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Quotes About Speech

She said yes. If only she didn't talk so much!
~ Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land
Better to say nothing at all, rather than something you'll regret.
~ Abe Musaibli
I will not go down to posterity talking bad grammar.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
The art of forceful speech.
~ Napoleon Hill
The only way for you to really know how your voice sounds to others is to record yourself. You will likely be surprised by how different it sounds when you hear it played back. Analyze the recording to find where and how you could make improvements. Note the tone, the pitch, and the rhythm of your speech patterns. Do your words flow smoothly, or do you stop and start and interrupt yourself with ums and ahs? Just by hearing yourself you will be able to make many improvements.
~ Napoleon Hill
A master salesperson has the ability to influence people through the printed page as well as by the spoken word.
~ Napoleon Hill
The way you speak and your tone of voice must be pleasing.
~ Napoleon Hill
Aut tace aut loquere meliora silencio (only when the words outperform silence). These
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Only he who is free with his time is free with his opinion.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Effectively, there is no democracy without such an unconditional symmetry in the rights to express yourself, and the gravest threat is the slippery slope in the attempts to limit speech on grounds that some of it may hurt some people's feelings. Such restrictions do not necessarily come from the state itself, rather from the forceful establishment of an intellectual monoculture by an overactive thought police in the media and cultural life.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Effectively, there is no democracy without such an unconditional symmetry in the rights to express yourself, and the gravest threat is the slippery slope in the attempts to limit speech on grounds that some of it may hurt some people's feelings.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Alan Turing came up with the following test: A computer can be said to be intelligent if it can (on average) fool a human into mistaking it for another human. The converse should be true. A human can be said to be unintelligent if we can replicate his speech by a computer, which we know is unintelligent, and fool a human into believing that it was written by a human.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Nature is a temple, where the living Columns sometimes breathe confusing speech; Man walks within these groves of symbols, each Of which regards him as a kindred thing.
~ Charles Baudelaire
She Speaks Of Love
~ Charles Bukowski
He that speaks seldom and opportunely, being as good as his word, is the only man they love," Wood explained. Character
~ Charles C. Mann
What you deposit in your heart is what will come forth. Out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks. What's abundantly in your heart will get in your mouth. What's abundantly in your mouth will get in your heart. You get it in your heart by saying it
~ Charles Capps
I let no corrupt communication proceed out of my mouth, but that which is good to edifying that it may minister grace to the hearer.
~ Charles Capps
He said, the tongue no man can tame. It is an unruly evil that's full of deadly poison. It will poison your body. It will poison your spirit. It will poison your life. OR, it will put you over in life, if used correctly. It will build life and health into spirit, soul, and body.
~ Charles Capps
Political correctness is tyranny with manners.
~ Charlton Heston
They purport to honor electoral politics, freedom of speech, the right to assembly, and the Constitution. But they so corrupt and manipulate the levers of power internally that democracy is extinguished. The Constitution remains in place but has been so radically reinterpreted by the courts and by the executive and legislative branches of government, all serving corporate power, as to be essentially nullified.
~ Chris Hedges
With a monologue, you can be unendingly elliptical.
~ Mike Birbiglia
The monologue is an interesting space for an actor.
~ Pratik Gandhi
Monologues are fun.
~ Adina Porter
I do not speak very often to the press. I just have it in my head. I do my talking out there on the field, which is the most important thing.
~ Carlos Tevez