Quotes About Speech

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Beware of the anger of the mouth. Master your words. Let them serve truth.

It is the privilege and the labor of the apprentice of creation to come with his imagination into the unimaginable, and with his speech into the unspeakable.

Kindness is not a word much at home in current political and religious speech, but it is a rich word and a necessary one.

To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.

And, after speech, it provided a readier instrument for the dissemination of nonsense than the world has ever known until our time.

Obey even the unjust law, answers Spinoza, if reasonable protest and discussions are allowed and speech is left free to secure a peaceful change.

The more a government strives to curtail freedom of speech, the more obstinately is it resisted; not indeed by the avaricious, . . . but by those whom good education, sound morality, and virtue have rendered more free.

I do not agree with a word that you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

And he was not old enough to talk and say nothing at the same time.

when she spoke even now, after forty years, among the slurred consonants and the flat vowels of the land where her life had been cast, New England talked as plainly as it did in the speech of her kin who had never left New Hampshire

Learn us all the refinement and education that there's a better use for the mouth than running private opinions through it.

A gigantic crowd of one million persons was gathered on the Maifeld to hear the two fascist dictators speak their pieces. Mussolini, orating in German, was carried away by the deafening applause—and by Hitler's flattering words.

On May 17, 1933, before the Reichstag, Hitler delivered his "Peace Speech," one of the greatest of his career, a masterpiece of deceptive propaganda that deeply moved the German people and unified them behind him and which made a profound and favorable impression on the outside world.

A filthy mouth will not utter decent language.

Everyone breathes in air, but it's a wise person who knows when to use that air to speak and when to exhale in silence.

lips, excused from their color, had formed words relieved of their sound.

There's only one thing to say to the censors: Shut up.

But take care, or I may cut those tongues from thy throats for thee." Ouch, thought Billy. That'll hurt.

I'm kind of relieved I don't have to say anything on TV about tragedies anymore. ~ JON STEWART

When you have something good to say, say it. When you have something ill to say, say something else.

Developmental psychologists now talk about the cross-modality of language, meaning that language is expressed in various ways. Instead of the image of a brain issuing language to a mouth, from which it emerges as imperfect speech, think, rather, of language emerging in the child as an expression of its entire body, articulating both limbs and mouth at the same time.

It takes at least ten years for a child to learn to coordinate lips, tongue, mouth, and breath with the exacting fine motor control that adults use when they talk.

What's amazing about speech is that when you're on the receiving end, listening to the noise that comes out of people's mouths, you instantaneously hear meaningful language. Yet speech is just sound, a semicontinuous buzz that fluctuates rapidly and regularly. Frequencies rise and fall, harmonics within the frequencies change their relationships to one another, air turbulence increases and dies away. It gets loud, and then it gets quiet.