Writing an acceptance speech gives you the expectation of winning, and you are therefore devastated or hurt if you didn't win. — William Shatner Copy Share Image
Doing motivational speeches and stuff like that, that's always made me feel good. — Keke Palmer Copy Share Image
Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
“Take care of your costume and your confidence will take care of itself.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
You never write a speech in advance because if you don't get to use it, you'll be heartbroken. — Octavia Spencer Copy Share Image
Unity is not found in the hateful speech of Congresswomen Ilhan Omar and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez or Congressman Bobby Rush. — Brian Mast Copy Share Image
Wilson was once asked how long it took him to write a speech. He answered, 'That depends. If I am to speak… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you're dealing with a musical in which you're trying to tell a story, it's got to sound like speech. At the… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
Nature, as we say, does nothing without some purpose; and for thepurpose of making mana political animal she has endowed him alone… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It is my responsibility to make sure that the fear is overcome… “This attack must instead free our speech about Islamic fundamentalism.… — Marine Le Pen Copy Share Image
Beneath the surface of repartee and mock seriousness, [Plato's Phaedrus] is asking whether we ought to prefer a neuter form of speech… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
In the years since then, those four freedoms - freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Speech is highly elliptical. It would scarcely be endurable otherwise. Ellipsis is indispensable to the writer or speaker who wants to be… — Bergen Evans Copy Share Image
I do still get extremely nervous before speeches. My biggest fear is that I'll be standing there in front of hundreds of… — Marcus Buckingham Copy Share Image
I've always written. At the age of six or seven, I would get sheets of A4 paper and fold them in half,… — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
How, then, has Obama been saddled with an image of being long on inspiration and short on details? The answer is that… — Howard Kurtz Copy Share Image
I'm one of those people that feels that Americans that shouldn't do Shakespeare... The rhythms of the English language and the mannerisms… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
The nobler sort of man emphasizes the good qualities in others, and does not accentuate the bad. The inferior does the reverse.… — Confucius Copy Share Image
The President [Barack Obama] is very focused on [healthcare]. He, of course, is also writing this speech at high speed. And right… — Ron Suskind Copy Share Image
Without a doubt, one of the things which keeps us from attaining perfection is our tongue. When one has reached the point… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
When we come down into the distant village, visible from the mountain-top, the nobler inhabitants with whom we peopled it have departed,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
So too, monks, I saw the ancient path, the ancient road traveled by the Perfectly Enlightened Ones of the past. And what… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“When ownership of speech ends, there is the end of ‘us’ (relative self).” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
If we don't believe in free expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Not being able to read and write music is not the same as being illiterate in speech and writing. — Yanni Copy Share Image
Freedom of speech is a great thing and we have said nothing that is not allowed. — Geert Wilders Copy Share Image
Self restraint in speech, food, entertainment and vanity are the most essential fundamental of spiritual growth. — Nouman Ali Khan Copy Share Image
Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth, When thought is speech, and speech is truth. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My language! heavens!I am the best of them that speak this speech. Were I but where 'tis spoken. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Protected free speech has boundaries, and one boundary is fraud. — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
One man's blasphemy doesn't override other people's free-speech rights, their freedom to publish, freedom of thought. — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
No human speech comes without error, if it does come without error, then it is God speaking. — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
Fighting is an expression. It's a form of speech, and that's why they call it martial arts. It's an art. — Chael Sonnen Copy Share Image
The true call of the desert, of the mountains, or the sea, is their silence - free of the networks of dead… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech. — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Speech may be silver but silence is golden. Traders with the golden touch do not talk about their success. — Linda Bradford Raschke Copy Share Image
I talked to women who lived there, to get their speech patterns and outlook on life - and how narrow that is. — Ellen Burstyn Copy Share Image
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