The school asks a person who has achieved a certain level of career success to give you a speech telling you that… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
That which is repeated too often becomes insipid and tedious. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Copy Share Image
Religious expression must at least be afforded an equal playing field. Currently, the playing field is not level. Religious expression and practices… — Mathew Staver Copy Share Image
“Speechlessness, however, affirmed in the diagnosis, is carefully based on the facts of the examination, as we see by rendering the statements… — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
True and False are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither Truth nor Falsehood. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
I bet we`ll see a lot of demagoguery [in Donald Trump speech] about the 10,000 Syrians that [Barack] Obama has allowed to… — Michelle Goldberg Copy Share Image
Free speech gives us the ability to react vigorously with effective arguments and expose the weakness and misdirection of the other side's… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Speech after long silence; it is right, All other lovers being estranged or dead . . . That we descant and yet… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
However great one's gift of language may be, there is always something that one cannot tell. — Mary MacLane Copy Share Image
If then, your world be such a baffling riddle, it is because you are that baffling riddle. And if your speech be… — Mikhail Naimy Copy Share Image
One of the tricks is to have the exposition conveyed in a scene of conflict, so that a character is forced to… — Ernest Lehman Copy Share Image
Great speeches have always had great soundbites. The problem now is that the young technicians who put together speeches are paying attention… — Peggy Noonan Copy Share Image
“It is a sense of possessiveness and inner attachment (parigraha) for speech to ask, "How did I speak?” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the… — John Wesley Powell Copy Share Image
This Thursday, Barack Obama is gonna give his acceptance speech, and reportedly it's going to include performances by Bon Jovi and Bruce… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
Satire dramatizes better than any other use of it, the inherent contradiction of free speech that it functions best when what is… — Tony Hendra Copy Share Image
It's so easy to use tired, shopworn figures of speech. I love using long, fancy words but have learned - mostly from… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
La parole humaine est comme un chaudron fe" le o u' nous battons des me lodies a' faire danser les ours, quand… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
PLAIN SUPERFICIALITY is the character of a speech, in which any two points being taken, the speaker is found to lie wholly… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
“His words cost him so much, she thought, not like hers that just came dancing out of the air and went back… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
