Speech Quotes

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Illusion - or rather appearance, semblance - is the theme of my life (could be theme of speech welcoming freshmen to the Academy). All that… — Gerhard Richter
Free speech isn't dead in Germany and Italy, merely the speakers... — Bob Hope
Only in America do these peasants, our mothers, get their hair dyed platinum at the age of sixty, and walk up and down Collins Avenue… — Philip Roth
It was a profound saying of Wilhelm Humboldt, that 'Man is man only by means of speech, but in order to invent speech he must… — Charles Lyell
Gramophone and movies were merely the mechanization of speech and gesture. But the radio and TV were not just the electronification of speech and gesture… — Marshall McLuhan
For I must not measure the speech of a statesman to his people by the impression which it leaves in a university professor, but by… — Adolf Hitler
Free markets are a tool, free speech is a goal. — Tim Bray
To turn experience into speech - that is, to classify, to categorize, to conceptualize, to grammarize, to syntactify it - is always a betrayal of… — John Barth
We are resolved to protect individual freedom of belief. This freedom must include the child as well as the parent. The freedom for which we… — Sophia Lyon Fahs
Outside speech, the association that is made in the memory between words having something in common creates different groups, series, families, within which very diverse… — Ferdinand de Saussure
Almost all human affairs are tedious. Everything is too long. Visits, dinners, concerts, plays, speeches, pleadings, essays, sermons, are too long. Pleasure and business labor… — Arthur Helps
Our imagination and reasoning powers facilitate anxiety; the anxious feeling is precipitated not by an absolute impending threat-such as the worry about an examination, a… — Willard Gaylin
John Howard Davies was not a very human person... if you made a mistake of any kind, any sort of pause in speech, he would… — Graham Chapman
I have made speeches urging women to adopt methods of rebellion such as have been adopted by men in every revolution. — Emmeline Pankhurst
Manchester is a city which has witnessed a great many stirring episodes, especially of a political character. Generally speaking, its citizens have been liberal in… — Emmeline Pankhurst
My voice is the only material thing in which I can still reveal myself. Go ahead and cut off the hand or the testicles of… — Abdellatif Laabi
Too many words are lit for a beast of burden. — Yunus Emre
Neil Kinnock's speeches go on for so long because he has nothing to say and so he has no way of knowing when he's finished… — John Major
I've had a lot of fear in my life, from fear of flying to fear of making a speech in front of a lot of… — Chris Evert
I have heard Mr. Romney's speech's many times on television and the radio and I have even read his book No Apology: The Case for… — Angela Lansbury

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