Quotes About Speech

There are similarities between hot air and excrement, incidentally, which make hot air seem an especially suitable equivalent for bullshit. Just as hot air is speech that has been emptied of all informative content, so excrement is matter from which everything nutritive has been removed.

Last year, when 'Black Swan ' 'True Grit' and 'King's Speech' all grossed over $100 million, it gave studios and independent financiers the confidence to make daring movies and not do the same old you-know-what.

Be sparing of your words if you wish them to be powerful.

Who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious--is a genius or a hero.

He knows not how to speak who cannot be silent.

Wishes run over in loquacious impotence, will presses on with laconic energy.

Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately.

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

Indeed, tone or voice is what you get when, larynxlike, you breathe through structure.

He spoke slowly; I had a sense he was groping between words for the thread of his own thoughts.

Before I continue with the scholarly account of tribalography, I want to tell you a Choctaw story. My tribe's language has a mysterious prefix that, when combined with other words, represents a form of creation. It is nuk or nok, and it has to do with the power of speech, breath, and mind. Things with nok or nuk attached to them are so powerful they create. For instance, nukfokechi brings forth knowledge and inspiration. A teacher is a nukfoki, the beginning of action.

It's better to be silent than to be a fool.

It is, as you know, very, very rude and usually unnecessary to use profanity.

Violet stayed still as a statue. She hadn't been listening to the last speech of Count Olaf's, knowing it would be full of the usual self-congratulatory nonsense and despicable insults.

In general, shorter is better. If you can encapsulate your idea into a single captivating sentence, you're halfway home.

I am bound to accord you, in the name of free speech, the full right to shout, lie and write to your heart's content. But you are bound to grant me, in the name of freedom of association, the right to enter into, or withdraw from, association with people advocating this or that view. The party is a voluntary association, which would inevitably break up, first ideologically and then physically, if it did not cleanse itself of people advocating anti-party views.

Take away the right to say "f**" and you take away the right to say "f** the government."

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Man created words to free himself

It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.

Speech is silver but silence is golden.

The freedom of speech is meaningless without the freedom of attention, which is both its complement and prerequisite

A person can be completely right about something but still not have the right to say it.

I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.