Speech Quotes · Page 42

Metaphor has traditionally been regarded as the matrix and pattern of the figures of speech.

— Marshall McLuhan

The First Amendment...begins with the five loveliest words in the English language: 'Congress shall make no law'.

— George Will

Speech is the organ of this present world. Silence is the mystery of the world to come.

— Isaac of Nineveh

It is a great misfortune not to possess sufficient wit to speak well, nor sufficient judgment to keep silent.

— Jean de la Bruyere

I have a voice, too, and for good or evil mine is the speech that cannot be silenced

— Joseph Conrad

Homo-sexuals should not be censored, but neither should those who oppose their point of view. That's called free speech.

— Cal Thomas

Rarely has a people paid the lavish compliment and taken the subtle revenge of turning its oppressor's speech into sorcery.

— Bill Vaughan

Moderate people are able to be moderate and have free speech only because there are some people on the fringe.

— Patrick Chappatte

Liberty of conscience is nowadays only understood to be the liberty of believing what men please, but also of endeavoring to propagate…

— Jonathan Swift

How many watched the President's speech last night? [half-hearted audience applause] How many watched American Idol ? [thundering applause] Okay, there you…

— Jay Leno

President Bush gave a rousing speech to the United Nations General Assembly. Afterward, in a touching show of support, every foreign dignitary…

— Tina Fey

I am against conversion (to Buddhism). In my speech at UN, the first thing I said was that I am for conversion,…

— S. N. Goenka

Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift of articulate speech: that your native language is…

— George Bernard Shaw

We're already cyborgs. Your phone and your computer are extensions of you, but the interface is through finger movements or speech, which…

— Elon Musk

Giving back, doing motivational speeches and stuff like that, that's always made me feel good. If you repeatedly go out there, and…

— Keke Palmer

Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the impression that their style was nursed by…

— Thornton Wilder

The state says: "Well, in order for it to be legitimate civil disobedience, you have to follow these rules." They put us…

— Edward Snowden

I am not here to pass civilities or compliments with you, but on other business. I have stood your meanness as long…

— Nathan Bedford Forrest

“To whom does Mataji (Mother Goddess) appear? It is to the one who becomes natural and spontaneous [sahaj swabhavi]. Mataji is said…

— Dada Bhagwan

After the Tiananmen Massacre, I felt compelled not only to continue writing but to actively resist the restrictions placed on freedom of…

— Ma Jian

During a recent event at a restaurant called Tommy's Country Ham House in South Carolina, presidential candidate Ben Carson delivered a speech…

— Jimmy Fallon

Well, one time some attractive woman sat next to Charlie and asked him what he owed his success to, and, unfortunately, she…

— Warren Buffett

Once upon a time, when men and women hurtled through the air on metal wings, when they wore webbed feet and walked…

— Anonymous

“The reason that certain tender subjects are avoided and forbidden in all other clubs is because those clubs consist of more than…

— Mark Twain

This decision is an illustration that freedom of speech still protects average people sitting on a street corner singing.

— John Morrison

There is no such thing as a nonpolitical speech by a politician.

— Richard M. Nixon

The music that can deepest reach and cure all ill is cordial speech.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If Five’s speech – clearly for our benefit – has revealed anything, it’s that he’s pretty much lost his mind.”

— Pittacus Lore

The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

If someone offends you by speech, you must learn to defend yourself by speech.

— Camille Paglia

“It is a sense of possessiveness and inner attachment (parigraha) for speech to ask, "How did I speak?”

— Dada Bhagwan

The spirit of the First Amendment has been effectively repealed for conservative speech by a censorious, accusatory mob.

— Ann Coulter

As to Magyar, I think that my speech was incorrect, inappropriate.

— Bela Kun

“Does he not realize that facial expressions are supposed to accompany speech?”

— Colleen Hoover

Sometimes, a word succeeds beyond the wildest dreams of its creators, like a virus sent into the world to infect common speech.

— Jasper Fforde

We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about; what they care about is the picture.

— Madeleine Albright

Barbara Jordan is one [of the political heroes]. Her 1976 speech in New York inspired me to get into politics.

— Donna Brazile

Cultivate a sweet temper and the sweet speech which is its natural consequence.

— Sathya Sai Baba

The truth is libraries are raucous clubhouses for free speech, controversy and community.

— Paula Poundstone

I regard freedom of expression as the primary right without which one can not have a proper functioning democracy.

— Lord Hailsham