I played Thersites and I remember we were also doing some places out of town before starting our run at The Old… — Matt Lucas Copy Share Image
We have to look at the figures of speech a writer uses, his images and symbols, to realize that underneath all the… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
In laboring to be concise, I become obscure. [Lat., Brevis esse laboro, obscurus fio.] — Horace Copy Share Image
There is no traitor like him whose domestic treason plants the poniard within the breast that trusted to his truth — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
In the US the problem has been, for instance, that Nazis have rights of free expression, right? But other kinds of racist… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
The corporate scandals are getting bigger and bigger. In a speech on Wall Street, President Bush spoke out on corporate responsibility, and… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
Speech belongs half to the speaker, half to the listener. The latter must prepare to receive it according to the motion it… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
It's funny that we think of libraries as quiet demure places where we are shushed by dusty, bun-balancing, bespectacled women. The truth… — Paula Poundstone Copy Share Image
A good argument diluted to avoid criticism is not nearly as good as the undiluted argument, because we best arrive at truth… — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
Words are the weak support of cold indifference; love has no language to be heard. — William Congreve Copy Share Image
He that would speak Divine things in a language which living men of to-day can comprehend, must keep up with the researches… — John H. Vincent Copy Share Image
“Does any one suppose that private prayer is necessarily candid—necessarily goes to the roots of action? Private prayer is inaudible speech, and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Free speech, free press, free religion, the right of free assembly, yes, the right of petition... well, they are still radical ideas. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
The right to enjoy property without unlawful deprivation, no less that the right to speak out or the right to travel is,… — Potter Stewart Copy Share Image
The most noble and profitable invention of all other, was that of SPEECH, consisting of Names or Appellations, and their Connexion; whereby… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Dying, we tell ourselves, is like going to sleep. This figure of speech occurs very commonly in everyday thought and language, as… — Raymond Moody Copy Share Image
With tears running down her face, Cecily had reminded him of the moment at her wedding to Gabriel when he had delivered… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“Good speakers usually find when they finish that there have been four versions of the speech: the one they delivered, the one… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
What are men celebrating? They are all on a committee of arrangements, and hourly expect a speech from somebody. God is only… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Ares always reemerges from the chaos. It will never go away. Athenian civilization defends itself from the forces of Ares with metis,… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
From my earliest days I have enjoyed an attractive impediment in my speech. I have never permitted the use of the word… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It is necessary for those who are sensitive to remain silent. However, rather than remaining silent, it is much better if it… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
I grew up with an absolutely horrible, debilitating stutter, and it was what caused me to retreat into myself and caused me… — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
How ironical that it is by means of speech that man can degrade himself below the level of dumb creation -- for… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should therefore be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
You get to say that the Earth is flat because we live in a country that guarantees your free speech. But it's… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Speech is reason's brother, and a kingly prerogative of man. — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
If there is a series of attacks like that or, God forbid, if ISIS is really sending soldiers across Europe and maybe… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
For instance, in group therapy, I'll have people stand up, show off, give a speech about themselves as though they've just died… — Nancy Friday 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
You cannot extend the mastery of government over the daily life of a people without somewhere making it master of people's souls… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
I don't know if I'd call myself a prodigy, but I was a big forensics competitor in high school, and then during… — Josh Gad Copy Share Image
“Hands can cook, hands can create, hands can kill. There is no better tool than our hands.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Americans' right to free speech should not be proportionate to their bank accounts. — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Old or young, healthy as a horse or a person with a disability that hasn't kept you down, man or woman, Native… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
My life - my personality, my habits, even my speech - is a combination of the books I choose to read, the… — Andy Andrews Copy Share Image
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