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A poet who knew that a war leader in his speech on the eve of battle will be both a man of civilization and its raging opposite.
— Adam Nicolson
As long as you have a Cell Phone you're never alone
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.
— Bela Lugosi
Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood and then mount the stump to make a speech for conservation.
— Adlai Ewing Stevenson
It's ridiculous to accept on a blog or in a forum speech what would be seen as hooliganism or delinquency if practiced in a public space."37
— Danielle Keats Citron
Cobden was the greatest statesman and prophet of the century. His speeches are an inspiration. A man whose disciple I am willing to confess I am.
— Richard Cobden
I'm just wondering, folks, if I gave a speech on anti-capitalism, do you think I could be named Person of the Year by 'TIME Magazine?'
— Rush Limbaugh
Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
— Thomas Carlyle
Speech gave man a unique power to lead a double life, he could say one thing and do another.
— James Harvey Robinson
Each partof speech a spark
awaiting redemption, each
a virtue, a power
in abeyance ... — Denise Levertov
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg fell asleep during Obama's speech. She woke up with the other justices drawing a gavel on her face.
— Conan O'Brien
a craving for the cloud of unknowing beyond knowledge and for the silence beyond speech,
— Susan Sontag
Wanna know the secret to nailing a great speech? It's simple--don't trust words.
— Stephen David Hurley
He didn't say that. He read what was given to him in a speech.
— Richard Darman
I suffered from a quite severe speech impediment when I was young, and keeping a journal was part of the therapy.
— George Fetherling
Let thy carriage be such as becomes a man grave settled and attentive to that which is spoken. Contradict not, at every turn, what others say.
— George Washington
A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.
— Brendan Behan
A great speech is literature.
— Peggy Noonan
I don't like jokes in speeches. I do like wit and humor. A joke is to humor what pornography is to erotic language in a good novel.
— James C. Humes
I had worked so hard for so long that I developed a speech impediment. It happens when I get tired.
— Tobe Hooper
The only security of all is in a free press.
— Thomas Jefferson
Every man may speak truly, but to speak methodically, prudently, and fully is a talent that few men have.
— Michel De Montaigne
I've had a lot of fear in my life, from fear of flying to fear of making a speech in front of a lot of people.
— Chris Evert
When a man is asked to make a speech, the first thing he has to decide is what to say.
— Gerald R. Ford
It is a great misfortune not to possess sufficient wit to speak well, nor sufficient judgment to keep silent.
— Jean De La Bruyere
When you give a speech you don't go through a laundry list, you talk about the things that you think are important.
— Mitt Romney
I was also going to give a graduation speech in Arizona this weekend. But with my accent, I was afraid they would try to deport me.
— Arnold Schwarzenegger
Freedom of Speech has become Freedom of Stupidity on the internet. Some ignominious users should not be given a voice to comment at all.
— Michael P. Naughton
Words travel as swiftly as desire, so it is possible to send a message of love without them.
— Laura Esquivel
Too many words are lit for a beast of burden.
— Yunus Emre
Anyone who has ever had the feeling of being higher than a kite after giving a public speech is well aware of the effects of attention.
— Keith Henson
He who restrains his tongue has a leash on his enemy.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Worrying that banning flag desecration would inhibit free speech reveals a misunderstanding of the flag's fundamental nature.
— Adrian Cronauer
The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The past above, the future belowand the present pouring down: the roar,
the roar of the present, a speech
is, of necessity, my sole concern. — William Carlos Williams
A free press is one that prints a dictator's speech but doesn't have to.
— Laurence J. Peter
I don't rely on the media. I usually average one speech a day for 25 years. People know me because I'm out there.
— Joe Arpaio
If you can come up with a snappy little slogan, then you have a future in winning tagline competitions or being a political speech writer.
— Mark Victor Hansen
Better than a long speech is a single quietening word.
— Gautama Buddha
Aggressive civil disobedience should be confined to a vindication of the right of free speech and free association.
— Mahatma Gandhi
A freedom given up is not so easily regained.
— Rivera Sun
The accent of a man's native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
I thought I would lose, so I didn't prepare a speech.
— E.L. Doctorow
In a noisy place I can't understand speech, because I cannot screen out the background noise.
— Temple Grandin
P.E. was my life in school. Without it, I wouldn't be standing here. It gave me confidence when I was an overweight kid with a speech impediment.
— Herschel Walker
It is well, when in difficulties, to say never a word, neither black nor white. Speech is silver but silence is golden.
— Muriel Spark
As I've been acting since I was young it's taught me to give a good speech, and, though I say so myself, I did it pretty well.
— Jonathan Krohn
I am sorry to have made such a long speech, but I did not have time to write a shorter one.
— Winston Churchill
Trust me, I have never written a speech in my life, and if I have my way, I never will.
— Curt Schilling
Back then, Miss Sarah pulled words up from her throat like she was raising water from a well.
— Sue Monk Kidd
A master of improvised speech and improvised policies.
— A.J.P. Taylor
It was a profound saying of Wilhelm Humboldt, that 'Man is man only by means of speech, but in order to invent speech he must be already man.'
— Charles Lyell
Music ... a kind of inarticulate, unfathomable speech, which leads to the edge of the Infinite.
— Thomas Carlyle
So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
The roots of a lasting relationship are mindfulness, deep listening and loving speech, and a strong community to support you.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Yet the time-deaf are unable to speak what they know. For speech needs a sequence of words, spoken in time.
— Alan Lightman
Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.
— Benjamin Franklin
The animals have no need for speech, why talk when you are a word.
— Margaret Atwood
In a victory speech, I always like to thank the opposition, because without their help and stupidity, I couldn't have won.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour
The skeptic, being a lover of his kind, desires to cure by speech, as best he can, the self-conceit and rashness of the dogmatists.
— Sextus Empiricus
We should pass a flex time law that allows employees to take their overtime pay in money or in time off, depending on what's better for their family.
— William J. Clinton
Hubert Humphrey's wife is said to have advised him: Darling, for a speech to be immortal it need not be interminable.
— Peggy Noonan
Americans have the will to resist because you have weapons. If you don't have a gun, freedom of speech has no power.
— Yoshimi Ishikawa
A story is told as much by silence as by speech.
— Susan Griffin
We're the most aggressively inarticulate generation to come along since, you know, a long time ago!
— Taylor Mali
Speech is the best show a man puts on.
— Benjamin Lee Whorf
If the Prodigal Son's a parable, and if Adam and Eve are metaphors, then maybe God is just figure of speech.
— Dan Barker
I may be deprived of eloquence, but my mind can never be a dumb.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
If you can't write freely and if you can't speak freely in your country, you can be sure that you are living in a very primitive country!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Speech that leads not to action, still more that hinders it, is a nuisance on the earth.
— Thomas Carlyle
Don't give a speech. Put on a show.
— Paul Arden
Twas a special gift of God that speech was given to mankind; for through the Word, and not by force, wisdom governs.
— Martin Luther
But in love each moment is magnified, and every gesture, word and syllable is examined like a speech by the President.
— Hanif Kureishi
Yet accurate speech about anything, and especially about God, is in fact a rhythm of silence and speech, speaking and listening.
— Ellen F. Davis
