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Speech Quotes by David Abram
- The telling of stories, like singing and praying, would seem to be an almost ceremonial act, an ancient and necessary mode of speech that tends…
- For the Amahuaca, the Koyukon, the Apache, and the diverse Aboriginal peoples of Australia - as for numerous other indigenous peoples - the coherence of…
- In the absence of any written analogue to speech, the sensible, natural environment remains the primary visual counterpart of spoken utterance, the palpable site, or…
- Entranced by the denotative power of words to define, to order, to represent the things around us, weve overlooked the songful dimension of language so…
More Speech Quotes
- That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed… — Timothy Garton Ash
- One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence… — Margaret Atwood
- You can't just give a speech and expect people to fall down and agree with you. — Hillary Clinton
- Wilson was once asked how long it took him to write a speech. He answered, 'That depends. If I am to speak… — Woodrow Wilson
- On the other side, I do believe that the rhetoric we are seeing from the Democrats today is unprecedented, is a new… — Ed Gillespie
- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement… — Aristotle