It was one of those dangerous moments when speech is at once sincere and deceptive - when feeling, rising high above its… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I try to make the voice in my head come out onto the page. I try to make it much more conversational… — James Frey Copy Share Image
Style as a concept has been hijacked to mean elite, refined and expensive when it should be thought of as a basic… — Scott Schuman Copy Share Image
It's always easy to get people to condemn threats to free speech when the speech being threatened is speech that they like.… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
“I listen to Alicia practice a speech for class, and I don’t look at the clock even once. In fact, for the… — Nate LeBoutillier Copy Share Image
Everything in journalism is about the detail that makes the whole, the attempts to reproduce speech patterns while not actually quoting the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I didn't make a political speech outside of my state for 20 years. And I just focused almost exclusively on my initiatives… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
You should protest about the views of people you disagree with over major moral issues, and argue them down, but you should… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
Two Soviets . . . were talking to each other. And one of them asked, "What's the difference between the Soviet Constitution… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Freedom of thought, freedom of speech, freedom of identity. This is my Holy Trinity, each one an intrinsic aspect of my god:… — Pat Condell Copy Share Image
“Our freedom of speech is not some cute, optional, anachronistic thing that you write about on a short answer quiz about school… — Brian Huskie Copy Share Image
Active liberty is particularly at risk when law restricts speech directly related to the shaping of public opinion, for example, speech that… — Stephen Breyer Copy Share Image
There is hardly a congressman prepared to go home until he has at least one speech printed and sent to his constituents,… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I do think if we take the power out of Washington and bring it back to the people, if we defend the… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
Man's first expression, like his first dream, was an aesthetic one. Speech was a poetic outcry rather than a demand for communication.… — Barnett Newman Copy Share Image
They are all beasts of burden in a sense, ' Thoreau once remarked of animals, 'made to carry some portion of our… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Strictures, reproaches, and intemperate speeches from the Senator of Louisiana are really the wailings of an apostle of despair; he has lost… — Huey Long Copy Share Image
“As was the case for Nobel's own invention of dynamite, the uses that are made of increased knowledge can serve both beneficial… — Nicolaas Bloembergen Copy Share Image
Being Kind Not in some great deed of heroism; not in some great speech or act that may be pointed to with… — Edgar Cayce Copy Share Image
“To speak in a way that causes the other person to get disturbed is the greatest crime. On the contrary, if someone… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Seeking approval and people pleasing forces you to alter your actions and speech to no longer reflect what you actually think or… — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
I believe in the complete freedom of thought and speech - alike for the humblest man and the mightiest, and in the… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“Where there is partiality (pakshapaat), there is violence (himsa); it is speech that hurts (himsak vani). Where there is impartial speech (nishpakshapati… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Language becomes a prison house only poets can escape...if we do not reject any strict distinctions between ordinary usage and figures of… — Arthur Quinn Copy Share Image
I didn't realise I had a speech impediment until I came back to England. I spent the whole of my life working… — Roy Hodgson Copy Share Image
Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; And thus the native hue of resolution Is slicked o'er with the pale cast… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I'm just wondering, folks, if I gave a speech on anti-capitalism, do you think I could be named Person of the Year… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Obviously, whenever the government is getting involved with speech, it gives me a lot of pause. I have a background as a… — Brianna Wu Copy Share Image
It is poverty's speech that seeks us out the most. It is older than the oldest speech of Rome. This is the… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
Generally speaking, men are influenced by books which clarify their own thought, which express their own notions well, or which suggest to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The basis of the First Amendment is the hypothesis that speech can rebut speech, propaganda will answer propaganda, free debate of ideas… — Fred M. Vinson Copy Share Image
A lot of people think that public speaking means that you are standing at a podium giving a speech, but public speaking… — Dana Perino Copy Share Image
Around Mik, my powers desert me. I lose basic motor function, like my brain focuses all neural activity on my lips and… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
Campuses that were once havens of free speech are now patrolled and regulated by thought police. Intellectual dishonesty has become a job… — Michael Barone Copy Share Image
“People say: 'Let the facts speak for themselves'; they forget that the speech of facts is real only if it is heard… — E.F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
“...and since, human speech is like a cracked tin kettle, on which we hammer out tunes to make bears dance when we… — Flaubert Gustave Copy Share Image
If you want me to give you a two-hour presentation, I am ready today. If you want only a five-minute speech, it… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In short, individual freedom of speech leads to a stronger society. But knowing that principle is not enough. You have to know… — Mike Godwin Copy Share Image
While even pornography is protected as free speech, the courts have consciously undermined religious speech and freedom of religion for years. — Ernest Istook Copy Share Image
