Quotes About Speech

Seu Tomás da bolandeira falava bem, estragava os olhos em cima de jornais e livros, mas não sabia mandar: pedia. Esquisitice um homem remediado ser cortês. Até o povo censurava aquelas maneiras. Mas todos obedeciam a ele. Ah! Quem disse que não obedeciam?

I never would have believed it, the way Hunter's rousing people up. He's talking like some kind of hostile fascist, and yet they're loving it.

Metaphor is one of a group of problem-solving medicines known as figures of speech which are normally used to treat literal thinking and other diseases.

To talk without thinking is to shoot without aiming.

Before I speak, I have something important to say.

You know you haven't stopped talking since I came here? You must have been vaccinated with a phonograph needle.

When the patient began speaking, Robert continued, he sounded unlike any person I have ever met before. Sure, his actions signaled that he was crazy, but his presence… Jessica, his presence was like what I imagine it would be to be close to a holy person or a spiritual master. I mean, that is really the only conclusion I can come to. And the holy guy tried to kill himself? Come on Robert. That just sounds ridiculous.

La palabra asusta al poder.

Speak only that which will bring you honor.

Dictatorship means shut up, democracy means keep talking!

Really, it is unfair to say that English spelling is not an accurate rendering of speech. It is – it's only that it renders the speech of the 16th century.

fluent speech, there are no real spaces between words, so when two words frequently appear together they can easily fuse into one.

According to some researchers, hominids prior to Homo sapiens could not, for instance, produce the vowel i {ee}. But ultimately, this does not say very much, since by all accounts, et es perfectle pesseble to have a thoroughle respectable language wethout the vowel i.

When men give up saying what is charming," Oscar answered, "they give up thinking what is charming. I hope I'll never do that.

Tenemos entonces un discurso oficial de larga sombra: una tradición revolucionaria, un presente progresista, un futuro de revolución permanente.

I would touch its walls with my fingers and its ceilings with my looks, I would invoke the powers of writing, I would bathe my soul in the rivers of unknown thoughts that genius unrolls when surrounded by the song of all the books its heart receives the marvelous measures of its own speech...

Knowledge of speech, but not of silence; Knowledge of words, and ignorance of the Word. All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance, All our ignorance brings us nearer to death, But nearness to death no nearer to GOD.

Here we see the word brain occurring for the first time in human speech, as far as it is known to us; and in discussing injuries affecting the brain, we note the surgeon's effort to delimit his terms as he selects for specialization a series of common and current words to designate three degrees of injury to the skull indicated in modern surgery by the terms fracture, compound fracture, and compound comminuted fracture, all of which the ancient commentator carefully explains.

Careless words you can't have back. Have a way of leaving a bitter taste of your tongue.

Careless words have a way of leaving a bitter taste on your tongue.

I may disapprove of what you say, but I will defend your right to say it.

Sometimes I forget how country my accent is... Until I hear a recording of myself and I literally sound like cornbread.

Society is better off with me keeping my mouth shut.

A form of speech: the lesser for the greater.