copy Share Image
In academia, left-liberalism is so entrenched its advocates' debating skills have gone rusty. When you've been talking to yourself for decades and… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
If you are an autodidact, you probably do write more in the rhythm of speech rather than having learnt prose. — Viv Albertine Copy Share Image
Usually, the way I write is to sit down at a typewriter after that year or so of what passes for thinking,… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
“How can the power of speech remain when you lie for your own ‘safeside’?” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
America -- rather, the United States -- seems to me to be the Jew among the nations. It is resourceful, adaptable, maligned,… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
And if you had no tongue, no celebrating language, you’d do this: cross your hands at the wrist with palms facing towards… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
I feel it is my first duty to make an unprecedented compact with my countrymen. Not an inaugural address, not a fireside… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
It is too often forgotten that the gift of speech, so centrally employed, has been elaborated as much for the purpose of… — Wilfred Bion Copy Share Image
“It was Ebon's turn now, and he stepped forward and gave the pegasus' great clarion neigh -- far more like a trumpet… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker. It has always been hard for me to say exactly what… — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
“A comment that starts with the words "I think" usually means the opposite.” — Jack Gardner Copy Share Image
“Ay, that I had not done a thousand more. Even now I curse the day—and yet, I think, Few come within the… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
To ignore, repress, or dismiss our feelings is to fail to listen to the stirrings of the Spirit within our emotional life.… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
