Speech Quotes · Page 29

The music that of common speech but slanted so that each detail sounds unexpected as a sharp inserted in a simple scale.

— Dana Gioia

Speak but little and well, if you would be esteemed as a man of merit.

— Richard Chenevix Trench

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.

— Anonymous

I love her attitude, but as much as I'd like to bring my medals to a speech or appearance, I never do.

— Mary Lou Retton

I can't say I'm not nervous at all with media and doing speeches, but I'm getting used to it and better at…

— Lydia Ko

“is speech a subject's very constitution and assembly, which then makes experience possible.”

— Erin Moure

And endless are the modes of speech, and far Extends from side to side the field of words.

— Homer

As I've been acting since I was young it's taught me to give a good speech, and, though I say so myself,…

— Jonathan Krohn

When I was in New York after I left the Army, I studied for two years at the American Theater Wing, studied…

— James Earl Jones

When I hear Governor Mitt Romney in his speech talk about how the Republican Party must stand for legitimate conservative values. They…

— Rush Limbaugh

Speech is a powerful master and achieves the most divine feats with the smallest and least evident body. It can stop fear,…

— Gorgias

In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It…

— Noam Chomsky

I listened to Hillary [Clinton], and I heard the double talk. She's so good at it, and I'm not making this up,…

— Michael Savage

The voice is raised, and that is where poetry begins. And even today, in the prolonged aftermath of modernism, in places where…

— James Fenton

Each speech having its own character, the poetry it engenders will be peculiar to that speech also in its own intrinsic form.…

— William Carlos Williams

It is within the established American tradition of satire, if America surrenders on this point, the freedom of speech is a relic…

— Pamela Geller

Only in America, Rabbi Golden, do these peasants, our mothers, get their hair dyed platinum at the age of sixty, and walk…

— Philip Roth

Whoever has received knowledge and eloquence in speech from God should not be silent or secretive but demonstrate it willingly. When a…

— Marie de France

According to Solomon, life and death are in the power of the tongue; and as Euripides truly affirmeth, every unbridled tongue in…

— Walter Raleigh

I did play a dentist in Waiting for Guffman. I wrote the speech at the conference. In the original script, when it…

— Samuel L. Jackson

Being right is not too difficult. Your choose your perception. You select your information. You leave out what does not suit you.…

— Edward de Bono

I don't care if Trump has $100 billion. He's earned it. He's had a job. There are ways you can track what…

— Rush Limbaugh

'Children, don't speak so coarsely,' said Mr Webster, who had a vague notion that some supervision should be exercised over his daughters'…

— Robertson Davies

A good argument diluted to avoid criticism is not nearly as good as the undiluted argument, because we best arrive at truth…

— Clarence Thomas

The function of free speech under our system of government is to invite dispute.

— Anonymous

The search for the means to put an end to things, an end to speech, is what enables the discourse to continue.

— Samuel Beckett

I would bet there is no place in the United States where the First Amendment would survive intact.

— Nat Hentoff

The easiest way to stay awake during an after-dinner speech is to deliver it.

— Herman Herst Jr

Prepare your mind and heart before you prepare your speech . What we say may be less important than how we say it.

— Stephen Covey

Depending on your political orientation, the Dixie Chicks are either the great defenders of free speech or American traitors.

— Shawn Amos

“Why only one song, one speech, one text at a time?" - "When Our Lips Speak Together”

— Luce Irigaray

If money is a form of speech, as the Supreme Court has regrettably found, rich donors will always be the loudest speakers.

— Howard Dean

They did something once that slurred my speech, and I thought, "Oh, man, you're messing with my brain. It's freaking me out."

— Michael J. Fox

Never write down your speeches beforehand; if you do, you may perhaps be a good declaimer, but will never be a debater.

— Lord Chesterfield

Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.

— Zhuangzi

Of lovers whose bodies smell of each other Who think the same thoughts without need of speech

— Anonymous

I support freedom of speech - even Pamela Geller's right to her Islamophobic subway posters.

— Mona Eltahawy

Being generous and kindly in speech, doing a good turn for others, and treating all alike. One like this will be praised.

— Gautama Buddha

Chauncy Burr ... talks well, possibly better than he thinks. But this is a common failing.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

My power of speech, unimpeachable. Only 19 but my mind is older.

— Lin-Manuel Miranda