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I gave a funny speech at my wife's birthday party, and I'm thinking, 'Hey, I've still got it.' — Larry David

A good speech should be a like a woman's skirt: long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest. - WINSTON CHURCHILL — Bill McGowan

The question is not how to get managers' emotional commitment but why manager's don't give it even if they like their company. — Stan Slap

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

Some people still believe you should just fall in line with what's going on - and that's scary. It makes a mockery of freedom of speech. — Emily Robison

You can't talk about fucking in America, people say you're dirty. But if you talk about killing somebody, that's cool. — Richard Pryor

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

...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

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

Hand in hand with freedom of speech goes the power to be heard, to share in the decisions of government which shape men's lives. — Robert Kennedy

A free society is one where it's safe to be unpopular, but then, freedom of speech also carries with it the freedom not to listen! — Ashwin Sanghi

It is poverty's speech that seeks us out the most.
It is older than the oldest speech of Rome.
This is the tragic accent of the scene. — Wallace Stevens

Slow down, especially at the beginning of a speech. You'll get the audience's attention by pausing. — Bob Kerrey

Neil Kinnock's speeches go on for so long because he has nothing to say and so he has no way of knowing when he's finished saying it. — John Major

Lebanon is the only country where media kills more than bombs, injures more than guns ... and at last they say freedom of speech ... — Hussein S. Hariri

Krispy Kreme claims the 'batter is the best part.' Same with an Obama speech. It's all about what's on the outside, not what's inside. — Kathleen Troia McFarland

The law is agnostic about truth. It's very skeptical of ultimate truth. That's why freedom of speech permits lies to be told. — Alan Dershowitz

The measure of man's ability to extend the sphere of social possibility can only start with the values of democracy. — Auliq Ice

If you have to make an unpopular speech, give it all the sincerity you can muster; that's the only way to sweeten it. — Jean Francois Paul De Gondi

The time has now come to amend the Constitution to restore freedom of speech for America's people of faith. — Ralph E. Reed Jr.

APOLLO'S DAILY MOTIVATIONAL SPEECH
You are gorgeous and people love you! — Rick Riordan

Speech one may regret,
Silence no sorrow begets,
Humility be born before honour,
Soft answer turns wrath's corner — Munindra Misra

We shape our dwellings and afterwards our dwellings shape us. — Winston S. Churchill

I'm Valerie Rye,' she said, savoring the words. 'It's all right for you to talk to me. — Octavia E. Butler

is speech a subject's very constitution and assembly, which then makes experience possible. — Erin Moure

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

Tell me: what's more obscene than fucking waste?
Death is in quite poor taste, if you ask me. — Eleanor Brown

Wanna know the secret to nailing a great speech? It's simple--don't trust words. — Stephen David Hurley

How many people saw Arnold's speech last night? I haven't seen that many Kennedys in one place since their last trial. — David Letterman

Peace means loyalty to self ... And loyalty to one's self means never a gap between thought, speech, act. — Ruth Beebe Hill

The identity badge pinned to Sandrine's white tunic says "Speech Therapist," but it should read "Guardian Angel. — Jean-Dominique Bauby

It's better to say nothing than spend 1,000 words or an hour speech saying nothing. Get to the point. — Richard Branson

Oh, my dear friend, it is impossible not to give oneself away - unless one never opens one's mouth! Speech is the deadliest of revealers. — Agatha Christie

Where's there's money involved, there are no good guys. — Robert Glaser

Make it your goal to employ the sweet speech that marks you as a wife after God's own heart. — Elizabeth George

The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Liberty of speech invites and provokes liberty to be used again, and so bringeth much to a man's knowledge. — Francis Bacon

They judged me like they would judge themselves and that's what they could never understand, we are all human but we are not the same. — Nikki Rowe

In the Reagan administration, a great speech was just the first step in a long process. In the Obama administration, it's the only step. — Kathleen Troia McFarland

Being civilized means that one keeps one's words unrelated to one's thoughts, when necessary. — Ursula Parrott

It's not Big Brother that we now have to be afraid of, but Big Browser. — Eliot Spitzer

It is difficult to tell how much men's minds are conciliated by a kind manner and gentle speech. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Of lovers whose bodies smell of each other
Who think the same thoughts without need of speech — T. S. Eliot

A Speechmaker's Prayer:
"Let each word of mine be tender and sweet,
Just in case someone might make me eat it. — Ana Claudia Antunes

The old expression goes, a good speech is like a woman's skirt: short enough to hold your attention, long enough to cover the subject. — Jonathan Tropper

