Speech Quotes · Page 44

Silence is a figure of speech, unanswerable, short, cold, but terribly severe.

— Theodore Parker

I would not be able to sleep at night and I would practice my Grammys speech. That was definitely me.

— Gabriella Wilson

Eloquent speech is not from lip to ear, but rather from heart to heart.

— William Jennings Bryan

Israel is a country that respects freedom - freedom of assembly, freedom of speech and freedom of worship.

— George Pataki

Mum would have a panic attack if she had to stand up and give a speech around a table.

— Lily James

“Making a product is just an activity, making a profit on a product is the achievement.”

— Amit Kalantri

The beginning of philosophy is the recognition of the conflict between opinions.

— Epictetus

The first exception [to the First Amendment] will not be the last.

— Ira Glasser

The Internet is a powerful example of free speech and the free market in action; it is curious that the Net has…

— Denise Caruso

Donald Trump, when he gives his speeches, talks like a populist. And he talks to middle class and working America and poor…

— Charles Schumer

“...unfortunately in the matter of Speech Defects, when so much depends on the temperament and individuality, a case can always be produced…

— Mark Logue

My poems are more my silence than my speech. Just as music is a kind of quiet. Sounds are needed only to…

— Anna Kamienska

The problem with people who live in a world of speeches and books and theories is they don't know how to fix…

— Kathleen Troia McFarland

There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and…

— Winston Churchill

Reason leavened with a little wit (if possible) is the real alternative to hate speech, meaning that there's no better time for…

— Walter Kirn

Reading in the third millennium B.C. may therefore have been a matter of hearing the cuneiform, that is, hallucinating the speech from…

— Julian Jaynes

Manchester United could have any goalkeeper in the world. I was a 23-year-old kid from New Jersey who, from an early age,…

— Tim Howard

I get flack for saying [when I visit a college and give a speech], "This is a nice college, but the really…

— Charlie Munger

I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually called. I…

— James M. Cain

Objectivity and again objectivity, and expression: no hindside-before-ness, no straddled adjectives (as "addled mosses dank"), no Tennysonianness of speech; nothing-nothing that you…

— Ezra Pound

It's remarkable to watch the president, with all the weight of his ability to command rhetoric with the bully pulpit behind him,…

— Josh Fox

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

— Philip Roth

Persuasion is achieved by the speaker's personal character when the speech is so spoken as to make us think him credible. We…

— Aristotle

Does it ever give thee pause that men used to have a soul? Not by hearsay alone, or as a figure of…

— Thomas Carlyle

I generally feel that the solution to speech that people find offensive is more speech. You should talk about it, discuss it.

— Jake Tapper

“In a noisy place I can’t understand speech, because I cannot screen out the background noise.”

— Temple Grandin

The six great gifts of an Irish girl are beauty, soft voice, sweet speech, wisdom, needlework, and chastity.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Humans are still much better than computers at recognizing speech.

— Geoffrey Hinton

“Ownership of speech is the greatest ego. Ownership of the body prevails naturally, but the main self prevails in speech.”

— Dada Bhagwan

The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.

— Abbie Hoffman

The best time to end your speech is when you feel the listening is lessening.

— Vikrant Parsai

Speech is the representation of the mind, and writing is the representation of speech.

— Aristotle

I am sorry to have made such a long speech, but I did not have time to write a shorter one.

— Winston Churchill

Whatever doubt there may be as to the quality or purpose of our free speech we certainly have ample volumes in production.

— Herbert Hoover

Words are the weak support of cold indifference; love has no language to be heard.

— William Congreve

I have grown up in a country where we are told that there is freedom of speech.

— Jwala Gutta

It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.

— Anonymous

I'm defending free speech pretty much all over the place because you still have freedom of speech.

— Larry the Cable Guy

In all sincere speech there is power, not necessarily great power, but as much as the speaker is capable of.

— George Henry Lewes