“Okay, let's put this another way―if what you're about to say wouldn't look good permanently engraved on your tombstone, bite your tongue.… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Motion pictures are of course a different medium of expression than the public speech, the radio, the stage, the novel, or the… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
No machines will ever truly fully figure the brain out, because the brain's performance is constantly altered or else constrained by this… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
Every man should study conciseness in speaking; it is a sign of ignorance not to know that long speeches, though they may… — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
The fool thinks he has won a battle when he bullies with harsh speech, but knowing how to be forbearing alone makes… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
I didn't wake up one day and just couldn't hear. I woke up one day and realized I was having difficulty, and… — Mandy Harvey Copy Share Image
“Speech, so a wise old Frenchman said to me once, is an invention of man's to prevent him from thinking. It is… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
It has always seemed a cruel joke to me that the very word 'stutter' is difficult for many stutterers to pronounce. It… — Kate Forsyth Copy Share Image
“Speechlessness, however, affirmed in the diagnosis, is carefully based on the facts of the examination, as we see by rendering the statements… — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
I don't think that the forms of feminism that are prevailing on campus are left wing. It's a conservative form of feminism… — Laura Kipnis Copy Share Image
Everyone gets surprised because neither one of my parents play golf. Like I said in my speech, my aunt and uncle really… — Lydia Ko Copy Share Image
One of the tricks is to have the exposition conveyed in a scene of conflict, so that a character is forced to… — Ernest Lehman Copy Share Image
By speech first, but far more by writing, man has been able to put something of himself beyond death. In tradition and… — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
“Repeatedly courts turned to the First Amendment. The right to speak is fundamental, but is limited or regulated under myriad circumstances. You… — Michael Waldman Copy Share Image
The two things I'm most excited about are self-driving cars and speech. Speech doesn't sound like that much, but it's one of… — Andrew Ng Copy Share Image
What was really interesting in his speech, which, by the way, had (inaudible) footnotes - the written version of it - which… — Avik Roy Copy Share Image
Clint Eastwood's speech was kind of a metaphor for the entire Republican Party: A confused old person yelling at something that doesn't… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Nobody is capable of of free speech unless he knows how to use language, and such knowledge is not a gift: it… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Convention speeches are powerful tools to bend the curve of public opinion. George H. W. Bush's 1988 convention speech is a great… — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
O Lord, I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor since you have spoken to your servant. I am slow… — Moses Copy Share Image
I'm originally from southern California, so I, like, say 'like', like, a lot. I've been trying to scrub any traces of Valley… — Mara Wilson Copy Share Image
“Now that your speech impediment has been rectified, perhaps you might say something. It would be best if it were humorous. I… — Danielle L. Jensen Copy Share Image
Advocates of 'free speech' often repeat the mantra that the best response to bad speech is more and better speech, not the… — Jackson Katz Copy Share Image
Language is an impure medium. Speech is public property and words are the soiled products, not of nature, but of society, which… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Eloquence is the language of nature, and cannot be learned in the schools; but rhetoric is the creature of art, which he… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
No phrase can convey the idea of surprise so vividly as opening the eyes and raising the eyebrows. A shrug of the… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
You must be Pain in the Nick.” – Dev “Huh?” – Nick “Don’t wet your pets. Just a figure of speech. Your… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Go out and make your own speeches. People need you. Go on TV. It can be done. After you speak up a… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The virtue of a democratic system with a [constitutionally guaranteed right to free speech] is that it readily enables the people, over… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
Freedom of speech means nothing to a people who are too weak in their convictions to speak out against the evil that… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
Let eloquence be flung to the dogs rather than souls be lost. What we want is to win souls. They are not… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I speak onstage to try to establish some method of communication. The songs are supposed to be a way of communicating. But… — Jarvis Cocker Copy Share Image
Living with a stammer is difficult. It's a daily uphill struggle with emotional baggage weighing you down. You can't be the person… — Gareth Gates Copy Share Image
Everyone asks for freedom for himself, The man free love, the businessman free trade, The writer and talker free speech and free… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
His ear heard more than what was said to him, and his slow speech had overtones not of thought, but of understanding… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Having served in eleven Parliaments, it would be difficult to describe this as a maiden speech. It would be like Elizabeth Taylor… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
Sarah Silverman. She's the reason I do comedy. Her DNC speech was my favorite thing I ever heard. Sitting down with her… — Nikki Glaser Copy Share Image
“If every statement is incomplete and every expression is situated upon a silent tacit comprehension, then it must be that things are… — Merleau-Ponty Maurice Copy Share Image
There is also an insulting speech about 'one grey day just like another'. You might as well talk about one green tree… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
In mainstream literature, a trope is a figure of speech: metaphor, simile, irony, or the like. Words used other than literally. In… — Edward M. Lerner Copy Share Image
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