Quotes About Speech

The worst result of an habitual use of strong language is that when a special occasion really does arise, there is no way of marking it.

My apologies to everything that I can't be everywhere at once. My apologies to everyone that I can't be each woman and each man. I know I won't be justified as long as I live, since I myself stand in my own way. Don't bear me ill will, speech, that I borrow weighty words, then labor heavily so that they may seem light.

in daily speech, where we don't stop to consider every word, we all use phrases like the ordinary world, ordinary life, the ordinary course of events ... But in the language of poetry, where every word is weighed, nothing is usual or normal. Not a single stone and not a single cloud above it. Not a single day and not a single night after it. And above all, not a single existence, not anyone's existence in this world.

coprolalia.

A team of horses cannot overtake a word that has left the mouth.

Our swords shall play the orators for us.

Talkers never write. They go on talking." There

The moment of silence stretched out as thin as the content of a congressman's speech.

For every man's nature is concealed with many folds of disguise, and covered as it were with various veils. His brows, his eyes, and very often his countenance, are deceitful, and his speech is most commonly a lie.

Demons!' someone shouted in the common speech. 'Sorcerers! Blasphemers!' Han looked up in surprise to see the black-robed priest charging down the steps, swinging the broom over his head like a weapon, his face contorted with rage.

Anda tidak bisa menemui semua orang di seluruh dunia secara pribadi, tetapi Anda bisa menemui mereka lewat halaman-halaman buku. Anda adalah ahli pidato terbesar setelah William Jennings Bryan. Anda menawan hati jutaan pendengar di lapangan terbuka. Mengapa tidak berusaha mencapai jumlah pendengar yang lebih besar lagi?

Biarkan mereka melaporkan, Sukarno tidak hanya bicara dengan mulut, tapi juga bicara dengan meriam dan sudah siap perang.

A tender speech is combing through the willows. In a bare whisper, the elms lean. Something about the place conjures up the ancient past: the hound, the spear, the spinning wheel. There's pleasure to be had in history.

leaves out verbs and articles and pronouns and prepositions, in what those who know autism call "telegraphic speech.

They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.

Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, lessens the friction of social contacts. It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and bravely told, that human nature attains through words and speech the forbearance, the nobility, the romance, the idealism, that -- being what it is -- it falls so short of in fact and in deed.

Saying meaningless words is my great freedom.

às vezes não se tem o que escrever mesmo quando se tem o que falar.

La palabra es mi dominio sobre el mundo

All living is listening for a throat to open-- The length of its silence shaping lives. When he opened his mouth to speak, his speech was what was written in the silence, the length of the silence becoming a living.

The heat compounded, and ugliness settled its cloud over us, profound as human speech, although by then we were not speaking.

We do not put value on the words that we speak if we cannot perform the words that we unleash.

The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.

If I no longer know that my redeemer liveth, I know that he speaketh not like Tony Blair.