Quotes About Speech

Between my brain and my mouth there should be a filter where common sense kicks in before I deliver a word, but I think when God made me he forgot the filter.

As for memes, the word 'meme' is a cliche, which is to say it's already a meme. We all hear it all the time, and maybe we even have started to use it in ordinary speech. The man who invented it was Richard Dawkins, who was, not coincidentally, an evolutionary biologist. And he invented it as an analog for the gene.

A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.

People only stutter at the beginning of the word. They're not afraid when they get to the end of the word. There's just regret.

The right word fitly spoken is a precious rarity.

The unspoken word never does harm.

The word 'ranting' is kind of overused now. Literally, if you just talk about a subject for 30 seconds or more, even if you never raised your voice, if I just talk about it, it's called a rant.

It's hard to believe President George Bush gave a speech in New Orleans about disaster recovery and failed to mention the word 'farm' or the word 'rural.'

If only I was as eloquent as Demosthenes, I would have to do no more than repeat a single word three times.

I want to be able to speak with errors in my wording, errors in my grammar. When you type things into Google search, it corrects your words. With speech, I want it to be general enough, smart enough, to know 'No, he couldn't have meant these words that I think he said. He must have really meant something similar.'

Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Words are the money of fools.

All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.

Words have a lot of power.

Words are potent weapons for all causes, good or bad.

A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour.

In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.

Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.

A fool and his words are soon parted.

Be able to correctly pronounce the words you would like to speak and have excellent spoken grammar.

Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.

There's a voice in all of us, and you can only get expressive through words. There's a limit to what you can do without speaking.

I love the English language. Words have power.