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Quotes About Speech

People will say what they want to say, in the way they want to.
~ Nigel Rees
I went to a dialect coach and she told me that I had five problems; two were my Israeli accent and three were my New Jersey accent. I don't even want to know what I sounded like back then!
~ Odeya Rush
Gorbachev gave us freedom of worship and freedom of speech and freedom to see what was going on and freedom to vote, but that freedom won't last unless it is underpinned by economic freedom.
~ Boris Yeltsin
Get what you can with words, because words are free, but the words of an armed man ring that much sweeter.
~ Joe Abercrombie, The Heroes
Nonviolence is not just abstention from war, fighting, or animal flesh. It is abstention from negative thoughts and negative speech.
~ Nathaniel Altman
My mouth always worked a whole lot faster than my good sense.
~ Susan Crandall
Hey, everybody, Jerry Maguire's here.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
If you let words go buzzing out of your mouth like bees, she always told me, they will come back and sting you.
~ Susan Fletcher
My auntie Chava used to tell me to chew my words before letting them out. "Seven times, Majan," she would say. "Chew them seven times.
~ Susan Fletcher
United Nations agenda. The manifesto states, "The library is a prerequisite to let citizens make use of their right to information and freedom of speech. Free access to information is necessary in a democratic society, for open debate and creation of public opinion.
~ Susan Orlean
The library is a prerequisite to let citizens make use of their right to information and freedom of speech. Free access to information is necessary in a democratic society, for open debate and creation of public opinion.
~ Susan Orlean
The failed experiment, the bird that could repeat human speech, that had been a tool for espionage until the rebels had figured out its abilities and sent it back carrying false information. Now the useless creatures were creating an echo chamber filled with the Avoxes' pitiful wails.
~ Suzanne Collins
Things seemed clear in my head and even when I talked before the crowd, but the words never came out of the pen right. Besides,
~ Suzanne Collins
You're alive," I whisper, pressing my palms against my cheeks, feeling the smile that's so wide it must look like a grimace. Peeta's alive. And a traitor. But at the moment, I don't care. Not what he says, or who he says it for, only that he is still capable of speech.
~ Suzanne Collins
Sometimes my quotes may be too colorful.
~ Earl Butz
I was going to play pro baseball. That was the dream. But in my sophomore year of high school a teacher who knew I performed, singing in church, she said, 'You know we have a speech team,' and she handed me a copy of 'The Crucible.'
~ Christopher Jackson
I'm sorry Alex Jones, but the content that InfoWars has been putting out is just flat out lies. You are entitled to say whatever it is that you want, that is fine; you are not entitled to a megaphone if that information is false.
~ Christopher Wylie
Acoustic phonetics, which is developing and increasing in richness very rapidly, already enables us to solve many of the mysteries of sound, mysteries which motor phonetics could not even begin to solve.
~ Roman Jakobson
Now the identification of individual sounds by phonetic observation is an artificial way of proceeding.
~ Roman Jakobson
At first acoustics attributed to the different sounds only a limited number of characteristic features.
~ Roman Jakobson
I, on the other hand, have a bit of a southern accent.
~ Michael W. Smith
The touched heart madly stirs, your laughter is water hurrying over pebbles - every gesture is a proclamation, every sound is speech...
~ Sappho
A woman is always better in everything with the mouth
~ she talks a lot.
People appear like angels until you hear them speak. You must not rush to judge people by the colour of their cloaks, but by the content of their words!
~ Israelmore Ayivor