Speech Quotes

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Of what use is freedom of speech to those who fear to offend? — Roger Ebert
She wished she could talk as he did. His speech was so quick and easy. It sounded as if he liked her and was not… — Frances Hodgson Burnett
I often think that at the center of me is a voice that at last did split, a house in my heart so invaded with… — Lorrie Moore
Human language can but imperfectly describe God's ways. I am sensible of the fact that they are indescribable and inscrutable. But if mortal man will… — Mahatma Gandhi
â€¦always felt the pain of her friends so keenly that she could not speak easy, fluent words of comforting. Besides, she remembered how well-meant speeches… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
IN ANSWER TO THE QUESTION: WHAT SCENES ONE WOULD LIKE TO HAVE FILMED Shakespeare in the part of the King's Ghost. The beheading of Louis… — Vladimir Nabokov
Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we have… — Henry David Thoreau
Anderson sent me to give you this he said. I believe the subtext was kiss and makeup. This time I was sure I made a… — Jenna Black
To those who know the speech of hills and rivers straightening a stream is like shipping vagrantsâ€”a very successful method of passing trouble from one… — Aldo Leopold
Every mother can easily imagine losing a child. Motherhood is always half loss anyway. The three-year-old is lost at five, the five-year-old at nine. We… — Karen Joy Fowler
I wonder what my speech would be. — Stephen Chbosky
We walked always in beauty, it seemed to me. We walked and looked about, or stood and looked. Sometimes, less often, we would sit down.… — Wendell Berry
We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation. — Fulton J. Sheen
So you say, with your shiny hair and pouty lips - and those breasts - just wait till you start dropping whelps, they'll be at… — Steven Erikson
It was a good speech, but the reaction was due to the fact that politics are madness, and even if one does not know it,… — Mark Helprin
A good speech should be like a woman's skirt: long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest — Winston Churchill
Tess had said that the river was liable to wash the palace and the city and the whole kingdom off the rocks, and then there… — Kristin Cashore
Southern women can say more with a cut of their eyes than a whole debate clubâ€™s worth of speeches. — Allison Glock
Whence did the wond'rous mystic art arise, / Of painting SPEECH, and speaking to the eyes? / That we by tracing magic lines are taught,… — Marshall McLuhan
I can almost picture the disciples faces. "No, not the drink-my-blood speech! We'll never get on the list of fastest-growing movements if you keep asking… — David Platt

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