Quotes About Speech

Alliteration seems to offend people.

You speak with warm marbles in your mouth. You have an Indian accent

Obviamente este incidente me afectó, y recuerdo que durante el breve momento de poder de Hugo Chávez, tomó el mando de los medios y todos los canales de televisión retransmitieron su discurso a todo el país.

White free speech and white creative freedom have been founded on the constraint of others, and are not natural rights.

they read Hurston not only for the spiritual kinship inherent in such relations but because she used black vernacular speech and rituals, in ways Subtle and various, to chart the coming to consciousness of black women, so glaringly absent in other black fiction.

They became lords of sounds and lesser things. They passed nations through their mouths. They sat in judgment.

Ah never married her for nothin' lak dat. She's uh woman and her place is in de home." Janie made her face laugh after a short pause, but it wasn't too easy. She had never thought of making a speech, and didn't know if she cared to make one at all. It must have been the way Joe spoke out without giving her a chance to say anything one way or another that took the bloom off of things. But anyway, she went down the road behind him that night feeling cold.

It was just a handle to wind up the tongue with.

These two "speech communities," as it were, are Hurston's great sources of inspiration not only in her novels but also in her autobiography.

I would pay good money for a British accent.

I never really had a strong accent.

My accent really comes out when I'm speaking in public or when I'm passionate about something.

I'm not conscious of having changed my accent.

If you have an adversary, you don't have to respect what they're saying, but respect their right to say it.

I'm a linguist. I study how people talk to each other and how the ways we talk affect our relationships.

I'm still working on my speech, but I do a lot of voice-acting work. My agent is the best. I make a good living.

The way I work, I didn't hold the accent all day.

We haven't given our brain the ability to actually analyze something clearly and appropriately before we speak and before we take action.

I'm not very articulate.

O amor toma a cor do século a que pertence. Em 1822 é doutrinário. Em lugar de se provar o amor como antigamente por meio de factos, discute-se, transformam-no num discurso de tribuna.

A quotation in a speech, article, or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.

Nonetheless, like all truly strong people, his speech was soft, his manners simple, and he was naturally kind.

Journalism may say or suppose anything, and our dignity forbids us even to reply.

A thoroughbred," "a pure pedigree," these figures of speech have replaced the "heavenly angel" and Ossianic nomenclature; the old mythology of love is extinct, doomed to perish by modern dandyism.