Quotes About Speech

You don't know about falling off cliffs, Prep­pie,' she said. 'You never fell off one in your god­damn life.' 'Yeah,' I said, re­cov­er­ing the power of speech. 'When I met you.

Wichtigtuer sind zwar zu gut erzogen, um mit vollem Mund zu sprechen. Aber sie haben keine Bedenken, es mit leerem Kopf zu tun.

Don't make use of another's mouth unless it has been lent to you.

The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.

Words like that can cost a man his head.

The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

I will speak ill of no man, and speak all the good i know of everyone

Talking and eloquence are not the same to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

Language reveals the man. Speak that I may see thee.

Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee

Language most shews a man: Speak, that I may see thee.

Riches, the dumb god that giv'st all men tongues, / That canst do nought, and yet mak'st men do all things; / The price of souls; even hell, with thee to boot, / Is made worth heaven!

To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

I could displace the mystery of my speech onto writing, the latter perhaps recharging the former

he passed, as he often passed, a mysterious threshold. He began to feel less like he was delivering a speech and more like a speech was delivering him, that the rhythm and intonation of his presentation were beginning to dictate its content, that he no longer had to organize his arguments so much as let them flow through him.

he was nevertheless more in the realm of poetry than of prose, his speech stretched by speed and intensity until he felt its referential meaning dissolve into pure form.

Bird speech at the circle of willis results in migrant noises or 'puddles' that amass near the head of the pedestrian, rallying it toward a form of disruption within the flowing crowd.

In my own speech the next morning, August 31, I had to walk a fine line.

The principles in his speech seemed sensible and pragmatic to me.

Freedom of speech and thought matters, especially when it is speech and thought with which we disagree. The moment the majority decides to destroy people for engaging in thought it dislikes, thought crime becomes a reality.

It was one thing to suggest that Bush had lied America into a war for oil. It was another to speak while Obama was speaking.

More than six in ten Americans say they fear saying what they think, including a majority of liberals, 64 percent of moderates, and fully 77 percent of conservatives.

Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues.

And I have listened also, in my youth, And more than once or twice, To the trained speech, the excellent advice, The clear, dramatic statement of the sum, And, after it was dumb, Heard, like a spook, the curious echo come, The echo of unkempt and drawling mirth --The lounging mirth of cracker-barrel men, Snowed in by winter, spitting at the fire, And telling the disreputable truth With the sad eye that marks the perfect liar-- And, by that laughter, was set free again.