Quotes About Speech

Having to say 'so and so can't be with us tonight, but I would like to accept this murder charge on his behalf' would have been rather anticlimactic.

Their perfect English accents. As if serving all their vowels on a fine set of tongs.

So ran the speech. Burdened and sick at heart, He feigned hope in his look, and inwardly Contained his anguish. […] Aeneas, more than any, secretly Mourned for them all

Yet these roaring waters, said Neville, upon which we build our crazy platforms are more stable than the wild, the weak and inconsequent cries that we utter when, trying to speak, we rise; when we reason and jerk out these false sayings, 'I am this; I am that!' Speech is false.

But Lord! once one began mouthing words aloud, how silly they sounded!

That current flows fast and furious. It issues in a spate of words from the loudspeakers and the politicians. Every day they tell us that we are a free people, fighting to defend freedom.

I talk in a daze, I walk in a maze I cannot get out, said the starling

The organs concerned in the production of English speech sounds are the larynx, the velum, the lips, the tongue (that punchinello in the troupe), and, last but not least, the lower jaw; mainly upon its overenergetic and somewhat ruminant motion did Pnin rely when translating in class passages in the Russian grammar or some poem by Pushkin. If his Russian was music, his English was murder.

I talk in a daze, I walk in a maze.

Je suis saine de corps, et absolument obscène dans mes pensées, ma parole, mes actes.

He who knows does not speak. He who speaks does not know.

I gave a funny speech at my wife's birthday party, and I'm thinking, 'Hey, I've still got it.'

Don't utilize utilize. Use use.

Larry Kramer's speech is Jewish in the devotion it displays to the messianic conviction that the truth liberates if its precepts are entirely engaged with, and lived.

Freedom of speech gives us all the opportunity to express our thoughts and react to them; but does this " freedom" give "big brother", the opportunity to dictate our way of life???

Libri faciunt labia, maese Zacarius, libri faciunt labia. Lo cual, en lengua vulgar, significa que 'la lectura perfecciona la elocuencia'.

El aire es una biblioteca y registro de todas las vidas vividas, de todas las frases dichas, de todas las palabras que aún reverberan.

The ship passed over Nuremberg, where fringe politician Adolf Hitler, whose Nazi Party had been trounced in the 1928 elections, had just delivered a speech touting selective infanticide.

How much time do I get in exchange for that rose?" For the rose, a short engagement. For the speech, you get a lifetime." I can live with that," he said, and kissed her.

Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.

Persuasion hung upon his lips.

Do no sinful action, speak no angry word; ye belong to Jesus, children of the Lord.

As he began to speak, her cheeks went hot, as if she'd stepped into summer sun.

It is when you are angry that you must watch how you talk.