Metaphor is one of a group of problem-solving medicines known as figures of speech which are normally used to treat literal thinking… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
Speech is not a means in the service of an external end. It contains its own rule of usage, ethics, and view… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
“If large numbers of people believe in freedom of speech, there will be freedom of speech, even if the law forbids it.… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I grew up using hearing aids, and I had speech therapy and so forth, and that helped me to develop a passion… — Sean Berdy Copy Share Image
But all the long speeches, all the interminable days and hours that people had spent talking about my soul, had left me… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I got some real rough dental work done not long ago, and my mouth's still numb right here [points to the left… — Roy Jones Jr Copy Share Image
What happens in the present moment? In the present moment, you are producing thought, speech, and action. And they continue in the… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
In a speech in South Carolina, Donald Trump responded to criticisms from Senator Lindsey Graham by giving out Graham's personal cellphone number.… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
My hope is that the Chinese government will come to realise that it is futile to repress free speech, and that contrary… — Ma Jian Copy Share Image
“In 1881, being on a visit to Boston, my wife and I found ourselves in the Parker House with the Ingersoll 's,… — Moncure Daniel Conway Copy Share Image
The character and the actor in a long-running series slowly become one. I think there must be funny stories about actors who,… — William H. Macy Copy Share Image
“I am knowing to him who lacks knowledge, One who teaches a man what is useful to him. I am a straight… — Miriam Lichtheim Copy Share Image
To ignore, repress, or dismiss our feelings is to fail to listen to the stirrings of the Spirit within our emotional life.… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
I believe there is a limit beyond which free speech cannot go, but it's a limit that's very seldom mentioned. It's the… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Revolutionary politics, revolutionary art, and oh, the revolutionary mind, is the dullest thing on earth. When we open a revolutionary review, or… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
The most interesting acquaintanceship I have struck up here is that of Colonel Lapinski. He is without doubt the cleverest Pole --… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Hitler frequently demonstrated diffidence and unease in dealings with individuals which contrasted diametrically with his self-confident mastery in exploiting the emotions of… — Ian Kershaw Copy Share Image
I want to rip off your logic and make passionate sense to you. I want to ride in the swing of your… — Jeffrey McDaniel Copy Share Image
I keep telling myself to calm down, to take less of an interest in things and not to get so excited, but… — Kate Adie Copy Share Image
All Citizens United did was to level the playing field for corporate speech. We now have, I think, the most free and… — Mitch McConnell Copy Share Image
I live in America. I have the right to write whatever I want. And it's equaled by another right just as powerful:… — Brad Thor Copy Share Image
“(Spoken) words are considered an ‘expense’. ‘Speech’ should not be spent away. Speech is wealth. It should be 'counted' upon spending. Does… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
But please know, whether you believe campaign contributions are speech or property, that I learned to love very dearly the right of… — John McCain Copy Share Image
It's a useful rule in Anglo-American communications that the English should double, and the Americans halve, the number of words they would… — Phyllis Bentley Copy Share Image
Bill and Hillary Clinton are married, so under the law, paying him for a speech is like giving money directly to her… — Tom Fitton Copy Share Image
When I was 6 I became the poster child for my hospital and would go to banquets and make speeches. I did… — Atticus Shaffer Copy Share Image
A nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics, because comics are a natural target whenever an election… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You are solidified silence, awareness. A thousand hours of speech cannot equal one glance: a hundred glances cannot equal a minute of… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
There is nothing wrong with my health. Who doesn't forget things from time-to-time? Who out there has never stuttered or slurred a… — Mark Hunt Copy Share Image
If you can come up with a snappy little slogan, then you have a future in winning tagline competitions or being a… — Mark Victor Hansen Copy Share Image
I adored being at the RSC and working on the verse and getting the iambic pentameter right. You just skim across the… — Richard McCabe Copy Share Image
In 2004, I went to Israel and gave a speech that resulted in guns and ammunition being given to the South Sudanese… — Kola Boof Copy Share Image
Maybe poets express more directly a sense of sympathy for other human beings. Painting is a little bit more of a retreat… — Francesco Clemente Copy Share Image
Freedom of expression is tested during times of anger and conflict and enables all opinions and outraged expressions of dissent that we… — Yair Lapid Copy Share Image
“He made an impassioned speech about man fading in the shadow of the machine, losing our individual rights as our computer technology… — David A. Goodman Copy Share Image
“Freedom of speech is not simply a freedom to think and say what you wish, but to speak for yourself, to speak… — Ian McCallum Copy Share Image
You can't be selective about freedom of speech. If you say you believe in freedom of speech you have to acknowledge the… — George Brandis Copy Share Image
Humans have changed little over time. We think we've invented the modern world but they were making better speeches 2,000 years ago… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
Every Democrat constituency group has at least two things in common. They hate us. They despise opposition. That's why they created political… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The mark of the man of the world is absence of pretension. He does not make a speech; he takes a low… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image