“The only benefit a woman can have in talking too much is defeating a man who troubles her too much.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
I don't rely on the media. I usually average one speech a day for 25 years. People know me because I'm out there. — Joe Arpaio Copy Share Image
He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction (Proverbs 13:3). — Bible Copy Share Image
Commercial speech is like obscenity... we can't seem to define it, but we know it when we see it. — Jef I Richards Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, opponents of online speech have decided to punish our changing technological world. — Dennis Hastert Copy Share Image
I've decided to cut out the part of the speech where I say anything nice about Democrats. — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe. — Jimmy Durante Copy Share Image
I have no problem with free speech, but free speech and then silencing your opposition - boy, I have a problem with… — Tomi Lahren Copy Share Image
If you actually believe in free speech and not simply the free distribution of other people's intellectual property, you should let journalists,… — Glenn Kelman Copy Share Image
And a democracy can't exist without free speech and the right to assemble. And that's what Americans tend to forget. And they're… — Larry Flynt Copy Share Image
The word is a bouncing ball The ruler throws from his balcony. The word has been a shot of morphine. Rulers calm… — Nizar Qabbani Copy Share Image
I feel like if I won an award and I was giving my speech and the music started, that's all I'd remember,… — Seth Rogen Copy Share Image
We are unalterably opposed to the presentation of the female body being stripped, bound, raped, tortured, mutilated, and murdered in the name… — Susan Brownmiller Copy Share Image
There is no happiness, there is no liberty, there is no enjoyment of life, unless a man can say, when he rises… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
My speech is really important to me, but the thing is at the moment it can't be more important than my singing.… — Gareth Gates Copy Share Image
Condoleezza Rice, the national security adviser, is right there... she's in town because her father was at Johnson Smith College... and she… — Al Michaels Copy Share Image
If the devil never roars, the Church will never sing! God is not doing much if the devil is not awake and… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I believe in fiction and the power of stories because that way we speak in tongues. We are not silenced. All of… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Many words and expressions which only a matter of decades ago were considered so distastefully explicit that, were they merely to be… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
The social or economic structure of the ideal state is of little concern to me. My desires are modest. Portraits of the… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
During the Q&A periods after my speeches, it is the men who say to me, "Help me understand how I am going… — Vicki Donlan Copy Share Image
Exploring and understanding the Net is an ongoing process. Cyberspace never sits still; it evolves as fast as society itself. Only if… — Mike Godwin Copy Share Image
So you say, with your shiny hair and pouty lips - and those breasts - just wait till you start dropping whelps,… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
For the average American, freedom of speech is simply the freedom to repeat what everyone else is saying and no more. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“Don't exercise your freedom of speech until you have exercised your freedom of thought.” — Tim Fargo Copy Share Image
The most difficult thing to understand during conversation is silence. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
One feels 'the dearth of human words, the roughness of mortal speech' in trying to describe things intangible. — Ernest Shackleton Copy Share Image
O my mind,Make your speech egoless.Then everyoneWill appreciate, admire and adore you. — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
Learned conversation is either the affectation of the ignorant or the profession of the mentally unemployed. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Protesters can't violate First Amendment rights. Only the government can do that. — Kirsten Powers Copy Share Image
Poetry is the silence and speech between a wet struggling root of a flower and a sunlit blossom of that flower. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
Welcome! To our old hands...welcome back! There is a time for speech-making, and this is not it. Tuck in! — Albus Dumbledore Copy Share Image
Martin Luther King gave the 'I Have a Dream' speech, not the 'I Have a Plan' speech. — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
Nearly every politician plagiarizes their speeches, because nearly every politician has a speech writer do the work for them. — Ana Kasparian Copy Share Image
Silence often expresses 'more powerfully than speech the verdict and judgment of society. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
It is difficult to tell how much men's minds are conciliated by a kind manner and gentle speech. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
One of the most difficult speeches to prepare is an address to a graduation class, which is why I don't often do… — Jerry Moran Copy Share Image
Corporations have free speech, but they can't speak like you and me. They don't have mouths or hands ... — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be… — Sophocles Copy Share Image