Speech Quotes

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A recent survey stated that the average person's greatest fear is having to give a speech in public. Somehow this ranked even higher than death… — Jerry Seinfeld
Words move, music moves Only in time; but that which is only living Can only die. Words, after speech, reach Into the silence. Only by… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Irony is Fate's most common figure of speech. — Trevanian
There will be no more protest. No more dissension. No more violence. There will be only one voice. The voice of Ravinia. The voice of… — D. J. MacHale
The regime had understood that one person leaving her house while asking herself: Are my trousers long enough?' Is my veil in place?' Can my… — Marjane Satrapi
I wept bitterly, surrendering momentarily to my fear and heartbroken confusion, but slowly I began to quiet a bit, as Jamie stroked my neck and… — Diana Gabaldon
When you are inquisitive, Jane, you always make me smile. You open your eyes like an eager bird, and make every now and then a… — Charlotte Bronte
His own opinion, which he does not air, is that the origin of speech lie in song, and the origins of song in the need… — J M Coetzee
A knavish speech sleeps in a fool's ear. — William Shakespeare
Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words. — Robert Green Ingersoll
To sew is to pray. Men don't understand this. They see the whole but they don't see the stitches. They don't see the speech of… — Louise Erdrich
It's certainly not too late to change to the winning side. But you know, you also have the freedom to stay just where you are.… — Neil Gaiman
They ended every speech with the word hiro, which means: like I said. Thus each man took responsibility for intruding into the inarticulate murmur of… — Leonard Cohen
You cannot take away freedom to protect it, you cannot destroy the free market to save it, and you cannot uphold freedom of speech by… — Glenn Beck
Mr. Greer timed all our speeches with an oven timer. Things were nothing at Tribeca Alternative, considered one of Manhattan's finest prep schools, if not… — Meg Cabot
No wonder he was so good with horses, I thought blearily, feeling his fingers rubbing gently behind my ears, listening to the soothing, incomprehensible speech.… — Diana Gabaldon
If there is such a thing as being conditioned by climate and geography, and I think there is, it is the West that has conditioned… — Wallace Stegner
But what is memory if not the language of feeling, a dictionary of faces and days and smells which repeat themselves like the verbs and… — Julio Cortazar
Of lovers whose bodies smell of each other Who think the same thoughts without need of speech — Thomas Stearns Eliot
I therefore invite you all," Mr Fox went on, 'to stay here with me for ever.' For ever!' they cried. 'My goodness! How marvellous!' And… — Roald Dahl

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