Speech Quotes · Page 72

The general nature of the speech act fallacy can be stated as follows, using "good" as our example. Calling something good is…

— John Searle

Start doing the things you think should be done, and start being what you think society should become. Do you believe in…

— Adam Michnik

I definitely support free speech.

— Margaret Cho

Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.

— Stephen Fry

Speech as known to us was unnecessary. A fragment of a sentence amounted almost to a long-winded redundancy. A gesture, a grunt,…

— Isaac Asimov

a fair degree of literacy of speech ... is increasingly rare in politicians and not necessarily regarded as an asset.

— Rae Foley

America is a great place, speech is free and you're able to expose the fact that you're an idiot.

— Eric Stonestreet

You've got to find a difierent approach. You've got to create some interest in your language, in the words and pictures you…

— Roger Ailes

Do not be fooled by one who recites the Qurân. His recitation is but speech – but look to those who act…

— Umar

Place a padlock on your throat and hide the key.

— Rumi

“Great losses are great lessons.”

— Amit Kalantri

What great delight it is to see the ones we love and then to have speech with them.

— Vincent McNabb

He [Roosevelt] has made some speeches that indicate that he is going quite beyond anything that he advocated when he was in…

— William Howard Taft

And so Adam, in that his speech to Eve, uttered his faith in the promise made to her of her seed, and…

— Thomas Goodwin

I adored being at the RSC and working on the verse and getting the iambic pentameter right. You just skim across the…

— Richard McCabe

There are two qualities that make fiction. One is the sense of mystery and the other is the sense of manners. You…

— Flannery O'Connor

[That] my body be buried as cheaply as possible and no speeches be permitted at my funeral.

— Charles Bradlaugh

I was always a clown. In the eighth grade I won a city speech contest by doing an Eddie Murphy routine. I'm…

— Jason Wiles

To sew is to pray. Men don't understand this. They see the whole but they don't see the stitches. They don't see…

— Louise Erdrich

Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth.

— Thomas Huxley

Rarely has a people paid the lavish compliment and taken the subtle revenge of turning its oppressor's speech into sorcery.

— Bill Vaughan

I want to rip off your logic and make passionate sense to you. I want to ride in the swing of your…

— Jeffrey McDaniel

I'd usually read the Bible a lot. Read little short Bible stories. And today, whenever I give speeches, I bring up a…

— Herschel Walker

Poetry begins as the divine speech of the bicameral mind. Then, as the bicameral mind breaks down, there remain prophets.

— Julian Jaynes

Civility does not ...mean the mere outward gentleness of speech cultivated for the occasion, but an inborn gentleness and desire to do…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Individual rights always go along with the interests of the society. I want to add that in Vietnam we have no political…

— Anonymous

When kids are really little, they all look the same. No speech, no social relatedness, cannot emphasize enough the importance of early…

— Temple Grandin

Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding.

— George Savile

The first amendment protects free speech, but if you don't have freedom of thought, do you really have freedom of speech?

— Rob Kampia

We made sure that Ian Gwyn Hughes from the media department gave a speech about the anthem. We translated it into English,…

— Rob Page

Thought is deeper than all speech, Feeling deeper than all thought; Souls to souls can never teach What unto themselves was taught.

— Christopher Pearse Cranch

Truth is his inspirer, and earnestness the polisher of his sentences. He could afford to lose his Sharp's rifles, while he retained…

— Henry David Thoreau

Only in America, Rabbi Golden, do these peasants, our mothers, get their hair dyed platinum at the age of sixty, and walk…

— Philip Roth

the modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.

— Hannah More

Forget what you learned about poetry in school. (That it's complex, opaque, a problem to be solved in 1500 words by tomorrow.)…

— Garrison Keillor

You kind of half-prepare a speech in your head, and then you get up there and then you end up saying nothing…

— Ed Sheeran

I'm a very good thinker, but I sometimes grab the wrong word. I say something I didn't think through adequately. I mean,…

— Ted Turner

And empty heads console with empty sound.

— Alexander Pope

People are falling all over themselves to send you free shoes and free cufflinks and colonic irrigations for two. Nobody ever offers…

— Hugh Laurie

Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.…

— George Washington