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Quotes About Speech

Money talks, bullshit walks.
~ Stephen King
Speech doesn't corrupt. Money corrupts, and money isn't speech.
~ Russ Feingold
Democrats always were a cheap lot. They never had much money to operate on.... They would rather make a speech than a dollar. They cultivate their voice instead of their finances.
~ Will Rogers
If money is free speech, the big interests are sitting in front with megaphones and the average citizens are sitting in the back.
~ John McCain
That money talks, I'll not deny, I heard it once: it said, 'goodbye
~ Richard Armour
When will money not come to one? It is when he speaks ill of others and scandalizes. Money will come to the one who has purity of mind, body and speech.
~ Dada Bhagwan
Money talks, I record.
~ Toba Beta
When money speaks the truth is silent.
~ Russian proverb
Good morning, people of the U.N.
~ Muammar al-Gaddafi
Speech is the mother, not the handmaid, of thought.
~ Karl Kraus
To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
~ Ben Jonson
There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
~ Dale Carnegie
A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
~ Heinrich Heine
The words you speak reveal the heart you have.
~ Todd Stocker
The movie people would have nothing to do with me until they heard me speak in a Broadway play, then they all wanted to sign me for the silent movies.
~ W. C. Fields
Music is the inarticulate speech of the heart, which cannot be compressed into words, because it is infinite.
~ Richard Wagner
Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.
~ Thomas Carlyle
One whom the music of his own vain tongue doth ravish like enchanting harmony.
~ William Shakespeare
I suspect that music has qualities both of speech and writing - partly built in, partly individually constructed - and this goes on all through one's life.
~ Oliver Sacks
Music has been called the speech of the angels; I will go farther and call it the speech of God Himself.
~ Charles Kingsley
I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity.
~ Rudyard Kipling
You can tell the nature of the man by the words he chooses.
~ Edwin Louis Cole
It is quite unlawful to demand, defend, or to grant unconditional freedom of thought, or speech, of writing or worship, as if these were so many rights given by nature to man.
~ Pope Leo XIII
Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.
~ Alfred North Whitehead