Quotes About Speech

I have a hyperbolical tongue: it catches fire as it goes. I dare say I shall have to retract.

Good words are worth much, and cost little.

I won this award for keeping my mouth shut, so I think I'll do it again now.

I was always a clown. In the eighth grade I won a city speech contest by doing an Eddie Murphy routine. I'm no good at public speaking, but if I can assume a role and speak as that person, then I'm fine. When I had to give a book report, I always did it in character.

I had a scholarship to Stanford because I won three California Speech tournaments. Before I started Stanford, I told my mother I wanted to take a bus into Hollywood and see if I could get an agent.

I feel like if I won an award and I was giving my speech and the music started, that's all I'd remember, the humiliation I felt when the music started. It would mar the entire experience for me.

Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak, and speak immediately, while the echoes of wonder, the claims of triumph and the signs of horror are still in the air.

Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Probably so we can think twice.

It's wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago.

The human brain is a wonderful organ. It starts to work as soon as you are born and doesn't stop until you get up to deliver a speech.

We're allowed to say wonderful things about the Royal Family in the House of Commons. What you're not allowed to say is: anything that might be truthful, but that might upset them. So from time to time I've been pulled up because I've said things which I think are important.

The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the graphic art are taxed beyond their powers in attempting to portray its features. Language and illustration combined must fail.

I had a relationship with John Wooden. I spoke at his memorial service.

Well I have a microphone and you don't so you will listen to every damn word I have to say!

A word once uttered can never be recalled.

A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.

I had a speech class in elementary school. And you know how teachers, when a kid is struggling to pronounce a word, used to lead him and say, 'Johnny, sounds like... ? Johnny, sounds like... ?' I said out loud, 'Sounds like Johnny can't read.' Teacher told me to leave the room.

Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.

If you don't know how to pronounce a word, say it loud!

The spoken word is man's physician in grief. For this alone has soothing charms for the soul.

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

As long as a word remains unspoken, you are its master; once you utter it, you are its slave.

I find Shakespeare terrifying. When Simon Russell Beale does a speech, I understand every word of it, but if I did the same speech, people would be going, 'Huh? What?'

My lad chewed and swallowed a dictionary. We gave him Epsom salts - but we can't get a word out of him.