Quotes About Speech

#1. There are three opportunities that you have during a general election campaign where you can substantially move the needle of public opinion. One, is your convention speech; two, are the base; three, is the selection of your vice president.

Mark McKinnon

#2. Do not be satisfied with the speech of your lips and the thought in your heart, all the promises and good sayings in your mouth, and all the good thoughts in your heart; rather you must arise and do!

Menachem Mendel Of Kotzk

#3. Vowels are the most illuminated letters in the alphabet. Vowels are the colors and souls of poetry and speech. (1976 Penthouse interview)

Patti Smith

#4. A period may be defined as a portion of speech that has in itself a beginning and an end, being at the same time not too big to be taken in at a glance

Aristotle.

#5. Churchill wrote his own speeches. When a leader does that, he becomes emotionally invested with his utterances ... If Churchill had had a speech write in 1940, Britain would be speaking German today.

James C. Humes

#6. He stopped, feeling lonely in his long speech.

John Steinbeck

#7. Even a liar's speech expresses something true; it may not tell us the state of the world, but it tells us the state of his heart.

J. Budziszewski

#8. As we saw in the Queen's Speech, anti-social behaviour - a phenomenon that I believe to be a genuine worry that is also being fed by a lot of scare stories - is the political theme of the moment.

Kamal Ahmed

#9. Any man who makes a speech more than six times a year is bound to repeat himself, not because he has little to say, but because he wants applause and the old stuff gets it.

William Feather

#10. That which proceeds from a man's soul shall shape his soul; that which proceeds from his speech shall shape his speech, and deeds that proceed from his body shall shape his body.

Yukio Mishima

#11. Yes," Lisa said with the usual blank honestly. She frowned. "Was that a sincere question? Or a scolding rhetorical question akin to Harilotecca's speech patterns?

Ash Gray

#12. Avoid people who are always having a bad day. In their minds, nothing ever works in their favor. They have a chronic "Woe Is Me" campaign that they continue to launch full blast. This kind of negativity depletes enthusiasm. You don't need the woe-is-me speech every day.

Steve Harvey

#13. When the vain speaker has sat down, and the people say 'what a good speech,' it still takes an ounce to balance an ounce.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#14. Lyrical lecture, word architecture,
Rap director, the best in my sector.
Microphone cool chief, releasin the smooth speech ...
I get nasty with a pen and some loose leaf.

Lord Finesse

#15. Fire is His head, the sun and moon His eyes, space His ears, the Vedas His speech, the wind His breath, the universe His heart. From His feet the Earth has originated. Verily, He is the inner self of all beings.

Anonymous

#16. Thought is the fountain of speech.

Chrysippus

#17. If you're dealing with a musical in which you're trying to tell a story, it's got to sound like speech. At the same time it's got to be a song.

Stephen Sondheim

#18. For if men needed speech in order to learn to think, they had a still greater need for knowing how to think in order to discover the art of speaking - Rousseau

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#19. The Buddha's criteria for Wise Speech include - in addition to the obvious expectation that speech be truthful - that it be timely, gentle, motivated by kindness, and helpful.

Sylvia Boorstein

#20. I used to have this slight speech implement and couldn't remember things before I took the Sam Carnegie course.

Bill Peterson

#21. The artist does not exist except as a personification, a figure of speech that represents the sum total of art itself. It is painting that is the genius of the painter, poetry of the poet, and a person is a creative artist to the extent that he participates in that genius.

Harold Rosenberg

#22. My father always said that too many words cheapened the value of a man's speech.

Patricia Briggs

#23. The music that of common speech but slanted so that each detail sounds unexpected as a sharp inserted in a simple scale.

Dana Gioia

#24. The roots of a lasting relationship are mindfulness, deep listening and loving speech, and a strong community to support you.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#25. Freedom of speech is of no use to a man who has nothing to say and freedom of worship is of no use to a man who has lost his God.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#26. Where there is no freedom of speech, there is no conscience.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#27. I write in a slangy colloquial speech that has not been common in the Israeli tradition of writing, and that is one of the things that gets lost a little in translation.

Etgar Keret

#28. I also had a stuttering problem. In a Mexican home they don't give you speech therapy; they don't even know what speech therapy is. They just get the belt. If there's a parrot in the house, you better talk better than the parrot.

Felipe Esparza

#29. The Internet is a powerful example of free speech and the free market in action; it is curious that the Net has alarmed the lawmakers of a nation founded on those principles.

Denise Caruso

#30. My speech is too fast; my oration confused; love knows no order.

St. Jerome

#31. Poetry finds its perilous equilibrium somewhere between music and speech ...

May Sarton

#32. When given freedom of speech, most men merely quote other men.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#33. When I was writing the speech, still a little concussed, I reached for the phone to call my father and ask what type of plane it was, and for a moment the world went very black.

