Quotes About Speech Class

#1. We had an exercise in speech class in school, impromptu speaking, that I was always real good at.

John Mellencamp

#2. You follow words of the toga (language of the cultivated class).
[Lat., Verba togae sequeris.]

Aulus Persius Flaccus

#3. All the words in the English language are divided into nine great classes. These classes are called the Parts of Speech. They are Article, Noun, Adjective, Pronoun, Verb, Adverb, Preposition, Conjunction and Interjection.

Joseph Devlin

#4. Hillary Clinton wrote an Op-Ed for a paper in Iowa about her plans to help the middle class. Middle-class Americans said, 'Why didn't you just say that in a speech?' and she said, 'Because I charge $200,000 for a speech.'

Jimmy Fallon

#5. She much preferred to be safely on the outside of life, watching, than deeply involved.

Katie Fforde

#6. So I've learned in the past, if a company approaches me and they want something like this, or something like that that I've done and I turn them down, they're going to do it anyhow.

Danny Elfman

#7. I could only think one troubling thought: the police, the state, did the bidding of the holders of great wealth. How much freedom of speech and freedom of assembly you had depended on what class you were in.

Howard Zinn

#8. The birthright of man ... is such a degree of liberty, civil and religious, as is compatible with the liberty of every other individual with whom he is united in a social compact.

Mary Wollstonecraft

#9. I left her wallpapering her much-loved, much-tended little corner of hell.

Joanna Russ

#10. I had a great deal of pressure to move to LA after Romancing the Stone came out and I'd become very popular. But people came to me anyway.

Kathleen Turner

#11. I got to work with Gene Hackman for six weeks, side by side, 12 hours a day.

Marguerite Moreau

#12. Religious expression must at least be afforded an equal playing field. Currently, the playing field is not level. Religious expression and practices are treated as second class forms of speech and singled out for discrimination.

Mathew Staver

#13. They who trim themselves to suit others will soon whittle themselves away.

Suzanne Woods Fisher

#14. It's not difficult to put a girl in bottle; especially when she thinks, she is the boss.

Aman Jassal

#15. I always wanted to be an actor, but with a speech impediment it's kind of tough. I decided to roll the dice and take an acting class, which was very, very nerve-wracking ... my stomach would just be in knots.

Nicholas Brendon

#16. On the forest floor was the LVR's smoldering ceiling panel, just lying there like the lid of a sardine can that had been eagerly and violently thrown away by someone who very much liked sardines.

Cuthbert Soup