Quotes about speech
speech young therapy
I suffered from a quite severe speech impediment when I was young, and keeping a journal was part of the therapy. George Fetherling
speech communicate bores
You can't expect to communicate with anyone if you're a bore. John Cheever
speech
You don't keep that speech in your back pocket.
speech noble stains
No speech can stain what is noble by nature. Sophocles
speech wells one-thing
Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.
speech sound ill
To me no profitable speech sounds ill.
speech would-be wonder
I wonder what my speech would be. Stephen Chbosky
speech politician
There is no such thing as a nonpolitical speech by a politician. Richard M. Nixon
speech language forget
Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive. Roland Barthes
speech free-speech
We shouldn't have free speech. Robin Quivers
speech said heard
If Thomas Jefferson had heard us, he probably would have said, 'We shouldn't have free speech.'
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
speech torn casts
Speech is an old torn net, through which the fish escape as one casts it over them. Virginia Woolf
speech twisted figures
A figure of speech is a shifty thing; it can be twisted or it can be straight. Salman Rushdie
speech censorship free-speech
Free speech is life itself.
speech film made
I've never made a film using dialogue or speech. Kenneth Anger
speech excellent indignation
A good indignation makes an excellent speech. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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 next provocative
Among provocative, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching.
speech hearing tongue
The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue.
speech three-things three
There are three things in speech that ought to be considered before some things are spoken--the manner, the place and the time. Robert Southey
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 doe language
Language is neither reactionary nor progressive; it is quite simply fascist; for fascism does not prevent speech, it compels speech.
speech spokes candor
Gracious to all, to none subservient, Without offense he spoke the word he meant Thomas Bailey Aldrich
speech action plans
A plan without action is not a plan. It's a speech. T. Boone Pickens
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