Speech Quotes · Page 59

Baseball is to our everyday experience what poetry often is to common speech — a slightly elevated and concentrated form.

— Thomas Boswell

Speeches are more important in politics than talking points, as a rule, and are better remembered.

— Peggy Noonan

My plainness of speech makes people hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.

— Plato

[...] [E]very citizen has to avoid any activities and speeches that harm the image of the country and interests of the people.

— Thein Sein

“A powerful process automatically takes care of progress, productivity and profits.”

— Amit Kalantri

My father always said that too many words cheapened the value of a man's speech.

— Patricia Briggs

It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.

— Tennessee Williams

There is freedom of speech in Iran, but there's no freedom after you've spoken.

— Shappi Khorsandi

One day I heard a speech of Hitler. In this speech he said that the German factory worker and the German labourer…

— Fritz Sauckel

It's good that the first half of the speech emphasized freedom, because George W. Bush has been the global champion for freedom.…

— Ernest Istook

Sign language is the equal of speech, lending itself equally to the rigorous and the poetic, to philosophical analysis or to making…

— Oliver Sacks

I watched her do speeches, but the only footage we could find of [princess] Margaret was archive footage, which was of her…

— Vanessa Kirby

I'm so tired of the left trying to divide us by race. One of the things I said today in my speech,…

— Bobby Jindal

Silence has sometimes a remarkable power of showing itself as the disembodied soul of feeling wandering without its carcase, and it is…

— Thomas Hardy

All men are really most attracted by the beauty of plain speech, and they even write in a florid style in imitation…

— Henry David Thoreau

Free speech rights means that government officials are barred from creating lists of approved and disapproved political ideas and then using the…

— Glenn Greenwald

Forget what you learned about poetry in school. (That it's complex, opaque, a problem to be solved in 1500 words by tomorrow.)…

— Garrison Keillor

The need to make music, and to listen to it, is universally expressed by human beings. I cannot imagine, even in our…

— Lewis Thomas

Contrary to popular misconception, Islam does not mean peace but rather means submission to the commands of Allah alone. Therefore, Muslims do…

— Anjem Choudary

Regardless of communication between man and man, speech is a necessary condition for the thinking of the individual in solitary seclusion. In…

— Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben

The superior excellence imputed to the book, which imitates the products of antique and obsolete processes, is conceived to be chiefly a…

— Thorstein Veblen

Whenever a man talks he lies, and so far as he talks to himself - that is to say, so far as…

— Miguel de Unamuno

Like the sorcerer of old, the television set casts its magic spell, freezing speech and action and turning the living into silent…

— Urie Bronfenbrenner

Since 1972, Ive been going around making speeches on the Everglades. No matter how poor my eyes are, I can still talk.…

— Marjory Stoneman Douglas

The best legacy I can leave my children is free speech, and the example of using it.

— Philip Sidney

Speech is the mark of humanity. It is the normal terminus of thought.

— Susanne Katherina Langer

A man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself - like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.

— Jean Kerr

“Before sight, before sound, before smell or speech or feeling - was Addie.”

— Kat Zhang

“other forms of conversation will always remain. Speech, for example, and writing.”

— Neil Postman

While you make pretty speeches I'm being cut to shreds You feed me to the lions A delicate balance.

— Thom Yorke

Ideas are inflammable. This doesn't mean, of course, that they shouldn't be expressed freely.

— Norah Vincent

Lord Chancellor, did I deliver the speech well? I am glad of that, for there was nothing in it.

— George III

Swear words and profanities are mere abbreviations of speech, similar to the abbreviations in writing.

— Franz Grillparzer

All the big powers they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right.

— Jack Kevorkian

The 1st Amendment protects the right to speak, not the right to spend.

— Byron White

I was 5 when I got the speech about how I would have to work harder and longer than everyone else because…

— Sabaa Tahir

“This can't be constitutional," he said. "This is America, damn it. We still have freedom of speech here.”

— Bentley Little

Aggressive civil disobedience should be confined to a vindication of the right of free speech and free association.

— Mahatma Gandhi

It is well, when in difficulties, to say never a word, neither black nor white. Speech is silver but silence is golden.

— Muriel Spark

“Before we complicated life with money, machines and missiles we did well with morals, manpower and meetings.”

— Amit Kalantri