Quotes About Speech

It's hard for me to lie, I'd stumble with my words if I tried to lie.

Charlie Crist has gone through his entire political life with one stump speech - his grandfather polishing shoes.

People say the most stupid things on the spur of the moment that they then have to retract.

I am against censorship. I don't think there is anything more stupid than censorship.

People are always going to say stupid things, and you're always going to be able to make jokes about that, but it should be the last thing you add in, because it's the easiest thing.

Anybody that you put on TV five hours a week is at some point is going to say something stupid.

My speech impediment wasn't a stutter but it was dropping several letters that I just could not say for several years, most specifically the 'r' sound.

I had a bad stutter when I was really young. I couldn't get a sentence out. Like, 'D-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-ad.' And that turned into a mumble.

It has always seemed a cruel joke to me that the very word 'stutter' is difficult for many stutterers to pronounce. It is onomatopoeic, an imitation of the halting, repetitive sound made by people with this speech dysfunction.

I will always have a stutter.

Well, no, you can prepare it all you want, but I'd still stutter.

When I'm nervous, I stutter, and I had to keep stopping and starting.

Sometimes, when I'm trying to get my thoughts out, and I'm thinking too fast, I stutter.

You can hear me starting to stutter and slur my words.

When I was younger, I had a terrible problem with stuttering.

Because I talk too fast and I start stuffing up my words, I start mumbling and stuttering. I just have to remember to slow down.

I have struggled all my life with my stuttering. Not to mention all my other speech impediments. I think I have every language disorder known to speech pathologists.

But if you put a script up in front of me to read, or a cue card, I couldn't do it without stuttering.

Within speech, words are subject to a kind of relation that is independent of the first and based on their linkage: these are syntagmatic relations, of which I have spoken.

The President then proceeded to read his Emancipation Proclamation, making remarks on the several parts as he went on, and showing that he had fully considered the whole subject, in all lights under which it had been presented to him.

We sometimes forget that human invention can also be a subject of human invention: that might seem a modern notion, or a postmodern one, but novelists have taken time - sometimes time out from their realist fixations - to source and satirise the speech and power we rely on.

I actually spoke at the christening of the USS Minnesota - it was a really, very cool submarine in Norfolk.

A knife wound heals; a wound caused by words does not

He bites his tongue who speaks in haste.