Speech Quotes · Page 54

“Utterances of cursed language defiles the hearts and souls of man and many.”

— T.F. Hodge

I was a diction, speech and method acting professor before I became an actor.

— Puneet Issar

Speech ... is an invention of man's to prevent him from thinking.

— Agatha Christie

Give me an opportunity to fail," Saiman said. "I promise my corpse won't interrupt your 'I told you so' speech.

— Ilona Andrews

The superior man * * * in regard to his speech * * * is anxious that it should be sincere.

— Confucius

Speech is our second possession, after the soul-and perhaps we have no other possession in this world.

— Gabriela Mistral

A good speech has a beginning, a middle and an end, the best example being, 'I love you.'

— Anonymous

“The decision is your own voice, an opinion is the echo of someone else's voice.”

— Amit Kalantri

For many Americans the term 'speech code' sends shivers up the spine. Yet these noxious and un-American codes have become commonplace on…

— Kirsten Powers

It's hard to believe President George Bush gave a speech in New Orleans about disaster recovery and failed to mention the word…

— Jim Hightower

Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions; . . . that laws were like cobwebs, - for that…

— Diogenes

Hillary Clinton made $21.6 million giving speeches to Wall Street banks and other special interests and, in less than two years, secret…

— Donald Trump

When I give a lot of speeches, they're always on the fly. I mean, I know what I'm going to say roughly,…

— Vince Flynn

The most moving speech I have ever heard was Hugh Gaitskell saying he would 'fight, fight and fight again to save the…

— Roy Jenkins

"I don't want to lose you, I love you, and...and that's all I've got." As speeches went, it wasn't great. As feelings…

— Kristan Higgins

John Kerry now getting slammed by the Republicans because of a botched joke he did about President Bush and Iraq in a…

— Jay Leno

After graduating college in 2001 with a B. A. in Political Science and Speech Communications from Texas State University - San Marcos,…

— Kesha Rogers

Bad facts make bad law, and people who write bad laws are in my opinion more dangerous than songwriters who celebrate sexuality.…

— Frank Zappa

Russian is such a tough and complex language that I am happy enough to understand everything and read most things pretty well,…

— David Remnick

We want to create, never mind the leaders or the bishops or chief rabbis or imams, or Popes. We want to create…

— Karen Armstrong

The growing drama has outgrown such toys Of simulated stature, face, and speech: It also peradventure may outgrow The simulation of the…

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

You could protect a religious minority against gays and lesbians. Or you could protect gays and lesbians against a religious minority. And…

— Judith Butler

If you string together a set of speeches expressive of character, and well finished in point and diction and thought, you will…

— Aristotle

George Bush, within a week of this [the 9/11 attacks], in a speech, attempting to distinguish US from the Muslim fundamentalists, said…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

So many times, I have a speech ready but no dice. Always a bridesmaid, never a mother.

— Michael Curtiz

“I swear that white folks need to just shut the hell up sometimes. Y'all make it hard for everybody.”

— Kiese Laymon

The very best impromptu speeches are the ones written well in advance.

— Ruth Gordon

The problem with speeches isn't so much not knowing when to stop, as knowing when not to begin.

— Frances Rodman

“War is not just the shower of bullets and bombs from both sides, it is also the shower of blood and bones…

— Amit Kalantri

Free speech is the bedrock of liberty and a free society. And yes, it includes the right to blaspheme and offend.

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Prayer needs no speech. It is in itself independent of any sensuous effort. But it must be combined with the utmost humility.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“A comment that starts with the words "I think" usually means the opposite.”

— Jack Gardner

I may not agree with what you have to say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

— Voltaire

At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer.

— Marshall Lumsden

Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.

— Hermann Hesse

[Albert] Camus writes his acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize in thanks to his teacher.

— Catherine Camus

Prussia: freedom of movement with a muzzle. Austria: an isolation cell in which screaming is allowed.

— Karl Kraus

Speeches are more important in politics than talking points, as a rule, and are better remembered.

— Peggy Noonan

Baseball is to our everyday experience what poetry often is to common speech — a slightly elevated and concentrated form.

— Thomas Boswell

It's a rare political speech that, two years after it is delivered, can still be quoted verbatim around the world.

— Cathy Newman