Quotes About Speech

It's not a mental complaint-it's a physical thing, like it's physically hard to open your mouth and make the words come out. ... you stumble on them as they gather behind your lower lip. So you just keep quiet.

And because no one ever understands a word I say—my voice is too fast, quiet, and mumbly—I started taking weekly private lessons in speech and singing.

However, as Franklin warned in the New-England Courant in 1722, "in those wretched countries where a man cannot call his tongue his own, he can scarce call anything else his own. Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation, must begin by subduing the freeness of speech."9

In fact, in the Rig Veda there is one hymn that is an invocation of V?c, speech itself. Here are two of its verses:

Saying certain letters without moving my mouth is tough... like B, P and W, you know.

I need to control my mouth.

His mouth is for export and his head has no entrance.

Thought is made in the mouth.

I was always getting caught for running my mouth. Which is why it was the best thing for me to get into acting so I could express myself.

I'm always running my mouth off and getting myself in trouble, so I'm trying to do it less.

It's what you do every time. You isolate what you know, and you create a mental image of what you're doing. Every time you speak you don't have to think about it. Words come out of your mouth based on what you know. That's the same job every time.

You can always read a person by what comes out his mouth.

Sometimes, my mouth can get the better of me.

I used to always run off at the mouth and talk about people. I just didn't know that it would make a living for me.

And my mouth is not a sewer, although some people may think it is.

I have a mouth and I'm not afraid to use it.

Everything that goes into my mouth seems to make me fat, everything that comes out of my mouth embarrasses me.

I've always believed the words that came out of my mouth were most comfortable when I'd written them.

I believe in manifesting the words that are coming out of my mouth. I'm very careful with what I say because the intention is then out in the universe.

I've learned in my life that I have to focus on the things that I can control and what I can control is what comes out of my mouth and how I respond to people.

Yeah, I shoot my mouth off. There's a huge difference between writing and thinking.

At the end of the day, all I can do is control me and what comes out of my mouth.

Trump might have a mouth like an open sewer, but at least he says something.

I am not going to be a mouthpiece for language that I detest.