Helen Macdonald

#34. It's easier to find a new audience than to write a new speech.

Dan S. Kennedy

#35. In our generation, the role models were Gandhi and Nehru. We revered them. They were venerated personalities. I read almost every speech of Nehru.

Pranab Mukherjee

#36. What view is one likely to take of the state of a person's mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?

Seneca The Younger

#37. Lying is a false significance of speech, with a will to deceive, which cannot be cured but by shame and reason; it is a monstrous and wicked evil, that filthily depraved and defileth the tongue of man.

Jon Jones

#38. What is the matter?" asked the passenger, then, with mildly quavering speech. "Who wants me? Is it Jerry?

Charles Dickens

#39. They tell me, Lord, that when I seem
To be in speech with you.
Since but one voice is heard, it

C.S. Lewis

#40. When kids are really little, they all look the same. No speech, no social relatedness, cannot emphasize enough the importance of early educational intervention.

Temple Grandin

#41. The other night, the president gave a speech. He said, "children are our most prescious natural resource". I thought, "let's hope it never comes to that".

Emo Philips

#42. Politically correct speech will not defeat the enemy.

Kevin McCarthy

#43. When controversial speech can be taken offline through pressures on private intermediaries without any kind of due process, that is something we need to be concerned about.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#44. Gather a shell from the strewn beach And listen at its lips: they sigh The same desire and mystery, The echo of the whole sea's speech.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

#45. A kiss is a course of procedure cunningly devised, for the mutual stopage of speech at a moment when words are superfluous.

Oliver Herford

#46. Such boycotts threaten academic speech and exchange, which is our solemn duty as academic institutions to protect.

Molly Corbett Broad

#47. I didn't talk to anybody and say, "I'm going to do a speech, do you go some ideas?" This is something I did on my own because I care very deeply about the country.

Mitt Romney

#48. Dialogue, contrary to popular view, is not a recording of actual speech; it is a semblance of speech, an invented language of exchanges that build in tempo or content toward climaxes.

Sol Stein

#49. We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.

Fulton J. Sheen

#50. Speech should be fruitful as well as free.

Zechariah Chafee

#51. To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.

Frederick Douglass

#52. Here Mrs. Wiggins, who had been slowing down gradually, came to a full stop. "Good land, Charles," she said, looking down at the rooster, "I can't remember all those big words. That was a real nice speech you wrote out for me, but I guess you'll just have to let me tell it in my own way." Charles

Walter R. Brooks

#53. But please know, whether you believe campaign contributions are speech or property, that I learned to love very dearly the right of free expression when I lived without that freedom for a while a long time ago.

John McCain

#54. But I had also learned that freedom of speech means freedom from rhetoric.

Umberto Eco

#55. A false argument should be refuted, not named. That's the basic idea behind freedom of speech. Arguments by name-calling, rather than truth and light, can generally be presumed fraudulent.

Ann Coulter

#56. I'm used to being in front of camera and knowing what to think. But if you're asking me to be me, I get very self-conscious. My job isn't to be me. Being an actor, people think you can do a eulogy at a funeral, a speech at a wedding. I find all that very nerve-racking.

Eddie Marsan

#57. All your future needs are ready for you, because within [us] resides the Supreme Lord. Provided there is no interference from [our] mind-speech-body!

Dada Bhagwan

#58. The Bill of Rights was intended to secure freedom of speech - the freedom of speech of members of parliament to speak freely rather than be at threat of ... the threat of an over powerful monarch at the time.

William Hague

#59. If anything is scary about my writing, it's that it's the product of a very particular vision and doesn't reference common speech that heavily. By 'common speech,' I don't mean language as much as an agreed-on way of seeing, or a shorthand.

Mary Gaitskill

#60. All speech, action and behavior are fluctuations of consciousness. All life emerges from, and is sustained in, consciousness. The whole universe is the expression of consciousness. The reality of the universe is one unbounded ocean of consciousness in motion.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

#61. You're an old-timer if you can remember when setting the world on fire was a figure of speech.

Franklin P. Jones

#62. Silence is deep as Eternity, speech is shallow as Time.

Thomas Carlyle

#63. Passions are the speech of our bodies, they are our vitality speaking.

Martha Roth

#64. Each decision - to kill, to sign a petition, to write a letter, to make a speech, to attack, to lie, to surrender - was made at some point in somebody's day.

Nicholson Baker

#65. Private religious speech can't be discriminated against. It has to be treated equally with secular speech.

Samuel Alito

#66. Advertising is speech. It's regulated because it's often effective speech.

Jef I. Richards

#67. In a good play every speech should be as fully flavored as a nut or apple.

John Millington Synge

#68. For if any man thinks that he is alone is wise--that in speech, or in mind, he hath no peer--such a soul, when laid open, is ever found empty.

