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...language is sacred. It has glory, even in ordinary speech. The way most people use it, it's like a winged horse pulling a junk wagon. — Robert K. Tanenbaum

One of the areas I have a little less confidence in is giving any kind of a speech. — Danica Patrick

Saying that it's all in your mind is a figure of speech. Don't let your mind play with your mental well being — Shellie Palmer

A fair degree of literacy of speech ... is increasingly rare in politicians and not necessarily regarded as an asset. — Rae Foley

Common fluency of speech in many men and most women is owing to a scarcity of matter. — Jonathan Swift

Free speech exercised both individually and through a free press, is a necessity in any country where people are themselves free. — Theodore Roosevelt

Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Speech, after all, is in some measure an expression of character, and flexibility in its use is a good way to tell your friends from the robots. — Jacques Barzun

Free software' is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of 'free' as in 'free speech,' not as in 'free beer'. — Richard Stallman

Lucidity of speech is unquestionably one of the surest tests of mental precision ... In my experience a confused talker is never a clear thinker. — David Lloyd George

While the Internet is censored in China, the censorship is allowing a level of speech to take place that's unprecedented. — Ethan Zuckerman

the written word is a recent invention that has left no trace in our genome and must be laboriously acquired throughout childhood and beyond. Speech — Steven Pinker

At least in America, you have freedom of speech, which is a good thing. It's just a question of whether you're allowed to use it on 'Fox News'. — Eric Idle

How brave a thing is freedom of speech, which has made the Athenians so far exceed every other state of Hellas in greatness! — Herodotus

In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society. — Noam Chomsky

The totality of utterances that can be made in a speech community is the language of that speech community. — Leonard Bloomfield

It is one thing to be eloquent and charming in profane speech, and another when the one speaking as a religious. — Saint Ignatius

I've always felt, even as a songwriter, that the rhythm of speech is in itself a language for me. — Cyndi Lauper

It is by speech that many of our best gains are made. A large part of the good we receive comes to us in conversation. — Washington Gladden

What we have is two important values in conflict: freedom of speech and our desire for healthy campaigns in a healthy democracy. You can't have both. — Dick Gephardt

I think the adverb is a much-maligned part of speech. It's always accused of being oppressive, even tyrannical, when in fact it's so supple and sly. — Eleanor Catton

There is also hope that even in these days of increasing specialization there is a unity in the human experience. — Allan McLeod Cormack

Kindness is not a word much at home in current political and religious speech, but it is a rich word and a necessary one. — Wendell Berry

Deliberation is not a particular type of speech, but a political act of collective decision-making in consideration of consequences. — F. David Mathews

In holy music's golden speech Remotest notes to notes respond: Each octave is a world; yet each Vibrates to worlds beyond its own. — Aubrey Thomas De Vere

A word in earnest is as good as a speech. — Charles Dickens

To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it. — G.K. Chesterton

The United States is a land of free speech. Nowhere is speech freer - not even here where we sedulously cultivate it even in its most repulsive form. — Winston Churchill

To have a specific style is to be poor in speech. — Herbert Spencer

It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing. — Herodotus

So much for a great opening speech, that sucker done tucked tail and is hiding in the deepest part of my brain, sucking its thumb. — Brandy Nacole

Free speech is a great idea, but were in a war. — Lindsey Graham

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

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

But in love each moment is magnified, and every gesture, word and syllable is examined like a speech by the President. — Hanif Kureishi

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

The only security of all is in a free press. — Thomas Jefferson

A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority. — Brendan Behan

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

Eloquence is the essential thing in a speech, not information. — Mark Twain

Be a craftsman in speech that thou mayest be strong, for the strength of one is the tongue, and speech is mightier than all fighting. — Ptahhotep

The free expression of the hopes and aspirations of a people is the greatest and only safety in a sane society. — Emma Goldman

A good oration is good and a good understanding is better, but a good action in the right direction that gets the best results is the best! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Searching for the Truth through words and speech is like sticking your head in a bowl of glue. — Yuanwu Keqin

Poetry is one of the destinies of speech ... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language. — Gaston Bachelard

Awareness is above intellect.
Intellect is above speech.
Speech is above knowledge.
For knowledge in itself is just a name. — Gian Kumar

Clarity of thought is a must for brevity in speech. — Somali K Chakrabarti

The only benefit a woman can have in talking too much is defeating a man who troubles her too much. — Michael Bassey Johnson

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

Falling down a flight of steps with a dagger in your back is a disease caused by unwise opening of the mouth. — Terry Pratchett

It is well, when in difficulties, to say never a word, neither black nor white. Speech is silver but silence is golden. — Muriel Spark

I could have said something profound, but you would have forgotten it in 15 minutes - which is the afterlife of a graduation speech. — Art Buchwald

A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions. — Confucius

Listening to a speech by [Neville] Chamberlain is like paying a visit to Woolworth's, everything in its place and nothing above sixpence. — Aneurin Bevan