Quotes About Speech

In Mozambique, the story goes, monkeys do not talk, because they know if they utter even a single word some man will come and put them to work.

Anger is the feeling that makes your mouth work faster than your mind.

Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.

All work and no plagiarism makes a dull speech.

I think we do have our true, original stories that work. I can tell you that 'The King's Speech,' which we did, became a worldwide smash because people loved the personal story.

The FA have to be careful in telling you what you can and cannot say. If they are telling you that you cannot tell the truth, then they are on sticky ground.

What is occurring on college campuses is about power and control - speech is impeded as a last resort, used when people fail to self-censor in response to a threat of crippling stigma and the destruction of their capacity to earn.

I'm not short, so I can make a speech and drive the stock down and cover the stock. That's not what I do.

I always wanted to be an actor, but with a speech impediment it's kind of tough. I decided to roll the dice and take an acting class, which was very, very nerve-wracking... my stomach would just be in knots.

We have never done anything to stop freedom of expression or freedom of press.

Just because you have a mouth and nobody is stopping you, you can't say whatever you want.

It's a daily miracle to see a child grow and develop all the senses and language and speech and faculties, and they're so much fun and they're so delightful and they're so innocent. It just stops your heart every time; I can't get enough of it.

I can not stay at the place when a stranger starts talking to me. I will try to cut the speech as quick as possible and move away. I had to break this inhibition before becoming an actor.

All writing is a sin against speechlessness,' Beckett had said. He would have stopped, I thought, if he could.

Speaking in Irish he explained that while he would like to deliver his speech in Irish he did not have enough command of the tongue to express himself properly and therefore he was going to continue in English. However when he spoke in English it was to begin by saying: 'Some of the members do not know Irish, I think, and consequently what I shall say will be in English.

Even the new president, Jimmy Carter, invoked Bob Dylan lyrics during his inauguration speech in early 1977.

I think the enemy is self-censorship. In a free society the biggest danger is that you're afraid to the point where you censor yourself.

The greatest lesson was this: "What they do to us we cannot do to them," said Toomas Hendrik Ilves, the president of Estonia from 2006 to 2016. "Liberal democracies with a free press and free and fair elections are at an asymmetric disadvantage.… The tools of their democratic and free speech can be used against them.

The story of Daniel Lord and the Legion of Decency goes to a central contention of this book: in the United States, it is industrial structure that determines the limits of free speech.

We sometimes treat the information industries as if they were like any other enterprise, but they are not, for their structure determines who gets heard. It is in this context that Fred Friendly, onetime CBS News president, made it clear that before any question of free speech comes the question of "who controls the master switch.

Indiana, where truth was no defense, and the First Amendment had no force of law.

It is a remarkable phenomenon that children can learn to speak without ever being consciously aware of the sophisticated grammar they are using.

How the word is spoken can dramatically impact the power of the spoken word.

An ambassador seeks to speak the right thing in the best way.