Speech Quotes

The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture.

The task is to investigate speech sounds in relation to the meanings with which they are invested, i.e., sounds viewed as signifiers, and above all to throw light on the structure of the relation between sounds and meaning.

I indeed had only one scene, one speech, one little speech, but it was with Robin Williams.

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

George Orwell's contention was that it is a sure sign of trouble when things can no longer be called by their right names and described in plain, forthright speech.

We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action.

The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech.

Marks on paper are free - free speech - press - pictures all go together I suppose.

Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.

Tears at times have the weight of speech.

Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.

U.S.A. is the speech of the people.

Israel is a country that respects freedom - freedom of assembly, freedom of speech and freedom of worship.

Well, my brother says Hello. So, hooray for speech therapy.

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

If Thomas Jefferson had heard us, he probably would have said, 'We shouldn't have free speech.'

Verse, singing, and speech have a common origin.

The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech.

Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.

I wasn't a kid growing up thinking, 'One day I'll get an Oscar and make a speech.' That wasn't on my mind.

Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.

Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts.

A master of improvised speech and improvised policies.

Religious speech is extreme, emotional, and motivational. It is anti-literal, relying on metaphor, allusion, and other rhetorical devices, and it assumes knowledge within a community of believers.

Free speech includes the right to not speak.

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

I've never made a film using dialogue or speech.

There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.

I believe in poetic discourse, in the value of speech in a non-naturalistic way; it's speculative.

I never have really said much about the whole episode, which was endless. But his speech was a perfectly intelligent speech about fathers not being dispensable and nobody agreed with that more than I did.

By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of censorship that by its very existence chills free speech.

Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection.

Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech.

This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over.

Everybody favours free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground.

Eloquent speech is not from lip to ear, but rather from heart to heart.

As a consequence, the Court ruled that the limits on campaign spending violated the First Amendment, but it accepted the $1,000 limit on individual contributions on the ground that the need to avoid the appearance of corruption justified this limited constraint on speech.

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

I talked to women who lived there, to get their speech patterns and outlook on life - and how narrow that is.

What we need to do in this PC world is forget about unanimity of speech and unanimity of thought and we need to concentrate on being respectful of those people with whom we disagree.

Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.

A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.

I like all things grammatical, and I had already written several books about parts of speech, and even the alphabet, so everything that makes up a sentence and even a word was covered except for punctuation.

Into this, for good or ill, is woven every belief of every man who has speech of his fellows. A awful privilege, and an awful responsibility, that we should help to create the world in which posterity will live.

You can't just give a speech and expect people to fall down and agree with you.

I went to Julliard where they use a lot of voice and speech exercises.

I've decided to cut out the part of the speech where I say anything nice about Democrats.

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

I believe in freedom of speech, but I believe we should also have the right to comment on freedom of speech.

Every couple of seconds out here they're honoring somebody. You've got to get dressed, go in and sit down. Invariably somebody makes a speech.

All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.

We don't have an Official Secrets Act in the United States, as other countries do. Under the First Amendment, freedom of the press, freedom of speech, and freedom of association are more important than protecting secrets.

I thought I would lose, so I didn't prepare a speech.

No matter how bad things are, they can always be worse. So what if my stroke left me with a speech impediment? Moses had one, and he did all right.

I'm very opinionated.

When a man is asked to make a speech, the first thing he has to decide is what to say.

I will be brief. Not nearly so brief as Salvador Dali, who gave the world's shortest speech. He said I will be so brief I have already finished, and he sat down.

A presidential speech is always the work of many hands.

Events don't happen because I write a speech. I am allowed to write a speech because events are going to happen.

Speech writers are more vulnerable to vanity than any other group of people in Washington.

Lord Chancellor, did I deliver the speech well? I am glad of that, for there was nothing in it.

The world is full of CEOs that think that just because they write a memo or they write a letter inside an annual report or they give a little video speech that gets sent around the company, they think that's what's really going to affect employees.

Monkeys who very sensibly refrain from speech, lest they should be set to earn their livings.

A story is told as much by silence as by speech.

I hated my childhood. It was loathsome. My parents were deaf and dumb. Profoundly so. They could make noises when they were emotionally aroused, but they couldn't form it into speech.

I think the interview form works best on the radio. There are a lot of personality traits conveyed in a person's voice, the rhythm of their speech or how confident they sound.

Lately I've been believing that music predates speech.

Unfortunately, opponents of online speech have decided to punish our changing technological world.

No one ever complains about a speech being too short!

My point is there's a hidden Scotland in anyone who speaks the Northern Ireland speech. It's a terrific complicating factor, not just in Northern Ireland, but Ireland generally.

Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

I had worked so hard for so long that I developed a speech impediment. It happens when I get tired.

It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.

Hubert, a speech doesn't have to be eternal to be immortal.

When you get something for nothing, you just haven't been billed for it yet.

You must stand for free speech in the streets.

A man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself - like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.

As to Magyar, I think that my speech was incorrect, inappropriate.