The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter and a scarcity of… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I am a breast cancer survivor. I was intrigued to learn how many people prefer to talk to someone if they are… — Diahann Carroll Copy Share Image
…always felt the pain of her friends so keenly that she could not speak easy, fluent words of comforting. Besides, she remembered… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If what distinguishes us from other species is speech, then poetry, which is the supreme linguistic operation, is our anthropological - indeed,… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
People should talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speech altogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make sure my speeches are… — Malcolm Turnbull Copy Share Image
To die: - to sleep: No more; and, by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Dialogue, contrary to popular view, is not a recording of actual speech; it is a semblance of speech, an invented language of… — Sol Stein Copy Share Image
It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy books and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, lessens the friction of social contacts. It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and bravely… — Clare Boothe Luce Copy Share Image
I have long suspected that the power of speech is not a power at all, but a mere form of hysteria from… — Corra May Harris Copy Share Image
Reasons are the spoils of victory. When you've destroyed the enemy, then your leaders write down the reasons in books, and give… — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
Islam doesn't try to destroy cultures; it cleans them up. You can keep your language but get rid of your racist speech.… — Nouman Ali Khan Copy Share Image
Most of Roosevelt's innovations have been the law of the land for 70 years now, and yet we are still a free… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
I do not know what might be the most fitting description… I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Striking a balance in favor of individual rights has always been the right decision for us and that it remains so even… — Mike Godwin Copy Share Image
The problem with restraining speech is, who gets to set the rules? If it's only okay in a certain time or place,… — Huey Freeman Copy Share Image
How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
If I had been an Italian I am sure that I should have been whole-heartedly with you from the start to finish… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
As entertainers, you're afraid [about] loss of income - but if other people start going to jail for free speech, then we've… — Killer Mike Copy Share Image
Confidence, of course is an admirable asset to a golfer, but it should be an unspoken confidence. It is perilous to put… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
[A digital snapshot] is meant primarily as a means of communication, and the images being sent are almost as ephemeral as speech,… — Geoffrey Batchen Copy Share Image
This Thursday, Barack Obama is gonna give his acceptance speech, and reportedly it's going to include performances by Bon Jovi and Bruce… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
“Speech that compliments is, by definition, free from derision, which clouds the mind with enemies and makes it tense. Kind speech makes… — Sylvia Boorstein Copy Share Image
Our job isn't to defend freedom of speech, but without freedom of speech we are dead. We can't live in a country… — Charb Copy Share Image
[The Muse of our Fiction of the future] will lead you - if you are humble and honest with her - straight… — Frank Norris Copy Share Image
Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
Speech, after all, is in some measure an expression of character, and flexibility in its use is a good way to tell… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Geraldo has been in Lebanon. He has done some excellent reporting out of there, and of course, we now know by virtue… — Brit Hume Copy Share Image
As any custom is disused, the words that expressed it must perish with it; as any opinion grows popular, it will innovate… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A lot of men who have accepted - or had imposed upon them in boyhood - the old English public school styles… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
Vocabulary enables us to interpret and to express. If you have a limited vocabulary, you will also have a limited vision and… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
Mr. Greer timed all our speeches with an oven timer. Things were nothing at Tribeca Alternative, considered one of Manhattan's finest prep… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
“Prince's words had not been meant as a warning. Rather, he had been playing. He had been pretending. He had been speaking… — André Alexis Copy Share Image
The First Amendment is the First Amendment for a reason - our most cherished right. But it often creates muddy and uncomfortable… — Rod Lurie Copy Share Image
My life - my personality, my habits, even my speech - is a combination of the books I choose to read, the… — Andy Andrews Copy Share Image
The Bill of Rights was intended to secure freedom of speech - the freedom of speech of members of parliament to speak… — William Hague Copy Share Image
Out of evil comes good, however, and the confusion of tongues gave rise to 'the ancient practice of Masons conversing without the… — A. E. Waite Copy Share Image
I haven’t prepared my speech yet,” I sighed and Tove stood up. “What should I say about him?” “Well, if you plan… — Amanda Hocking Copy Share Image
All the words in the English language are divided into nine great classes. These classes are called the Parts of Speech. They… — Joseph Devlin Copy Share Image
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![“[A digital snapshot] is meant primarily as a means of communication, and the images being sent are almost as ephemeral as speech, so rarely are they printed and made physical.” quote by Geoffrey Batchen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f70/geoffrey-batchen-50812_communication_a-digital-snapshot-is-meant-primarily-as_1012912.jpg)
![“Speech that compliments is, by definition, free from derision, which clouds the mind with enemies and makes it tense. Kind speech makes the mind feel safe and also glad. [p.74]” quote by Sylvia Boorstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1e2/sylvia-boorstein-7241_communication_speech-that-compliments-is-by-definition_2924628.png)
![“[The Muse of our Fiction of the future] will lead you - if you are humble and honest with her - straight into a World of Working Men, crude of speech, swift of action, strong of passion, straight to the heart of a new life.” quote by Frank Norris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/daf/frank-norris-28716_action_the-muse-of-our-fiction-of-the-future-wi_852780.jpg)
