I won the speech competition in class, and I always say this was my first 'spoken word performance.' It was the first… — Rupi Kaur 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
You watch the Supreme Court in action on these cases, and they are a conflicted court. However, when it comes to speech… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I will have you know I practiced that speech. In front of a mirror before you got here." "So what do you… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“People appear like angels until you hear them speak. You must not rush to judge people by the colour of their cloaks,… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
It is amazing how many people act as if the right to free speech includes the right to be free of criticism… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
If one more 'journalist' makes a cavalier statement about me and my band, I will personally or with my fans' help, greet… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
Liberals love to screech about 'free speech,' but it's pretty clear to most of us that they don't really tolerate any speech… — Mike Gallagher Copy Share Image
The superior excellence imputed to the book, which imitates the products of antique and obsolete processes, is conceived to be chiefly a… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
Like the sorcerer of old, the television set casts its magic spell, freezing speech and action and turning the living into silent… — Urie Bronfenbrenner Copy Share Image
When you read a great book, you don’t escape from life, you plunge deeper into it. There may be a superficial escape… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
As a matter of constitutional tradition, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, we presume that governmental regulation of the content… — John Paul Stevens Copy Share Image
In my view, madness is a place. You go. You come back. And I think we all take turns being the mental… — Carol O'Connell Copy Share Image
The values that we share - freedom of speech, freedom of religious practice, freedom for civil society, free and fair elections, all… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Leon Theremin's original designs are elegant, ingenious and effective. As electronics goes, the theremin is very simple. But there are so many… — Robert Moog Copy Share Image
Speakers find joy in public speaking when they realize that a speech is all about the audience, not the speaker. Most speakers… — Nick Morgan Copy Share Image
That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed… — Timothy Garton Ash Copy Share Image
I've been turning it over in after-dinner speeches, but it looks awkward-it's not what people are used to-it wants a good deal… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Toward the end of the 1964 presidential campaign, Reagan gives a speech on behalf of Barry Goldwater. It was like a screen… — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
I think it's important and I think it's true that our life experience is going to be about our attitude, our thoughts,… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
“This is why myth is experienced as innocent speech: not because its intentions are hidden—if they were hidden, they could not be… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
We are so proud of our guarantees of freedom in thought and speech and worship, that, unconsciously, we are guilty of one… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Remember, 'governance' is a big word that includes human rights, freedom of speech, economic transactions on a worldwide basis - it touches… — Vint Cerf Copy Share Image
The expression of a man's face is commonly a help to his thoughts, or glossary on his speech; but the countenance of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Those whose hardships are set forth in pamphlets and proclaimed in sermons and speeches which echo throughout society, are assumed to be… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In our manner of speech, our plans of living, our dealings with others, our conduct and walk in the church and out… — Albert C. Barnes Copy Share Image
Of course you will insist on modesty in the children, and respect to their teachers, but if the boy stops you in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Analogy pervades all our thinking, our everyday speech and our trivial conclusions as well as artistic ways of expression and the highest… — George Polya Copy Share Image
It is commonly said by farmers, that a good pear or apple costs no more time or pains to rear, than a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Profound ignorance makes a man dogmatic. The man who knows nothing thinks he is teaching others what he has just learned himself;… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
The human species took a crucial step forward when its vocal musculature came under operant control in the production of speech sounds.… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
Among a man's many good possessions, A good command of speech has no equal. Prosperity and ruin issue from the power of… — Thiruvalluvar Copy Share Image
“The Lord says, ‘use your mind, speech, body and the soul (the relative self, the worldly self) for others. Then if you… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Before you write - remember that every speech has something of 'you' in the writing. Don't take that away when you write.… — Phil Collins Copy Share Image
A great speech can make you remember something about what you believe, about who you are, about who you want to be.… — Jon Lovett Copy Share Image
Today it is becoming harder to speak out, with the inception of the Patriot Act, the president has legislated free speech to… — Frank Serpico Copy Share Image
Supreme Court opinion notwithstanding, corporations are not defined as people under the Constitution, and free speech can hardly be called free when… — Warren Rudman Copy Share Image
The prima facie evidence provision in this case ignores all of the contextual factors that are necessary to decide whether a particular… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
Coolidge made less speeches and got more votes than any man that ever run. (William Jennings) Bryan was listened to and cheered… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Central to everything I am and believe and have written is my astonishment, naive as it seems to people, that you can… — George Steiner Copy Share Image