“Once the people have been deluded into believing that speeches and voting are the only acceptable tools by which to affect change… — Dave Champion Copy Share Image
The freedom of speech is what I have and I'm going to use it. I'm sick of all the talk, the empty… — Ash Sweeney Copy Share Image
The decision to go to the moon is now appreciated and associated with President Kennedy's speech, but somebody else had told him… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
For I conclude that the enemy is not lipstick, but guilt itself; that we deserve lipstick, if we want it, AND free… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Last of all came the cat, who looked round, as usual, for the warmest place, and finally squeezed herself in between Boxer… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
My point is there's a hidden Scotland in anyone who speaks the Northern Ireland speech. It's a terrific complicating factor, not just… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
Like most novelists, I like to do exactly the opposite of what I'm told. It's in my nature as a novelist. Novelists… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I also had a stuttering problem. In a Mexican home they don't give you speech therapy; they don't even know what speech… — Felipe Esparza Copy Share Image
About the greatest virtue a friend can have, is to be able to hold her tongue; and through this, like all virtues… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
Without general elections, without freedom of the press, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, without the free battle of opinions, life in… — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
“All that they lacked was the gift that descended upon the chosen disciples at Pentecost, in tongues of flame; symbolizing, it would… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Unlike conventional jocks, who tend to sell aluminum siding and give canned speeches to parochial-school athletic banquets in the off-season, race drivers… — Brock Yates Copy Share Image
“How are you going to make it move? It doesn't have a – " "Be very quiet," advised the duke, "for it… — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
Readers take in dialogue one thought at a time. A frequent mistake of beginners is to combine thoughts, which may be suitable… — Sol Stein Copy Share Image
“No, I mean really listen. Here's a story, and you don't have to visit many houses to find it. One person is… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Once we have surrendered our senses and nervous systems to the private manipulation of those who would try to benefit from taking… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
I should say here, because some in Washington like to dream up ways to control the Internet, that we don't need to… — Peggy Noonan Copy Share Image
Breathing is fundamental to speech. A stammer is caused by erratic airflow, so if you have a smooth airflow, you have smooth… — Gareth Gates Copy Share Image
Fundamental modes of speech, the bulk of the vocabulary, are formed in the ordinary intercourse of life, carried on not as a… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Burning the flag is a form of expression. Speech doesn't just mean written words or oral words. It could be semaphore. And… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
Then I went for a run with the other dog and just walked. And I started thinking about a lot of things.… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Slave power crushes freedom of speech and of opinion. Slave power degrades labor. Slave power is arrogant, is jealous and intrusive, is… — Elizabeth Van Lew Copy Share Image
Early American speeches, from Washington's to Patrick Henry's, have been detheologized in history textbooks. No one has called it censorship. — James G. Watt Copy Share Image
There is but one pleasure in life equal to that of being called on to make an after-dinner speech, and that is… — Charles Dudley Warner Copy Share Image
I'm your idol, the highest title, Numero Uno, I'm not a Puerto Rican, but I'm speakin so that you know, And understand,… — Special Ed Copy Share Image
I think 'Cool Hand Luke' was probably the first movie in which I was aware of the writing as its own separate… — Brian Helgeland Copy Share Image
I will be brief. Not nearly so brief as Salvador Dali, who gave the world's shortest speech. He said I will be… — Gene Fowler Copy Share Image
To speak in literature with the perfect rectitude and insouciance of the movements of animals and the unimpeachable of the sentiment of… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I've discovered I prefer to prepare a few notes or actually write the speech so I can really hone it down to… — Geoffrey Rush Copy Share Image
Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounce it to you, trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Shall we keep men in a fool's paradise? Shall we lull them into soft slumbers from which they will awake in hell?… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“A good speech should be a like a woman’s skirt: long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest.… — Bill McGowan Copy Share Image
There is never a shortage anywhere of lawyers eager to attack the First Amendment, as though it were nothing more than a… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
If you believe in making change from the bottom up, if you believe the measure of change is how many people's lives… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Cultivate these, then, for they are wholly within your power: sincerity and dignity; industriousness; and sobriety. Avoid grumbling, be frugal, considerate, and… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Home. The word circled comfortably in my mouth like bubble gum, swished around sweetly soft and satisfying. Home. Try saying it aloud… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
“Besides the Vitaraag Lords (absolutely detached Ones) and the speech of the Vitaraag Lords, there is indeed no other path that will… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Silence is the sea, and speech is like the river. The sea is seeking you: don't seek the river. Don't turn your… — Rumi Copy Share Image
I'm not really afraid of somebody who's very politically vocal. My mother is very strong, and I really believe in freedom of… — Lindsey Haun Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of speeches: the Mother Hubbard speech, which, like the garment, covers everything but touches nothing, and the French… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
