Speech Quotes · Page 56

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

— Dana Gioia

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

— Anonymous

“Speech is like an arrow; it is necessary to aim it by way of reflection before uttering anything.”

— Burhan al-Din Al-Zarnuji

“With discipline, you can lose weight, you can excel in work, you can win the war.”

— Amit Kalantri

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

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

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

— Anonymous

The Class Clown album was done totally sober. I'd realized what a hell I'd made for myself and I cleaned up completely…

— George Carlin

“For if men needed speech in order to learn to think, they had a still greater need for knowing how to think…

— Anonymous

A city built upon mud; A culture built upon profit; Free speech nipped in the bud, The minority always guilty. Why should…

— Louis MacNeice

We are marking the anniversary of the Arctic convoys.We really do consider members of the Arctic convoy to be heroes. This is…

— Vladimir Putin

“Alex Haley once said that the best way to begin a speech is “Let me tell you a story.” Nobody is eager…

— Walter Isaacson

People can do bad things with free speech as well as good. You have to defend the Ku Klux Klan as well…

— Salman Rushdie

People ask me if I miss the States. I miss African Americans. But not the U.S. government or all the things they…

— Assata Shakur

“It is necessary for those who are sensitive to remain silent. However, rather than remaining silent, it is much better if it…

— Dada Bhagwan

The only valid reason to use clichés is in the speech of a character. Cliches are indications of sloppy writing. The writer…

— Leonard Bishop

Prayer is sort of like an unlocked door with a giant, red-lettered sign on it that says: "Welcome. Feel Free to Take…

— Gloria Gaither

America comes with both rights and responsibilities. You have, for example, the right to free speech, but you have the responsibility to…

— Glenn Beck

“The Artificial’s speech pattern was an idiosyncratic mix of awkward and colloquial. It was unexpectedly endearing. “I just have good instincts. Mostly…

— G.S. Jennsen

I've had my breath taken away when a fan told me since watching my speech she has stopped herself being beaten up…

— Emma Watson

I now understand what Nelle Morton meant when she said that one of the great tasks in our time is to "hear…

— Parker J. Palmer

The government being the people's business, it necessarily follows that its operations should be at all times open to the public view.…

— Anonymous

... whatever men do or know or experience can make sense only to the extent that it can be spoken about. There…

— Hannah Arendt

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

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

— Nat Hentoff

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

— Samuel Beckett

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

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

— Herman Herst Jr

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

— Anonymous

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

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

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

— Luce Irigaray

Surely whoever speaks to me in the right voice, him or her shall I follow.

— Walt Whitman

“Introverts rather die than volunteer to give a speech in public.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

I couldn't speak well. I went to speech therapy for 10 years. And I was sort of frustrated in that sense.

— Walter Dean Myers