Quotes About Speech

The freedom of speech of private individuals includes the right to not agree, not to listen, and not to finance one's own antagonists.

But don't I have any freedom of speech?" "In your own house. Not in mine." "Don't I have a right to my own ideas?" "At your own expense. Not at mine." "Don't you tolerate any differences of opinion?" "Not when I'm paying the bills.

I wonder what my speech would be.

I think it. I say it. You hear it. Sometimes, I don't even think it, I just say it.

Within him something bade to cry out. He had the impulse to make a rallying speech, to sing a battle hymn, but he could only get his tongue to call into the air: "Why—why—what—what 's th' matter?

Why—why—" stammered the youth struggling with his balking tongue.

The businessmen spoke little and did much, while the politicians did as little as possible and spoke much.

In normal speech and prose our thoughts and feelings are diluted (by stock phrases and roundabout approximations); in poetry those thoughts and feelings can be, must be, concentrated.

There should be a way to surgically remove and store children's tongues as soon as they learn to speak," said Hugh. "Then, when they've graduated from college and distinguished themselves in the workplace, they could file a petition to have their tongues reattached." "I don't think that's feasible

Speech destroys the function of love, I think-that's a hell of a thing for a writer to say, I guess, but I believe it to be true. If you speak to tell a deer you mean it no harm, it glides away with a single flip of its tail. Love has teeth; they bite; the wounds never close. No word, no combination of words can close those love bites. it's the other way around, that's the joke. If those wounds dry up, the words die with them.

The thought process can never be complete without articulation.

Money talks, bullshit walks.

Relief loosens tongues beyond measure.

My tongue runs like a supermarket conveyor belt on payday.

They ought to make it a law that you have to get a license, or at least a learner's permit, before you're allowed to talk. Until you pass your Talker's Test, you should have to be a mute.

Actions win wars. Actions heal wounds. Not words. Words are cheap. Mine, particularly. -Drew Evans.

In thoughts, be wise. In speech, be cautious. In sentiment, be positive. In actions, be prudent.

Guard well your thoughts when alone and your words when accompanied.

Knowing what to say is sense, when to say it is intelligence, how to say it is wisdom, why and how to say it is enlightenment.

Beautiful silence is better than ugly speech.

A slip of the foot is better than a slip of the tongue.

If you are silent, be silent out of love. If you speak, speak out of love.

He opened his mouth as if he wanted to say something to me but had forgotten what it was.

Podesta had just left the Peninsula for the Javits Center. He went over because the campaign's contract expired at 2:30 a.m., which was nearing, and there was still no decision from Hillary on what she wanted to do, other than avoid giving a public concession speech that night.