Quotes about speech
speech action environment
Every thought, speech, and action of a person influences everything in the environment. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
speech rant motivational-speech
They classify my motivational speeches as rants! Kanye West
speech language happens
Speech happens to not be his language. Madame de Stael
speech feels detest
I detest my fellow-beings and do not feel that I am their fellow at all Gustave Flaubert
speech amplify rolling
Speech is a rolling press that always amplifies one's emotions.
speech communicate bores
You can't expect to communicate with anyone if you're a bore. John Cheever
speech cold speed
The cold, increased by the tremendous speed, deprived them of the power of speech. Jules Verne
speech climate debate
I am broadly concerned about the slow death of free speech, but particularly in universities and also with regards to the climate change debate. Judith Curry
speech definitions cracks
...a figure of speech can often get into a crack too small for a definition. Gilbert K. Chesterton
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 speak remarkable
If nobody speaks of remarkable things, how can they be called remarkable? Jon McGregor
speech said should
The meaning of what is said is according to the motive for saying it: because things are not subject to speech, but speech to things. Therefore we should take account of the motive of the lawgiver, rather than of his very words. Thomas Aquinas
speech fields culture
Basically, morphic fields are fields of habit, and they've been set up through habits of thought, through habits of activity, and through habits of speech. Most of our culture is habitual... Rupert Sheldrake
speech free-speech
Speech doesn't corrupt. Money corrupts, and money isn't speech. Russ Feingold
speech honest emotion
Humor is the most honest of emotions. Applause for a speech can be insincere, but with humor, if the audience doesn't like it there's no faking it.
speech language willing
All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer. Robert Louis Stevenson
speech whisky havens
Haven't you learned yet that I put something more than whisky into my speeches. Winston Churchill
speech firsts wells
They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one's behind me, anyway. Wislawa Szymborska
speech beast burden
Too many words are lit for a beast of burden. Yunus Emre
speech great-wisdom contentious
Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous. Zhuangzi
speech saws kind
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. We did not often speak. The place spoke for us and was a kind of speech. We spoke to each other in the things we saw. Wendell Berry
speech common remember
It is well to remember that grammar is common speech formulated. W. Somerset Maugham