The death of anti-gay hate speech is no doubt being hastened by the head-spinning speed with which gays as a group -… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
She realises that if she is to save the show she is going to have to improvise a rousing speech, one of… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
Dune was really my first Hollywood job. It was such a small part, but I opened the movie. I was about 19… — Virginia Madsen Copy Share Image
“Freedom of speech is the right to freely express an opinion. It is most assuredly not the right to express an opinion… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But we do not yet have a computer and a program for it that together can interpret speech correctly, without uncertainties, when… — Gerard K. O'Neill Copy Share Image
My philosophy is that you can't motivate players with speeches, you have motivated players that you draft. That's where they come in… — Phil Jackson Copy Share Image
When you're standing in front of an audience like this that is so enthusiastic and so much behind you, it is very… — Susan Estrich Copy Share Image
The Tucson speech [of Barack Obama] was brilliant, and I'm so angry at Republicans for jumping on him because you have to… — Frank Luntz Copy Share Image
It is remarkable, but on the whole, perhaps, not to be lamented, that the world is so unkind to a new book.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The First and Fourteenth Amendments say that Congress and the States shall make "no law" which abridges freedom of speech or of… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
“When I speak in Christian terms or Buddhist terms I'm simply selecting for the moment a dialect. Christian words for me represent… — Mary Rose O'Reilley Copy Share Image
See if you can catch yourself complaining in either speech or thought, about a situation you find yourself in, what other people… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Music. – There is something very wonderful in music. Words are wonderful enough: but music is even more wonderful. It speaks not… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
Speech, tennis, music, skiing, manners, love- you try them waking and perhaps balk at the jump, and then you're over. You've caught… — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
No, and in fact I get a bit frustrated, because I'm actually quite good at one-liners, and I've had hundreds of them… — Vince Cable Copy Share Image
When Harel wished to put a joke or witticism into circulation, he was in the habit of connecting it with some celebrated… — Louis Edouard Fournier Copy Share Image
Roy Blount is so funny, and he sounds like he's just talking, and the next thing you know he has tossed off… — Ian Frazier Copy Share Image
Who ever heard a theologian preface his creed, or a politician conclude his speech with an estimate of the probable error of… — Bertrand Russell 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
And the deepest level of communication is not communication, but communion. It is wordless. it is beyond words, and it is beyond… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The skeptic, being a lover of his kind, desires to cure by speech, as best he can, the self-conceit and rashness of… — Sextus Empiricus Copy Share Image
Freedom of expression is actually a way for people to know themselves better, and to understand themselves better. Because without it, you… — Lucien Bourjeily Copy Share Image
Every man is born with the faculty of reason and the faculty of speech, but why should he be able to speak… — Benjamin Whichcote Copy Share Image
American suffragist, speech "Is Woman Suffrage Progressing?" at Stockholm, Sweden Radicalism is a label that is always applied to people who are… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
There is never any fair and thorough discussion of heretical opinions... The greatest harm done is to those who are not heretics,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Freedom of expression and freedom of speech aren't really important unless they're heard. The freedom of hearing is as important as the… — Tom Smothers Copy Share Image
The current total of countries in the world with First Amendments is one. You have guaranteed freedom of speech. Other countries don't… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
[Liberals] are always accusing us of repressing their speech. I say let's do it. Let's repress them. ... Frankly, I'm not a… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
I watched a documentary about the immigrant crisis around the world. And it does make me blush at all the times I've… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Obamas finest speeches do not excite. They do not inform. They dont even really inspire. They elevate. . . . He is… — Ezra Klein Copy Share Image
Individual rights always go along with the interests of the society. I want to add that in Vietnam we have no political… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Most people do not really want others to have freedom of speech, they just want others to be given the freedom to… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“From her character in the HBO miniseries: "The art of politics is the art of applying the seat of the britches to… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
The substance of the eminent Socialist gentlemen's speech is that making a profit is a sin. It is my belief that the… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The dominant purpose of the First Amendment was to prohibit the widespread practice of government suppression of embarrassing information. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Speech is protected in the U.S., and at the risk of repeating a hackneyed aphorism, free speech is worthless unless it applies… — Neil Macdonald 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
The Heaneys were aristocrats, in the sense that they took for granted a code of behavior that was given and unspoken. Argumentation,… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image