Language is in decline. Not only has eloquence departed but simple, direct speech as well, though pomposity and banality have not. — Edwin Newman Copy Share Image
Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
We really don't have free speech protections. I mean, if it exists, there are rules about it. If it exists, it is… — Milo Yiannopoulos Copy Share Image
Freedom of speech is of no use to a man who has nothing to say and freedom of worship is of no… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Gerald Jonas's book about stuttering is called 'The Disorder of Many Theories.' Back theory seems to suffer from the same 'Rashomon' effect:… — David Shields Copy Share Image
Loud speech, profusion of words, and possessing skillfulness in expounding scriptures are merely for the enjoyment of the learned. They do not… — Adi Shankara Copy Share Image
“You ask me why I don't speak Not a word at will But write so much worth well over a mill' Well… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Refraining from false speech: speech from the heart. Undertake for one week not to gossip (positively or negatively) or speak about anyone… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
“Why question what Froi of Lumatere was doing here?' he asked.' When you should be questioning what would have happened to Charyn… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
The effect of speech upon the condition of the soul is comparable to the power of drugs over the nature of bodies.… — Gorgias Copy Share Image
Many people believe letters the most personal and revealing form of communication. In them, we expect to find the charmer at his… — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
I'm able to bring business expertise but, more importantly, operating experience. The people here at Google are young. Every day there are… — Eric Schmidt Copy Share Image
When you depart from standard usage, it should be deliberate and not an accidental lapse. Like a poet who breaks the rules… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
I was very glad that Mr. Attlee described my speeches in the war as expressing the will not only of Parliament but… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Yes, I heard my people singing!-in the glow of parlor coal-stove and on summer porches sweet with lilac air, from choir loft… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
Do you remember what Darwin says about music? He claims that the power of producing and appreciating it existed among the human… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
I've stammered all my life, and it's fair to say that my stammer has shaped my life. It's made me make some… — Gareth Gates Copy Share Image
Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
I said in my acceptance speech that I hope that readers remember this not as the year I won the Booker, but… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
The First Amendment is not an altar on which we must sacrifice our children, families, and community standards. Obscene material that is… — Orrin Hatch Copy Share Image
“Speech is a phase (avastha) of the non-Self complex (pudgal); it is not its intrinsic property that has a specific function (gunadharma).” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Thus poetry, regarded as a vehicle of thought, is especially impressive partly because it obeys all the laws of effective speech, and… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
“Mine’ and ‘yours’, is interaction of the worldly life. If you like the interaction where the other person is being verbally abusive,… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
'Why' is a question no animal can ask, because both the question and answers require speech. Have you ever seen an animal… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
Looking to Donald Trump's immigration speech can he hang onto his base if he softens his stance on the issue that got… — Steve Kornacki Copy Share Image
The riot isn't seen in the movie, but it is alluded to. He has this one speech that gives a great sense… — Debbie Allen Copy Share Image
Some people only speak of freedom of speech while they're out of power. Once they're in power, they're ruthless in suppressing the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
You think about every piece of idiomatic speech adopted by white men over the past ten or twenty years; virtually all of… — Jess Row Copy Share Image
The areas of the brain that have to do with speech are very connected with the same parallel processors that have to… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
An unsuccessful manager blames failure on his obligations; the effective manager turns them to his own advantage. A speech is a chance… — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share Image
I didn't talk to anybody and say, "I'm going to do a speech, do you go some ideas?" This is something I… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
In very ancient times of human evolution upon earth, humanity's revelation in word and sound was not differentiated in song and speech,… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
When Minutemen leader Jim Gilchrist and his black colleague Marvin Stewart were invited by the College Republicans to speak at Columbia last… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Several speeches were made by the chiefs during the council, all expressive in the highest degree of their friendly disposition towards our… — William Henry Ashley Copy Share Image
I see this in the way that sermons are preached. How would you give a Black Nationalist speech or campaign for the… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
“We’re not dreamers. We’re awaking from a dream turning into a nightmare. We’re not destroying anything. We’re watching the system destroy itself.” — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
Silence is the Mother of Truth, for the silent man was ever to be trusted, while the man ever ready with speech… — Luther Standing Bear Copy Share Image
This is my maiden voyage. My first speech since I was the president of the United States and I couldn't think of… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
My fee, if I select the subject, is $150; if your committee selects the subject, the charge is $250, but in either… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Copy Share Image