I've discovered this new electronic technique that creates new speech out of stuff that's already there. — Brian Eno

Within a year of O'Neilrs speech, Alcoa's profits would hit a rec- ord high. — Charles Duhigg

Kind words produce their images on men's souls. — Blaise Pascal

As far as I can tell, it's just about letting the universe know what you want and then working toward it while letting go of how it comes to pass. — Jim Carrey

He whose speech, behavior and humility captivates people's minds, becomes worthy of worship by people. — Dada Bhagwan

Well I thought my razor was dull until I heard his speech, and
that reminds me of a story that's so dirty I'm ashamed to think of
it myself. — Groucho Marx

For jokes as well as justice come in with speech.
- Aslan, The Magician's Nephew — C.S. Lewis

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. — S.G. Tallentyre

I am out of humanity's reach.I must finish my journey alone,Never hear the sweet music of speech;I start at the sound of my own. — William Cowper

Listen to God's speech in his wondrous, terrible, gentle, loving, all-embracing silence. — Catherine Doherty

He used a minimum of words and no inflection whatsoever. It was a policeman's manner of speaking, direct and unadorned. — Davis Bunn

The accent of one's birthplace persists in the mind and heart as much as in speech. — La Rouchefoucauld

Oh my God, can we not talk about puberty?! I'm still not over my mom's "you're a woman now" speech. — G. Willow Wilson

Men aren't known for spilling their guts. It's like their penises block some forms of speech. — Renee Ericson

Advertising is speech. It's regulated because it's often effective speech. — Jef I. Richards

I was about 13 or 14 when I heard Malcolm X's speech 'Message to the Grass Roots.' — Ta-Nehisi Coates

The color of the mountains is Buddha's body; the sound of running water is his great speech. — Dogen

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

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

Irony is Fate's most common figure of speech. — Trevanian

I am sure that as soon as speech was invented, efforts to suppress and control it began, and that process of suppression continues unabated. — Gilbert S. Merritt Jr.

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

Alliteration seems to offend people. — Dean Koontz

This is slavery, not to speak one's thought. — Euripides

However great one's gift of language may be, there is always something that one cannot tell. — Mary MacLane

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

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

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

You have been fraternizing with warewolves overmuch! Military men can be terribly bad for one's verbal concatenation! — Gail Carriger

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

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

It's hard to make speeches with your hair in your face! — Michelle Obama

I think it's appropriate in America for anyone to speak out and say what their reaction is to the president's State of the Union speech. — Jim Jordan

Verse is the natural speech of men, as singing is of birds'
The Week's Survey, 18 June 1904 — Edward Thomas

It's far more important why is being said, than what. — Aleksandra Ninkovic

This speech was one of the crucial blows of Connie's life. It killed something in her. — D.H. Lawrence

No speech is ever considered, but only the speaker. It's so much easier to pass judgement on a man than on an idea. — Ayn Rand

Sarcasm. It's not just a form of speech; it's a dear friend. Oh, — Jenn Cooksey

Horace Greeley's conversation inevitably becomes a speech. — Harold Holzer

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The most terrifying thing in the world was having to give a speech at my girlfriend's wedding. I was physically shaking and sweating the entire time. — Lindy Booth

Remember this: a story that must be told never forgives silence. Speech is the mouth's debt to a story. — Okey Ndibe

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

For some time it's been my habit to use images when preparing a speech: rather than write it down, I illustrate it. — Dario Fo

It is a truth forever, that where the speech of man stops short there Music's reign begins. — Richard Wagner

The right to free speech is important but it isn't as important as 'we're all human beings together, let's find solutions together.' — Russell Brand

A man is entitled to say whatever he wants to say. It's America, freedom of speech. — Reggie Evans

The speech of God's beautiful woman is a fountain of life to those around her. — Elizabeth George

Sound is a subtle form of speech and then more subtle than sound is silence and that's like the realm of being. — MC Yogi

I grew up with the concept of freedom of speech. So I'm too old, it's too late for me to adjust to the new world, the new world order. — Bobby Fischer

Harrison's 8,400-word inaugural speech was the longest ever, while his 30-day Presidency was the shortest. — George Washington

Good dialogue is not real speech-it's the illusion of real speech. — Ernest Hemingway,

Worrying that banning flag desecration would inhibit free speech reveals a misunderstanding of the flag's fundamental nature. — Adrian Cronauer

Naturally, I always place my word over anyone else's simply because I know why I said what I said. — Criss Jami