Quotes About Speech

Verbal hemophilia. Why can't I clot?

Sometimes the facts in my head get bored and decide to take a walk in my mouth. Frequently this is a bad thing.

The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork. Day to day pours out speech, and night to night reveals knowledge. There is no speech, nor are there words, whose voice is not heard. (Ps. 19:1–3)

Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen. And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. (Eph. 4:29–30 NIV)

So speak and so act as those who are to be judged under the law of liberty. For judgment is without mercy to one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment. (James 2:12–13)

The words of the reckless pierce like swords, but the tongue of the wise brings healing. (Prov. 12:18 NIV)

Know this, my beloved brothers: Let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness that God requires. (James 1:19–20)

Next thing he spoke and I nearly said I loved him.

I'm going to make a long speech because I've not had the time to prepare a short one.

Freedom of the press and also of speech, assembly, and worship can persist as social forms and legal guarantees, while at the same time their functional realities can be gradually slipping away.

Obviously, there's a million things we're allowed to say on late-night cable that you're not allowed to say on a prime time broadcast.

The time-deaf are unable to speak what they know. For speech needs a sequence of words, spoken in time.

I am very enamored with the free press, and I was part of it for a period of time.

Jimmy Stewart could have been a good golfer, but he speaks so slowly that by the time he yells 'Fore!' the guy he's hit is already in an ambulance on the way to the hospital.

The man [Donald Trump] seems to out-trump himself - no pun intended - every time he speaks in his bid to win the Republican nomination.

Every time my brain parks the car neatly in the driveway, my mouth drives through the back of the garage.

All I do is see all these incidents of [Hillary Clinton's] coughing all the time. I don't know what it is.

I go back and forth as to whether I think Nancy Pelosi's really this dumb or not. Although, every time I hear her speak I get closer and closer to concluding that she is this dumb.

There's a negative connotation to internet trolls, but at the same time this is becoming mainstream. This kind of speech pattern, the way people speak, this is common on the internet.

Donald Trump does what everybody who voted for him wishes would happen every time the left pipes up.

Some people are born with the first word of a language resting on their tongue though it may take some time before they can taste it.

Particularly [Alfred] Hitchcock, who takes his time with everything he says. There's a controlling way in how he speaks because he takes his time to finish all his sentences.

It has to be living, to learn the speech of the place, It has to face the man of the time.

I am sorry to have made such a long speech, but I did not have time to write a shorter one.