Speech Quotes

2141 quotes by 1492 authors

A woman who utters such disgusting and depressing noise has no right to be anywhere, no right to live. Remember that you are a human… — Rex Harrison
The growing drama has outgrown such toys Of simulated stature, face, and speech: It also peradventure may outgrow The simulation of the painted scene, Boards,… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The telling of stories, like singing and praying, would seem to be an almost ceremonial act, an ancient and necessary mode of speech that tends… — David Abram
For the Amahuaca, the Koyukon, the Apache, and the diverse Aboriginal peoples of Australia - as for numerous other indigenous peoples - the coherence of… — David Abram
In the absence of any written analogue to speech, the sensible, natural environment remains the primary visual counterpart of spoken utterance, the palpable site, or… — David Abram
If we are not most careful with our thoughts and speech, the words we use will use us. Language has its own ethics, and one… — Ted E. Brewerton
If the Government is going to intrude upon the sacred ground of the First Amendment and tell its citizens that their exercise of protected speech… — Ronald L. Buckwalter
To make love is to become like this infant again. We grope with our mouths toward the body of another being, whom we trust, who… — Susan Griffin
Babylon, Learned and wise, hath perished utterly, Nor leaves her speech one word to aid the sigh That would lament her. — William Wordsworth
In a good play every speech should be as fully flavored as a nut or apple. — John Millington Synge
I do find my speech difficult at times, but it's getting so much better as my confidence grows and that's thanks to the position I'm… — Gareth Gates
And so Adam, in that his speech to Eve, uttered his faith in the promise made to her of her seed, and so in that… — Thomas Goodwin
Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language. — Roman Jakobson
Speech happens to not be his language. — Madame de Stael
Hubert, a speech doesn't have to be eternal to be immortal. — Muriel Humphrey Brown
No speech can stain what is noble by nature. — Sophocles
Literature is the immortality of speech. — August Wilhelm von Schlegel
I grew up to have my father's looks, my father's speech patterns, my father's posture, my father's opinions, and my mother's contempt for my father. — Jules Feiffer
The court has said you are entitled to robust speech on public sidewalks, even insulting speech. — Jay Sekulow
Anyone wishing to communicate with Americans should do so by e-mail, which has been specially invented for the purpose, involving neither physical proximity nor speech. — Auberon Waugh

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