Quotes About Speech

ATHEIST is really a thoroughly honest, unambiguous term, it admits of no paltering and no evasion, and the need of the world, now as ever, is for clear-cut issues and unambiguous speech.

He had a particularly deliberate way of speaking that made him sound as if he had thought up his sentences several minutes ago and was only now getting around to saying them.

The only thing is that Whispers had the worst breath known to man or beast. He suffered from halitosis so bad you'd think he was growing garlic in his belly. No amount of chewing gum or mints did him any good. So he was only allowed to whisper when he talked to people.

The less men think, the more they talk.

Says it with his head on!" Mr. Stryver remarked upon the peculiarity as if it would have been infinitely less remarkable if he had said it with his head off.

Mr. Boffin, as if he were about to have his portrait painted, or to be electrified, or to be made a Freemason, or to be placed at any other solitary disadvantage, ascended the rostrum prepared for him.

It is nothing to say that he hadn't a word to throw at a dog. He couldn't have thrown a word at a mad dog. He might have offered him one gently, or half a one, or a fragment of one; for he spoke as slowly as he walked; but he wouldn't have been rude to him, and he couldn't have been quick with him, for any earthly consideration.

are," the guard called to the voice in the mist, "because, if I should make a mistake, it could never be set right in your lifetime. Gentleman of the name of Lorry answer straight." "What is the matter?" asked the passenger, then, with mildly quavering speech. "Who wants me? Is it Jerry?" ("I don't like Jerry's voice, if

For gracious sake, don't talk about Liberty; we have quite enough of that.

A word in earnest is as good as a speech

He couldn't finish the name. The final letter swelled in his throat, to the size of the whole alphabet.

We delude ourselves when we suppose than the main impact of speech lies in the words (as opposed to the voice), just as we delude ourselves when we cite logical reasons, which are actually rationalizations or justifications, for our decisions.

aun cuando hagamos silencio, sutilmente estamos diciendo algo.

De una renovación de nuestro entendimiento proviene un cambio en nuestra forma de hablar y nuestra conducta. A medida que nuestra forma de hablar y nuestra conducta se renuevan, nuestras relaciones con los demás también se renuevan. A medida que nuestras relaciones se renuevan, nuestro mundo inmediato se renueva. Todo comienza en la mente, con aquello en lo que decidimos pensar y meditar.

The Lords Temporal say nothing, the Lords Spiritual have nothing to say, and the House of Commons has nothing to say and says it.

A proverb is to speech what salt is to food.

I never said all that [$#*t].

But further, in order to embellish it with flowers of language and gems of thought, it is not necessary for this ornamentation to be spread evenly over the entire speech, but it must be so distributed that there may be brilliant jewels placed at various points as a sort of decoration.

"Where little is done, little is said," observed Sheikh Hassan, "and Silence is the mother of Truth..."

We must have reasons for speech but we need none for silence.

As the truest society approaches always nearer to solitude, so the most excellent speech finally falls into Silence.

The orator... is... most eloquent when most silent.

One of them, in 1925 the newly elected Finance Minister, Anatole de Monzie, when making his inaugural speech forthrightly declared: "Gentlemen, the treasury is empty." It was a mistake. De Monzie survived this spark of lucidity by only a few hours; that afternoon he found himself removed from office.

Of ex-President Eisenhower at the Republican convention of 1964 Reading a speech with his usual sense of discovery.