Quotes About Speech

Holy shit. It is like his mouth is falling down the stairs.

Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.

In addition, the child with poor tactile awareness in his mouth, lips, tongue, and jaw may have a sensory-based motor problem called oral apraxia, which affects his ability to produce and sequence sounds necessary for speech.

She just feels so ingenuine in everything, every toast she gives is like, take your lips off his a—.

I can't forget that stupid, fucking hologram speech. THAT'S why I did dope.

But words are things, and a small drop of ink,       Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think;       'T is strange, the shortest letter which man uses Instead of speech, may form a lasting link       Of ages; to what straits old Time reduces Frail man, when paper — even a rag like this, Survives himself, his tomb, and all that's his.

Do not boast so proudly, or let arrogant words come out of your mouth, for the Lord is a God of knowledge, and actions are weighed by Him.

The ability to speak does not make you intelligent.

We must know words not as abstract grammatical and logical quantities, but as animated and social beings. Roots, inflections, word-book definitions, are products of the decomposition of speech, not speech itself. They are dead remains, stripped of their native attachments and functions, and hence it is that a living Danish scholar, himself a man of rare philological attainment and of keen linguistic perceptions, calls scholastic grammar 'the grave of language.

Las palabras son como flechas, Arianne. Una vez lanzadas no hay manera de hacerlas volver.

George R.R. Martin

Words are like arrows, Arianne. Once loosed, you cannot call them back.

Perhaps you should speak more softly to me, then. Monsters are dangerous beasts, and just now kings seem to be dying like flies.

When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say.

Words are wind, and the only good wind is that which fills our sails.

The King's Hand should have a hand," the Hand said "I will not have men speaking of the King's Stump

Guard your tongue before it digs your grave.

Mujer, rebuznas como un asno y hablas con su misma inteligencia. —¿Mujer? —Dejó escapar una risita—. ¿Acaso tratáis de insultarme?

Weigh every word before you speak it.

Words are wind, they cannot hurt you

Trust the man who hesitates in his speech and is quick and steady in action, but beware of long arguments and long beards.

Ours is the ability, the need, to gainsay or 'un-say' the world, to image and speak it otherwise. In that capacity in its biological and social evolution, may lie some of the clues to the question of the origins of human speech and the multiplicity of tongues. It is not, perhaps, 'a theory of information' that will serve us best in trying to clarify the nature of language, but a 'theory of misinformation'.

A canon is a guarded catalogue of that speech, music and art which houses inside us, which is irrevocably familiar to our homecomings. And this will include, if honestly arrived at and declared (even if solely to oneself), all manner of ephemera, trivial, and possibly mendacious matter…No manor woman need justify his personal anthology, his canonic welcomes. Love does not argue its necessities.

People make suggestions on what to say all the time. I'll give you an example I don't read what's handed to me. People say, 'Here, here's your speech, or here's an idea for a speech.' They're changed. Trust me.