The task is to investigate speech sounds in relation to the meanings with which they are invested, i.e., sounds viewed as signifiers,… — Roman Jakobson Copy Share Image
“In your name, the family name is at last because it's the family name that lasts.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
I can no longer type, so I use TalkingPoint and Dragon Dictate. It's a speech-to-text program, and there's an add-on for talking… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I will get into trouble, I am sure, because since my Kate Middleton speech and before, certain papers were after me. I… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
The most effective way to combat speech you don’t like is with speech. — Peter Salovey Copy Share Image
Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus. — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
Who that has heard a strain of music feared then lest he should speak extravagantly any more forever? — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In a good play every speech should be as fully flavored as a nut or apple. — John Millington Synge Copy Share Image
There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or it can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in its altered… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
One unexpectedly striking moment, when Tom Amandes as Lincoln, recites the Gettysburg Address, not in booming, this-is-a-great-speech style, but casually, as if… — Neil Genzlinger Copy Share Image
You are good when you are fully awake in your speech, Yet you are not evil when you sleep while your tongue… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
We won't tolerate abuses and crimes made every day in the name of freedom of speech. That is freedom of extortion and… — Rafael Correa Copy Share Image
He called for military supremacy, no welfare and cultural rebirth. It was a nice speech, but it sounded a lot better in… — Argus Hamilton Copy Share Image
In a speech today, President Obama said that Michelle Obama is very strong and talented and she frequently tells him that he… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
“I came into the room, which was half dark, and presently spotted Lord Kelvin in the audience and realised that I was… — Ernest Rutherford Copy Share Image
It seems to me it's perfectly possible to vehemently disagree with a piece of work and to say that it's offensive and… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
After reading hundreds of e-mails, I have made MY decision. By pulling my opening Oct 3rd, You (ESPN) stepped on the Toes… — Hank Williams, Jr Copy Share Image
It's not about contraception. It's about economic liberty, it's about freedom of speech, it's about freedom of religion, it's about government control… — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
[Albert] Camus writes his acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize in thanks to his teacher. — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
You talk to me in parables. You may have known that I'm no wordy man, Fine speeches are the instruments of knaves… — Thomas Otway Copy Share Image
I grew up under Communism so we could only learn Russian, and then when Communism fell in 1989 we could learn a… — Petra Nemcova Copy Share Image
If there were some solitary or feral man, the passions of the soul would be sufficient for him; by them he would… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Since There are so many questions about what the president was doing over 30 years ago, what is it that he did… — Jeff Gannon Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton made $21.6 million giving speeches to Wall Street banks and other special interests and, in less than two years, secret… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
We are to have no pictures which the puritan and the narrow, animated by an obsolete dogma, cannot approve of. We are… — Theodore Dreiser 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
America is a mess. And that's why when Hillary Clinton makes the speech, she doesn't talk about radical Islam. She doesn't talk… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Any man or woman who neglects to maintain inward vigilance, and only makes an outward show of holiness in dress, speech, and… — Walter Hilton Copy Share Image
A state that suppresses all freedom of speech, and which by imposing the most terrible punishments, treats each and every attempt at… — Kurt Huber Copy Share Image
“Before we complicated life with money, machines and missiles we did well with morals, manpower and meetings.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
My school friends thought I was outgoing and bubbly, but that masked a lot of insecurities, and maybe that's the reason I… — Deborah Mailman Copy Share Image
Confidence, of course is an admirable asset to a golfer, but it should be an unspoken confidence. It is perilous to put… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom; and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
In the end, what would you gain from everlasting remembrance? Absolutely nothing. So what is left worth living for? This alone: justice… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Maybe when they no longer receive Sierra magazine in their mailboxes, journalists will understand how campaign finance reform abridges free speech. — Matt Welch Copy Share Image
I realized, "Oh my god, this is an enormous play. And it's almost all me. Big. big chunks of speeches, speeches, speeches."… — Bryan Cranston Copy Share Image
This rule of silence is upheld when the culture refuses everyone easy access even to the word “patriarchy.” Most children do not… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image