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Quotes About Speech

I am an American. I love my country and have great hopes for it. It is for this reason that I speak candidly and sometimes critically about it. I have benefited greatly from the freedom that exists in my country, and for this, I am eternally grateful.
~ Johnny Depp
Hello Kitty will never speak.
~ Pico Iyer
I am a humble speaker, I speak very well.
~ Suhasini Maniratnam
There are endless consumer applications, but what excites me is how this can help people. A man who cannot speak communicates with sign language, but the average person doesn't know that language. SixthSense, if equipped with speakers, can recognize the gestures and form the words - it will speak for him.
~ Pranav Mistry
I never expected to join the ranks of commencement speakers, especially at my alma mater. I had a tough time there, left eagerly, and returned rarely.
~ Stephanie Ruhle
Silence is ever speaking; it is the perennial flow of language.
~ Ramana Maharshi
Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk.
~ Margaret Chase Smith
No man pleases by silence; many I please by speaking briefly.
~ Ausonius
When you hear someone from the very north of Scotland speaking, I think its nice, very musical and harmonious.
~ Sean Connery
I do some broadcasting and speaking as well.
~ Chuck Daly
You've got to guard against speaking more clearly than you think.
~ Howard Baker
I'm engaging my diaphragm as I'm speaking to you right now.
~ Lesley Garrett
The thinking is that we started evolving language not by speaking but by gesturing.
~ Frans de Waal
I know that at literary festivals I'm speaking mostly to middle-class women, who frequently vote in a way that is contrary to how I'd like them to vote.
~ Elliot Perlman
Speaking is physically difficult for me.
~ Gabrielle Giffords
Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
He that speaks much, is much mistaken.
~ Benjamin Franklin
When a president speaks, it's to multiple audiences.
~ Dana Perino
Movie dialogue is movie dialogue. It can sound real, but no one speaks that way.
~ Brian Helgeland
The great power the president has is that he is the most prominent person in the biggest media event on the planet. He has the attention of the nation and the world. When he speaks, everybody listens.
~ David Frum
When one English person speaks, another one immediately classifies him. No class system in the world is so audible, which is also why it is so pernicious and enduring.
~ Andrew Neil
If you come from a family like Gandhi family, people have high expectations. He needed to perform. I wish Rahul could have more attendance, participated more, and believed in democracy, in the parliamentary system. He speaks more outside, less in Parliament.
~ Anurag Thakur
I have a very specific definition of censorship. Censorship must be done by the government or it's not censorship.
~ Penn Jillette
See, Independence means freedom, for me, more specifically, freedom of speech which we seem to have lost.
~ Saswata Chatterjee