I distrust speech therapy. Words are the language of lies and evasions. Music cannot lie. Music talks to the heart. — Alasdair Gray Copy Share Image
All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
As a Shakespeare character, if you can persuade someone in a sentence or a speech, you've got it right. — Tom Sturridge Copy Share Image
Since 1972, I've been going around making speeches on the Everglades. — Marjory Stoneman Douglas Copy Share Image
The truth thy speech doth show, within my heart reproves the swelling pride. — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
You can't stop people from saying their opinions otherwise your stopping them from having freedom of speech. — Kimiko Rei Copy Share Image
You're an old-timer if you can remember when setting the world on fire was a figure of speech. — Franklin P Jones Copy Share Image
All that I am or hope to be I owe to my angel mother. I remember my mother's prayers and they have… — Abraham Lincoln 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
Many believe that Hillary Clinton was channeling President Obama during her recent speech in New York City. She focused on equality, justice,… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Use your heads as you live and work among outsiders. Don't miss a trick. Make the most of every opportunity. Be gracious… — Paul the Apostle Copy Share Image
And why do we, who say we oppose tyranny and demand freedom of speech, allow people to go to prison and be… — David Icke Copy Share Image
When I was in high school in Los Angeles, my mother, who was a speech therapist, agreed to stay over the weekend… — Mona Simpson Copy Share Image
Of themselves diseases come upon men continually by day and by night, bringing mischief to mortals silently; for wise Zeus took away… — Hesiod Copy Share Image
“He knew the way he spoke wasn't right, but it was the only way the words came. The thoughts in his head… — Boris Akunin Copy Share Image
Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river. When the ocean is searching for you, don't walk into the language-river. Listen to… — Rumi Copy Share Image
People are falling all over themselves to send you free shoes and free cufflinks and colonic irrigations for two. Nobody ever offers… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
On May 15, 1957 Linus Pauling made an extraordinary speech to the students of Washington University. ... It was at this time… — Edward Condon Copy Share Image
All art speaks in signs and symbols. No one can explain how it happens that the artist can waken to life in… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Demetrius was wont to say that there was no difference between the words and speech of the unskilled and ignorant and the… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Let there be but two occasions for speech - when the subject is one which you thoroughly know and when it is… — Isocrates Copy Share Image
“...as of this moment there's the police department way, the federal law enforcement way, the military way... and my way. If you… — Jonathan Maberry Copy Share Image
