I don't see how the study of language and literature can be separated from the question of free speech, which we all… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
OPERA, n. A play representing life in another world, whose inhabitants have no speech but song, no motions but gestures and no… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“Does any one suppose that private prayer is necessarily candid—necessarily goes to the roots of action? Private prayer is inaudible speech, and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
[T]he categories of intentionality are nothing more nor less than the metalinguistic categories in terms of which we talk epistemically about overt… — Wilfrid Sellars Copy Share Image
Keep your mouth shut, and close up the doors of sight and sound, and as long as you live you will have… — Laozi Copy Share Image
In his big victory speech last night, Senator Kerry said that he wanted to defeat George Bush and the 'economy of privilege.'… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
It's unequivocal: everyplace I go, the one line I can use in a speech that I know will get applause is when… — Seth Moulton Copy Share Image
If there is such a thing as being conditioned by climate and geography, and I think there is, it is the West… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
In the learned journal, in the influential newspaper, I discern no form; only some irresponsible shadow; oftener some monied corporation, or some… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
This is, in theory, still a free country, but our politically correct, censorious times are such that many of us tremble to… — Simon Heffer Copy Share Image
I hate it when people say somebody has a "speech impediment", even if he does, because it could hurt his feelings. So… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
“A woman who utters such depressing and disgusting sounds has no right to be anywhere - no right to live. Remember that… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I try to teach my students style, but always as a part of life, not as ornament. Style has to come out… — Marguerite Young Copy Share Image
“Calling sex by its name thereafter [the 17th c.] became more difficult and more costly. As if in order to gain mastery… — Foucault Michel Copy Share Image
The endless cycle of idea and action, Endless invention, endless experiment, Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness; Knowledge of speech,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Do not desire to hear about the misfortunes of those who oppose you. For those who listen to such speech later reap… — Marcus Eremita Copy Share Image
There are three opportunities that you have during a general election campaign where you can substantially move the needle of public opinion.… — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
It was a high speech of Seneca that "The good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The principle of academic freedom is designed to make sure that powers outside the university, including government and corporations, are not able… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Learning how to discipline your speech is a way of preventing your energies from spilling out of you through the rupture of… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The more a government strives to curtail freedom of speech, the more obstinately is it resisted; not indeed by the avaricious, ...… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
And so Adam, in that his speech to Eve, uttered his faith in the promise made to her of her seed, and… — Thomas Goodwin Copy Share Image
Speech as known to us was unnecessary. A fragment of a sentence amounted almost to a long-winded redundancy. A gesture, a grunt,… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“Motörhead is nothing if not democratic, but I don't think it's fair to be waving your dick around when people are minding… — Lemmy Kilmister Copy Share Image
For mankind, speech with a capital S is especially meaningful and committing, more than the content communicated. The outcry of the newborn… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
The Class Clown album was done totally sober. I'd realized what a hell I'd made for myself and I cleaned up completely… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“For if men needed speech in order to learn to think, they had a still greater need for knowing how to think… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are marking the anniversary of the Arctic convoys.We really do consider members of the Arctic convoy to be heroes. This is… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
A city built upon mud; A culture built upon profit; Free speech nipped in the bud, The minority always guilty. Why should… — Louis MacNeice Copy Share Image
People can do bad things with free speech as well as good. You have to defend the Ku Klux Klan as well… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Alex Haley once said that the best way to begin a speech is “Let me tell you a story.” Nobody is eager… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Syadvaad (accepted by all, and accepting of all) is referred to that speech through which nothing within the body opposes. The mind… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are… — Mary Catherwood Copy Share Image
The MAN above me has been LOYAL to me all my LIFE:!) Give him my SPEECHES, the answer RETURNED at any given… — Tee Shepard Copy Share Image
We have to look at the figures of speech a writer uses, his images and symbols, to realize that underneath all the… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
When the Lord is your confidence you will never find yourself at all deceived by the ways and speech of men and… — Emma Curtis Hopkins Copy Share Image
Precisely because our political speeches are meant to be reported, they are not worth reporting. Precisely because they are carefully designed to… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
For just as some women are said to be handsome though without adornment, so this subtle manner of speech, though lacking in… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
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