I think the first little jolt I got was reading Gerard Manley Hopkins - I liked other poems... but Hopkins was kind… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg fell asleep during Obama's speech. She woke up with the other justices drawing a gavel on… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
Free speech exercised both individually and through a free press, is a necessity in any country where people are themselves free. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A sentence well couched takes both the sense and understanding. I love not those cart-rope speeches that are longer than the memory… — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
I never had a speech from my father 'this is what you must do or shouldn't do' but I just learned to… — Adam Sandler Copy Share Image
Do you know what I think white people wholly own? I think freedom of speech is a white thing. This is something… — David Duke Copy Share Image
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Humans abhor a vacuum. The immediate filling of a vacuum is one of the basic functions of speech. Meaningless conversations are no… — Lidiya Ginzburg Copy Share Image
“Our challenges may be new. The instruments with which we meet them may be new. But those values upon which our success… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“A place has a curious quality when you have only a partial understanding of its language, and in those early months the… — Katie Kitamura Copy Share Image
To make love is to become like this infant again. We grope with our mouths toward the body of another being, whom… — Susan Griffin Copy Share Image
Freud believed that our dreams sometimes recapitulate a speech, a comment we've heard or something that we've read. I always had compositions… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
The Internet may fairly be regarded as a never-ending worldwide conversation. The government may not, through the , interrupt that conversation... As… — Stewart Dalzell Copy Share Image
The path of self-purification is hard and steep. One has to become absolutely passion-free in thought, speech and action to rise above… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
How can you have in our country that is based upon liberality and liberation, be so anti-liberal. That's toxic waste to our… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
Mos Def is a name that I built and cultivated over the years, it's a name that the streets taught me, a… — Mos Def Copy Share Image
A lot of people would flee from what they think is award-show cheesiness, and I don't. I often joke that my speeches… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
This Ariyan Eightfold Path, that is to say: Right view, right aim, right speech, right action, right living, right effort, right mindfulness,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The speech of one who utters with his tongue what he thinks with his ear, and feels the pride of a creator… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The quintessential exercise of free speech in a culture supposedly built on that concept and dedicated to it, the Internet's development is… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Mitt Romney speaking to a $50,000-a-plate Republican fundraiser says he doesn't have to worry about the 47 per cent of Americans who… — Malcolm Turnbull Copy Share Image
It is not easy to describe the present position of legal opinion on advertising and free speech. Only a poet can capture… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are often multiple sources for some famous statements by King; as a professional speaker and minister he used some significant phrases… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I got four volumes of the letters and speeches of Oliver Cromwell. He is prominent among the great unread, and treated so… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I don't care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your head, you're… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
We've become so used to the concept as a measuring and sorting tool, that it and its correlates - below-average, above-average -… — L. Todd Rose Copy Share Image
The loss of candor is grievous, and in my opinion it may yet prove to be mortal, because if we cannot discuss… — Alexander Haig Copy Share Image
The most important aspect of freedom of speech is freedom to learn. All education is a continuous dialogue - questions and answers… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is beside the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to… — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share Image
There are many prices we pay for freedoms secured by the First Amendment; the risk of undue influence is one of them,… — Warren E. Burger Copy Share Image
I am sure that as soon as speech was invented, efforts to suppress and control it began, and that process of suppression… — Gilbert S. Merritt, Jr Copy Share Image
“Freedom of speech i can guarantee ,but freedom after speech i can't guarantee ,so watch the the type of words that comes… — lexis smigz Copy Share Image
If I was to interrupt this article every few sentences, asking you whether or not I was making a good impression on… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Punk to me was a form of free speech. It was a moment when suddenly all kinds of strange voices that no… — Greil Marcus Copy Share Image
That's another way of writing a song, of course. Just talking to somebody that ain't there. That's the best way. That's the… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
The Romney candidacy is better than it was four years ago, but it's not clear that it's good. Mitt needs to get… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
He that negotiates between God and man, As God's ambassador, the grand concerns Of judgment and of mercy, should beware Of lightness… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Shields Green was not one to shrink from hardships or dangers. He was a man of few words, and his speech was… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
When I finally addressed my stuttering - I was almost through with medical school by the time that I finally sought therapy… — Leana S. Wen Copy Share Image
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