Air Quote by Christopher Hitchens

A speech is like an airplane engine. It may sound like hell but you've got to go on.

— William T. Piper

I've always been able to hear and read what I say before I say it. That's why I'm a good quote. Or a good…

— Reggie Jackson

I think that some restriction on speech is appropriate.

— Dianne Feinstein

That's the last time I work with somebody with a speech impediment!

— Daffy Duck

Speech, after all, is in some measure an expression of character, and flexibility in its use is a good way to tell your friends…

— Jacques Barzun

The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.

— Oliver Goldsmith

“Of course, you cannot just blurt out a quote whenever you feel like it. For a quote to have the desired effect, it must…

— Jakub Marian

“My pet peeve is the misuse of the word, "quote!”

— Dan Hokstad

Speech is not a means in the service of an external end. It contains its own rule of usage, ethics, and view of the…

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

It seems pointless to be quoted if one isn't going to be quotable ... it's better to be quotable than honest.

— Tom Stoppard

I think quotes are very dangerous things.

— Kate Bush

Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.

— Oscar Wilde