Speech Quotes

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Place a padlock on your throat and hide the key. — Unknown Author
Richard doesn't really like me to kill bugs, but sometimes I can't help it. — Cindy Crawford
I want to know what they look like, their height, and colouring, physique and speech pattens. — Colleen McCullough
Hollywood is right. A good and strong movie can have a more powerful social impact than any and all political speeches or newspaper editorials and… — Mike Royko
Just as our bread, mixed and baked, packaged and sold without benefit of accident or human frailty, is uniformly good and uniformly tasteless, so will… — John Steinbeck
The pursuit of Fashion is the attempt of the middle class to co-opt tragedy. In adopting the clothing, speech, and personal habits of those in… — David Mamet
Surrealism will usher you into death, which is a secret society. It will glove your hand, burying therein the profound M with which the word… — Andre Breton
Congress-these, for the most part, illiterate hacks whose fancy vests are spotted with gravy, and whose speeches, hypocritical, unctuous, and slovenly, are spotted also with… — Mary McCarthy
The mark of solitude is silence, as speech is the mark of community. Silence and speech have the same inner correspondence and difference as do… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
What great delight it is to see the ones we love and then to have speech with them. — Vincent McNabb
A political movement must keep in touch with reality and the prevailing conditions. Long speeches, the shaking of fists, the banging of tables, and strongly… — Nelson Mandela
A great speech is literature. — Peggy Noonan
There is an interesting resemblance in the speeches of dictators, no matter what country they may hail from or what language they may speak. — Edna Ferber
No phrase can convey the idea of surprise so vividly as opening the eyes and raising the eyebrows. A shrug of the shoulders would lose… — Herbert Spencer
There is no such thing as a nonpolitical speech by a politician. — Richard M. Nixon
The goal is to give people a free encyclopedia to every person in the world, in their own language. Not just in a 'free beer'… — Jimmy Wales
Speech is our second possession, after the soul-and perhaps we have no other possession in this world. — Gabriela Mistral
How ironical that it is by means of speech that man can degrade himself below the level of dumb creation -- for a chatterbox is… — Soren Kierkegaard
I prefer a little free speech to no free speech at all; but how many have free speech or the chance or the mind for… — James Agee
In Vietnam we have no political prisoners. No one is arrested or jailed for his or her speech or point of view. They are put… — Nong ?uc Manh

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