Perfection, in the form of a flawless stream of words delivered with cool composure, is never as persuasive as realness. An impassioned… — Charlotte Beers Copy Share Image
More and more Chinese intend to embrace freedom of speech and human rights as their birthright, not some imported American privilege. — Michael Anti Copy Share Image
I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech. [Optimism through positive expectations can help… — H. Jackson Brown, Jr Copy Share Image
“Think about the impromptu speech as a game. Your attitude will change your frame of mind and instead of concentrating on the… — Andrii Sedniev Copy Share Image
Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Take the word Liberty from human speech and all the other words become poor, withered, meaningless sounds - but with that word… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
My music must be an artistic reproduction of human speech in all its finest shades. That is, the sounds of human speech,… — Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky Copy Share Image
Explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his campaign pledge that there would be no loss of wetlands: He didn't say… — Richard Darman Copy Share Image
When I enter a library, when I enter the world of books, I feel the ghosts of the past on my shoulders… — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
The speech we hear is an indication of that which we don't hear. It is a necessary avoidance, a violent, sly, and… — Harold Pinter Copy Share Image
Like the sorcerer of old, the television set casts its magic spell, freezing speech and action, turning the living into silent statues… — Urie Bronfenbrenner Copy Share Image
Stammering is different than stuttering. Stutterers have trouble with the letters, while stammerers trip over entire parts of a sentence. We stammerers… — Bob Newhart Copy Share Image
People depend on the Open Internet to connect and communicate with each other freely. Voters need it to inform themselves before casting… — Michael Copps Copy Share Image
When I give a speech at a corporate event, I often ask those in attendance, 'Do you know how to tell if… — Bill Walsh Copy Share Image
The civil liberties types who are fighting this issue have to fight it, owing to the nature of the laws, as a… — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
We have as many planes of speech as does a painting planes of perspective which create perspective in a phrase. The most… — Constantin Stanislavski Copy Share Image
I write in a slangy colloquial speech that has not been common in the Israeli tradition of writing, and that is one… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
Break the ice, or draw that which lives in the dimness out into the full light of speech - what happens is… — Jens Peter Jacobsen Copy Share Image
Barack Obama's convention speech in 2004 had made him a political star, and he arrived in Iowa to crowds unseen in caucus history. — John Dickerson Copy Share Image
We do have freedom of speech, but if you say the wrong word, it looks like it makes headlines. So everybody has… — Joe Arpaio Copy Share Image
What we call the freedom of the individual is not just the luxury of one intellectual to write what he likes to… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
One unexpectedly striking moment, when Tom Amandes as Lincoln, recites the Gettysburg Address, not in booming, this-is-a-great-speech style, but casually, as if… — Neil Genzlinger Copy Share Image
Human language can but imperfectly describe God's ways. I am sensible of the fact that they are indescribable and inscrutable. But if… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
For many Americans the term 'speech code' sends shivers up the spine. Yet these noxious and un-American codes have become commonplace on… — Kirsten Powers Copy Share Image
It's hard to believe President George Bush gave a speech in New Orleans about disaster recovery and failed to mention the word… — Jim Hightower Copy Share Image
Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions; . . . that laws were like cobwebs, - for that… — Diogenes Copy Share Image
My mother sent me to speech classes, but the other kids still teased me. I was shy. I stooped. Instead of talking,… — Colman Domingo Copy Share Image
EVERY intention which does not assert itself by deeds is a vain intention, and the speech which expresses it is idle speech.… — Eliphas Levi Copy Share Image
I will try and remember always to approach God in secret with as much reverence in speech, posture, and behavior as in… — David Livingstone Copy Share Image
Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people's idea of it is… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Since Humanism as a functioning credo is so closely bound up with the methods of reason and science, plainly free speech and… — Corliss Lamont Copy Share Image
John Kerry now getting slammed by the Republicans because of a botched joke he did about President Bush and Iraq in a… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
Do not save your loving speeches For your friends till they are dead; Do not write them on their tombstones, Speak them… — Anna Cummins Copy Share Image
My connection to music is so strong. I cling to it. I vibe out to it. I release stress to it. Music… — Mahershala Ali Copy Share Image
I've appeared on InfoWars many times, and I've never heard 'hate speech.' InfoWars has libertarian and conservative-leaning views. — Jesse Lee Peterson Copy Share Image
When I give a lot of speeches, they're always on the fly. I mean, I know what I'm going to say roughly,… — Vince Flynn Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton made $21.6 million giving speeches to Wall Street banks and other special interests and, in less than two years, secret… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
"I don't want to lose you, I love you, and...and that's all I've got." As speeches went, it wasn't great. As feelings… — Kristan Higgins Copy Share Image
The most moving speech I have ever heard was Hugh Gaitskell saying he would 'fight, fight and fight again to save the… — Roy Jenkins Copy Share Image
In our period, they say there is free speech. They say there is no penalty for poets, There is no penalty for… — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image