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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

And, after speech, it provided a readier instrument for the dissemination of nonsense than the world has ever known until our time. — Will Durant

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

If you want me to give you a two-hour presentation, I am ready today. If you want only a five-minute speech, it will take me two weeks to prepare. — Mark Twain

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 part
of 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

A mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power. — Quintilian

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

It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. — Mark Twain

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

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. — Robert Orben

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

There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech. — Allan Bloom

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

You can't expect to communicate with anyone if you're a bore. — John Cheever

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

All the most powerful speeches ever made point to a better future. — Patrick Dixon

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

Word Powers:
A beautiful bitch has four legs, not two. Even terms of, so called, endearment have unintended manifestations. Guard your grill. — T.F. Hodge

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 below
and the present pouring down: the roar,
the roar of the present, a speech
is, of necessity, my sole concern. — William Carlos Williams

The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. — Walter Bagehot

Silence is a figure of speech, unanswerable, short, cold, but terribly severe. — Theodore Parker

A free press is one that prints a dictator's speech but doesn't have to. — Laurence J. Peter

I have reached the conclusion, a bit late perhaps, that speeches should be short. — Fidel Castro

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

It's a wise person who knows the difference between free speech and cheap talk. — Doug Larson

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

Out of evil comes good, however, and the confusion of tongues gave rise to 'the ancient practice of Masons conversing without the use of speech.' — A. E. Waite

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

You wouldn't hurt a virgin, would you? Where do you think they get virgin olive oil, huh? Don't you think we're pathetic enough as it is? — Italy

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

Eminem's 'Lose Yourself' is my go-to song to pump myself up if I'm having a tough time or if I get really nervous right before a speech. — Sara Blakely

By sincerity, a man gains physical, mental and linguistic straightforwardness, and harmonious tendency; that is, congruence of speech and action. — Mahavira

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

Asquith, when drunk, can make a better speech than any of us when sober. — Bonar Law

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

I should think a dead language would be rather boring, socially
speaking. — Sol Luckman

It is not easy to describe the present position of legal opinion on advertising and free speech. Only a poet can capture the essence of chaos. — Bill Vaughan

Hubert Humphrey's wife is said to have advised him: Darling, for a speech to be immortal it need not be interminable. — Peggy Noonan

I fear yet this iron yoke of outward conformity hath left a slavish print upon our necks: the ghost of a linnen decency yet haunts us. — John Milton

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

Place a padlock on your throat and hide the key. — Rumi

We're the most aggressively inarticulate generation to come along since, you know, a long time ago! — Taylor Mali

There is a fine line between free speech and hate speech. Free speech encourages debate whereas hate speech incites violence. — Newton Lee

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

I often felt the girls' speech was interchangeable, without any individuality whatsoever, a kind of herd-speak they had all agreed upon ... [p. 48] — Siri Hustvedt

Yet accurate speech about anything, and especially about God, is in fact a rhythm of silence and speech, speaking and listening. — Ellen F. Davis

A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together. — Margaret Atwood

I would have been better than Adolf Hitler. I could have delivered his speeches a lot better ... that's for certain. — Klaus Kinski