Speech Quotes

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My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity. — George Bernard Shaw
Learning how to discipline your speech is a way of preventing your energies from spilling out of you through the rupture of your mouth, exhausting… — Elizabeth Gilbert
My belief in free speech is so profound that I am seldom tempted to deny it to the other fellow. Nor do I make any… — H. L. Mencken
Who claims Truth, Truth abandons. History is hir'd, or coerc'd, only in Interests that must ever prove base. She is too innocent, to be left… — Thomas Pynchon
Speech is the voice of the heart. — Anna Quindlen
If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech. — W. Somerset Maugham
His speech failed to rouse an enthusiastic cheer, but no one dared contradict him. — Kenneth Oppel
All language begins with speech, and the speech of common men at that, but when it develops to the point of becoming a literary medium… — Raymond Chandler
Why do you think great leaders and great orations are coincident with wars, revolutions, and the founding or ending of governments and states? Common interests… — Mark Helprin
Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. Never use a long word where a… — George Orwell
Like most novelists, I like to do exactly the opposite of what I'm told. It's in my nature as a novelist. Novelists can't trust anything… — Haruki Murakami
The actual life of a thought lasts only until it reaches the point of speech...As soon as our thinking has found words it ceases to… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Sometimes you meet yourself on the road before you have a chance to learn the appropriate greeting. Faced with your own possibilities, the hard part… — Pearl Cleage
I am determined to practice deep listening. I am determined to practice loving speech. — Nhat Hanh
The only bright spot in the entire evening was the presence of Kevin "Tubby" Matchwell, the eleven-year-old porker who tackled the role of Santa with… — David Sedaris
The animals have no need for speech, why talk when you are a word. — Margaret Atwood
According to most studies, people's number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. Does that sound right? This means… — Jerry Seinfeld
His ear heard more than what was said to him, and his slow speech had overtones not of thought, but of understanding beyond thought. — John Steinbeck
In my godless household, poems were the closest we came to sacred speech -- the only prayers said. — Mary Karr
I believe in humanity - not just you or Mother, but all mankind. Do I sound like a preacher or a cheap politician making a… — F. Sionil JosÃ©

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