Quotes About Speech

It's hard to learn an American accent. Some of the Rs at the ends of words are incredibly hard.

My mother had an incredibly strong accent - although I couldn't hear it - and she was the main person there, so I'll have learnt to speak English from her.

Henry accompanied these resolutions with a fiery speech given the next day in which he concluded, "Caesar had his Brutus, Charles the First his Cromwell and George the Third"—amid cries of "Treason" that arose from all sides of the room—"and George the Third," he continued artfully, "may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it!

As to the evil which results from a censorship, it is impossible to measure it, because it is impossible to tell where it ends.

This can't be constitutional," he said. "This is America, damn it. We still have freedom of speech here.

Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.

It was impossible to get a conversation going. Everyone was talking too much.

I break up the English a little bit. I don't mean to do it, but it just comes out that way.

Betty G. Birney

We have these cultural norms, and we allow people to say ugly things. We don't have to like it, we don't have to invite them to our dinner parties, but you should let them say it.

Neither rings, bright chains, nor bracelets, perfumes, flowers, nor well-trimmed hair, Grace a man like polished language, th' only jewel he should wear.

Truthful speech provides, in the sphere of interpersonal communication, a parallel to wisdom in the sphere of private understanding.

Speech can break lives, create enemies, and start wars, or it can give wisdom, heal divisions, and create peace. This has always been so, yet in the modern age the positive and negative potentials of speech have been vastly multiplied by the tremendous increase in the means, speed, and range of communications.

Do not speak fast, for that shows folly.

Truthful lips endure forever, the lying tongue, for only a moment.

With his mouth the godless man destroys his neighbor, but through knowledge the righteous will be delivered.

Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps.

If you watch what you think about, you won't have to watch what you talk about.

All free men, wherever they live, are citizens of Berlin," said the president. "And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words, 'Ich bin ein Berliner.

the camera as he talks, looking at notes.

A handful of the senior officers listening to the speech disapproved of Patton's coarse language. Patton could not care less. He believes that profanity is the language of the soldier, and that to speak to soldiers one must use words that will have the most impact.

In this ongoing process, the Program is asking us to go where none of us has ever been before—into lives of lessened fear, diminished anger, fewer resentments, and genuine self-esteem instead of self-pity. There is a price, however: the willingness to challenge and change patterns of thought, speech, and behavior that may have gone unchallenged for ten, twenty, thirty years or more.

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

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.