Speech Quotes · Page 58

I have but nine-pence in ready money, but I can draw for a thousand pounds.

— Joseph Addison

That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech.

— Lord Byron

They (teenage boys)don’t really listen to speeches or talks. They absorb incrementally, through hours and hours of observation.

— Rob Lowe

It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.

— Herodotus

Speech ... is an invention of man's to prevent him from thinking.

— Agatha Christie

Speech is our second possession, after the soul-and perhaps we have no other possession in this world.

— Gabriela Mistral

A good speech has a beginning, a middle and an end, the best example being, 'I love you.'

— Anonymous

“The decision is your own voice, an opinion is the echo of someone else's voice.”

— Amit Kalantri

By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of…

— Harry A. Blackmun

A leader whose speech is prepared by others is not a leader; he is just an empty and stupid bottle! Use your…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Criticism of government finds sanctuary in several portions of the 1st Amendment. It is part of the right of free speech. It…

— Hugo Black

In commendably seeking to protect freedom of speech, we must not lower our defences against the evil of racial and religious intolerance.

— Barry O'Farrell

I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence…

— Federico Fellini

“What makes music beautiful is the distance between one note and another. What makes speech eloquent is the appropriate pause between words.…

— Haemin Sunim

Stand-up comedy and comedy in general is the ultimate form of free speech, because you get to poke holes in all the…

— Denis Leary

Prayer is the little implement Through which Men reach Where Presence - is denied them. They fling their Speech By means of…

— Emily Dickinson

Youth is terrible: it is a stage trod by children in buskins and a variety of costumes mouthing speeches they've memorized and…

— Milan Kundera

Our institutions, if they do not erode entirely, can survive periods of decadence brought on by our material success, eras when the…

— Victor Davis Hanson

During Mr. Reagan's trip to Europe...members of the traveling press corps watched him doze off so many times--during speeches by French President…

— Mark Hertsgaard

In ordinary speech the words perception and sensation tend to be used interchangeably, but the psychologist distinguishes. Sensations are the items of…

— Jacques Barzun

The President didn't offer any clarity in his latest speech about what he would do to tackle our nation's debt before it…

— Paul Ryan

The Framers of the First Amendment were not concerned with preventing government from abridging their freedom to speak about crops and cockfighting,…

— George Will

“Speech is such definite thing ... Maybe it's a matter if sincerity. I'm never that certain of anything I feel about a…

— Andrew McGahan

What then, is correctness of speech but the maintenance of the practice of others, as established by the authority of ancient speakers?…

— Anonymous

The superior man * * * in regard to his speech * * * is anxious that it should be sincere.

— Confucius

Give me an opportunity to fail," Saiman said. "I promise my corpse won't interrupt your 'I told you so' speech.

— Ilona Andrews

“I swear that white folks need to just shut the hell up sometimes. Y'all make it hard for everybody.”

— Kiese Laymon

So many times, I have a speech ready but no dice. Always a bridesmaid, never a mother.

— Michael Curtiz

Free speech is the bedrock of liberty and a free society. And yes, it includes the right to blaspheme and offend.

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Prayer needs no speech. It is in itself independent of any sensuous effort. But it must be combined with the utmost humility.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“A comment that starts with the words "I think" usually means the opposite.”

— Jack Gardner

I may not agree with what you have to say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

— Voltaire

The problem with speeches isn't so much not knowing when to stop, as knowing when not to begin.

— Frances Rodman

The very best impromptu speeches are the ones written well in advance.

— Ruth Gordon

“War is not just the shower of bullets and bombs from both sides, it is also the shower of blood and bones…

— Amit Kalantri

At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer.

— Marshall Lumsden

Prussia: freedom of movement with a muzzle. Austria: an isolation cell in which screaming is allowed.

— Karl Kraus

Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.

— Hermann Hesse

[Albert] Camus writes his acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize in thanks to his teacher.

— Catherine Camus

It's a rare political speech that, two years after it is delivered, can still be quoted verbatim around the world.

— Cathy Newman