Sophocles

#69. I actually think it is people like myself who have been fighting for our rights to free speech and I would like the right to defend my own right to free speech, not have soldiers doing it for me. I don't think I need soldiers.

Medea Benjamin

#70. Barbara Jordan is one [of the political heroes]. Her 1976 speech in New York inspired me to get into politics.

Donna Brazile

#71. the subversion of free speech and free thought are the worst forms of subversion.

William Douglas

#72. President Obama said that we rely too much on gadgets. He gave a passionate speech about technology, but he had to stop when the teleprompter broke.

Craig Ferguson

#73. Of the modes of persuasion furnished by the spoken word there are three kinds. The first kind depends on the personal character ofthe speaker; the second on putting the audience into a certain frame of mind; the third on the proof, provided by the words of the speech itself.

Aristotle.

#74. Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth. To kill free speech is to insult human rights, to stifle human nature and to suppress truth.

Liu Xiaobo

#75. Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#76. This speech wasn't forever. Being embarrassed as not forever. None of this was forever. But trying was. Living was.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#77. The speech of the stupid one leads to quarrels, And his mouth invites a beating.

Anonymous

#78. Writing for me is a dragnet that carries everything away with it: expressions and figures of speech, postures, feelings, thoughts, troubles. In short, the lives of others.

Elena Ferrante

#79. The best answer to bad speech is good speech

Alan Dershowitz

#80. Plainly, she is quite besotted by him, ... a girl, a young girl, and she is falling in love for the first time in her life ... little Kitty Howard at a loss, stumbling in her speech, blushing like a rose, thinking of someone else and not herself is to see a girl become a woman.

Philippa Gregory

#81. Ragamuffins are simple, direct and honest. Their speech is unaffected. They are slow to claim, "God told me ... " As they make their way through the world, they bear wordless, prophetic witness.

Brennan Manning

#82. William Ransome and Cora Seaborne, stripped of code and convention, even of speech, stood with her strong hand in his: children of the earth lost in wonder.

Sarah Perry

#83. I am not content to entrust our free-speech rights to the good graces and whims of Congress and hope that politicians don't abuse their power.

Ted Cruz

#84. One could construe the life of man as a great discourse in which the various people represent different parts of speech (the same might apply to states).

Soren Kierkegaard

#85. The story of Daniel Lord and the Legion of Decency goes to a central contention of this book: in the United States, it is industrial structure that determines the limits of free speech.

Tim Wu

#86. I had a scholarship to Stanford because I won three California Speech tournaments. Before I started Stanford, I told my mother I wanted to take a bus into Hollywood and see if I could get an agent.

Stan Freberg

#87. That's another way of writing a song, of course. Just talking to somebody that ain't there. That's the best way. That's the truest way. Then it just becomes a question of how heroic your speech is. To me, it's something to strive after.

Bob Dylan

#88. For [D.H.] Lawrence, existence was one continuous convalescence; it was as though he were newly reborn from a mortal illness every day of his life. What these convalescent eyes saw, his most casual speech would reveal.

Aldous Huxley

#89. A figure of speech can often get into a crack too small for a definition.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#90. Self restraint in speech, food, entertainment and vanity are the most essential fundamental of spiritual growth.

Nouman Ali Khan

#91. Clarity of thought is a must for brevity in speech.

Somali K Chakrabarti

#92. In the world of commercial speech, tobacco advertising bears the earmarks of an endangered species.

Jef I. Richards

#93. You were always cheerful - tho' often left to your own devices. You were hardly ever out of temper - tho' often severely provoked. Your every speech was remarkable for its wit and genius - tho' you got no credit for it and almost always received a flat contradiction.

Susanna Clarke

#94. YOUR speech is simple, my Master, but not theirs who talk of you.

Rabindranath Tagore

#95. More and more Chinese intend to embrace freedom of speech and human rights as their birthright, not some imported American privilege.

Michael Anti

#96. Good speakers usually find when they finish that there have been four versions of the speech: the one they delivered, the one they prepared, the one the newspapers say was delivered, and the one on the way home they wish they had delivered.

Dale Carnegie

#97. Freedom of speech and thought matters, especially when it is speech and thought with which we disagree. The moment the majority decides to destroy people for engaging in thought it dislikes, thought crime becomes a reality.

Ben Shapiro

#98. Yet these roaring waters," said Neville, "upon which we build our crazy platforms are more stable than the wild, the weak and inconsequent cries that we utter when, trying to speak, we rise; when we reason and jerk out these false sayings, 'I am this; I am that!' Speech is false.

Virginia Woolf

#99. Verse is the natural speech of men, as singing is of birds'
The Week's Survey, 18 June 1904

Edward Thomas

#100. Alike and ever alike, we are on all continents in the need of love, food, clothing, work, speech, worship, sleep, games, dancing, fun. From tropics to arctics humanity live with these needs so alike, so inexorably alike.

Carl Sandburg