Quotes About Speech

In my first 15 or 20 years of authorship, I was almost never asked to give a speech or an interview. The written work was supposed to speak for itself, and to sell itself, sometimes even without the author's photograph on the back flap.

I thought 'The King's Speech' was great.

The perfection of style consists in the use of the exact speech necessary to convey the sense in the fewest words consistent with perspicuity, at the same time having regard to appropriateness and harmony of expression. Its greater excellencies are directness, accuracy, appropriateness and perspicuity.

We need to defend absolutely the freedom of speech.

In commendably seeking to protect freedom of speech, we must not lower our defences against the evil of racial and religious intolerance.

While my speech is getting better every day, throughout my recovery, I have been able to sing to some extent.

It's much easier to read the stories that have a lot of dialogue; of course, they flow much more easily into speech.

I feel like freedom of speech is one of the great things in this country and the freedom to do what you feel is right.

All writers start out mimicking other writers. I've never relinquished that. I have a good ear for speech and writing patterns.

I have worked on open Internet, speech, and entrepreneurship issues for years.

Free speech is one of the founding principles of our republic.

I once attended an advertising conference held at the Greenbrier Hotel in 1968. The dean of the original Mad Men, the great David Ogilvy, was the keynote speaker. The subject of his speech was the new creative revolution in advertising.

The FTC doesn't regulate political speech.

I can give a speech, and I can do a rally, and I do them, but that's not what I like to do.

I was about 13 or 14 when I heard Malcolm X's speech 'Message to the Grass Roots.'

Readers in general are not fond of dialect, and I don't blame them. I've read books myself that I've had to put down because sounding out every speech gave me a headache.

Since 2009, 140 Tibetans have immolated themselves to protest Chinese policies that limit their freedom of movement, speech and religion, especially their right to venerate the Dalai Lama.

Barack Obama's name will be the one on the peace prize, but his speech and his manner could become a gift for generations to come.

We have to go see Bill Gates and a lot of different people that really understand what's happening. We have to talk to them, maybe in certain areas, closing that Internet up in some way. Somebody will say, 'Oh, freedom of speech, freedom of speech.' These are foolish people. We have a lot of foolish people.

If anything is scary about my writing, it's that it's the product of a very particular vision and doesn't reference common speech that heavily. By 'common speech,' I don't mean language as much as an agreed-on way of seeing, or a shorthand.

We are living in an open world. There is a freedom of speech and, clearly, freedom of speculation.

I would be concerned if any speech to Congress related any information that's new to the president of the United States.

Fidel Castro had to sit there while he was given a speech on democracy, something the Cuban people have not been able to hear for 43 years.

Traditionally, you support your nominee for president, and so when I went to Cleveland, I gave a strong speech about Hillary Clinton and her devastating foreign policy, but also in the support of the nominee. I think that's an obligation that we have to support the nominee.