Speech Quotes

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The most precious things in speech are pauses. — Ralph Richardson
Speech was given to the ordinary sort or men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it. — Robert South
I would hope to inspire in my listeners a feeling of freedom - of speech, thought and political activity. — John Hall
The First Amendment does not guarantee the press a constitutional right of special access to information not available to the general public, nor does it… — Pete Wilson
I indeed had only one scene, one speech, one little speech, but it was with Robin Williams. — Charles Keating
He knew the lie of silence to be as evil as the lie of speech. — Gilbert Parker
Take it not amiss, O speech, that I borrow weighty words, and later try hard to make them seem light. — Wislawa Szymborska
As a consequence, the Court ruled that the limits on campaign spending violated the First Amendment, but it accepted the $1,000 limit on individual contributions… — James L. Buckley
And, I hope now that everybody understands that the Labour Party - as it always has done - stands for free speech and individual Members… — Ron Davies
The standing orders of the Parliamentary Party, however, apply to me, apply to every other Member of the Parliamentary Labour Party and they put into… — Ron Davies
People often complain that music is too ambiguous, that what they should think when they hear it is so unclear, whereas everyone understands words. With… — Felix Mendelssohn
We meet before the movie and she gives you charts with sounds on them and makes a tape of examples. While they are setting up… — Albert Finney
On the other side, I do believe that the rhetoric we are seeing from the Democrats today is unprecedented, is a new low in presidential… — Ed Gillespie
I talked to women who lived there, to get their speech patterns and outlook on life - and how narrow that is. — Ellen Burstyn
This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over. — Harold Brodkey
Unfortunately, opponents of online speech have decided to punish our changing technological world. — Dennis Hastert
I was on the speech team, we called it forensics. — Thomas Lennon
In days when the public safety is imminently threatened, and the fate of a nation may hang upon a single act, we owe frank speech,… — Robert Dale Owen
Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can… — Joshua Reynolds
The task is to investigate speech sounds in relation to the meanings with which they are invested, i.e., sounds viewed as signifiers, and above all… — Roman Jakobson

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