Quotes about speech
speech kind absurd
I always feel kind of absurd and presumptuous presenting a speech. Moby
speech sincere great-power
In all sincere speech there is power, not necessarily great power, but as much as the speaker is capable of. George Henry Lewes
speech speak judgment
It is a great misfortune not to possess sufficient wit to speak well, nor sufficient judgment to keep silent. Jean de la Bruyere
speech incorporation
Speech is but the incorporation of thought. Joseph Joubert
speech certain has-beens
I would have been better than Adolf Hitler. I could have delivered his speeches a lot better... that's for certain. Klaus Kinski
speech way austin
There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely. J. L. Austin
speech forests hogwarts
I forgot Dumbledore trashed Hogwarts, refused to resign and ran off to the forest to make speeches to angry trolls. J. K. Rowling
speech reason
Reason and speech we onely bring. George Herbert
speech world said
I will be brief. Not nearly so brief as Salvador Dali, who gave the world's shortest speech. He said I will be so brief I have already finished, and he sat down. Gene Fowler
speech speak silent
It is most difficult to speak when we are ashamed of being silent. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
speech stopping eloquence
Eloquence: saying the proper thing and stopping.
speech honey tongue
From his tongue flowed speech sweeter than honey. Homer
speech rich court
If money is a form of speech, as the Supreme Court has regrettably found, rich donors will always be the loudest speakers. Howard Dean
speech consciousness silent
But can one not conceive of a presence, and of a presence to itself of the subject before speech or signs, a presence to itself of the subject in a silent and intuitive consciousness? Such a question therefore presupposes that, prior to the sign, and outside it, excluding any trace and any différance, something like consciousness is possible. Jacques Derrida
speech jew protected
Politically popular speech has always been protected: even the Jews were free to say ‘Heil Hitler.’ Isaac Asimov
speech facts persons
An orator is the worse person to tell a plain fact. Maria Edgeworth
speech speak silent
He knows not when to be silent who knows not when to speak. Publilius Syrus
speech language faculty
Language, as well as the faculty of speech, was the immediate gift of God. Noah Webster
speech ridiculous accents
I lost my ridiculous accent without acquiring another John Ashbery
speech controversial made
I have never knowingly made a non-controversial speech in my life. Margaret Thatcher
speech information essentials
Eloquence is the essential thing in a speech, not information. Mark Twain
speech golden harvest
Speech is the golden harvest that followeth the flowering of thought. Martin Farquhar Tupper
speech may language
However great one's gift of language may be, there is always something that one cannot tell. Mary MacLane
speech free-speech
None but the dead have free speech.
speech patterns metaphor
Metaphor has traditionally been regarded as the matrix and pattern of the figures of speech. Marshall McLuhan
speech counterfeit
The best and most telling speech is not the actual impromptu one but the counterfeit of it.
speech few-words
The speeches to be wary of are those that begin with I'm just going to say a few words. Frank Muir
speech nine pounds
I have but nine-pence in ready money, but I can draw for a thousand pounds. Joseph Addison
speech monkeys should
Monkeys who very sensibly refrain from speech, lest they should be set to earn their livings. Kenneth Grahame
speech language ritual
When speech is divorced from speaker and word from meaning, what is left is just ritual, language as ritual. Ellen Goodman
speech meat drink
Let thy speech of God be renewed day by day, aye, rather than thy meat and drink. Epictetus
speech
And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?
speech speak one-love
None love to speak so much, when the mood of speaking comes, as they who are naturally taciturn. Henry Ward Beecher