Quotes About Speech

A lot of the stuff that I say doesn't even make TV because it gets cut out. So if you're at the live events you get to hear what I have to say, but if you're watching on TV, you're only getting about 50% of it.

Cussing ain't for everybody.

I won't ever got to a place that's racist, and I will tell everybody else not to and I'll speak against them. But it should be their right to be racist.

How come adults got away with saying things that would sound rude coming out of her mouth?

There is nothing more wonderful than freedom of speech.

It is truly jarring to Japanese ears to hear the most sacred words, the most secret heart experiences, thrown out in promiscuous audiences. "Dost thou feel the soil of thy soul stirred with tender thoughts? It is time for seeds to sprout. Disturb it not with speech; but let it work alone in quietness and secrecy," writes a young samurai in his diary.

Only Fools made the sound

Claude E. Shannon, who first enunciated the theory, "was able to define channel capacity for continuous signals such as music and speech.

The spoken word vanished with the wind. Likewise, the unrecorded life disappears as if it never existed.

Words spoken, you are a slave to; those not said, you are the master of.

A diplomat must always think twice before he says nothing.

A silent mouth is sweet to hear.

Everyone is wise until he speaks.

A person may paint or talk about painting but he cannot do both at the same time.

Speech, originally, was the device whereby Man learned, imperfectly, to transmit the thoughts and emotions of his mind. By setting up arbitrary sounds and combinations of sounds to represent certain mental nuances, he developed a method of communication--but one which in its clumsiness and thick-thumbed inadequacy degenerated all the delicacy of the mind into gross and gutteral signaling.

Fools blow air out of their mouths as often as their bums, and either way it causes a stink and comes to nothing.

It is up-hill work to oppose our prejudices; we have a democracy, but freedom of speech is enjoyed only by the most foolish members of this Assembly and by the comic poets in the theatre. As, however, I am not here to court your votes, I shall say what I think...

In days of doubt, in days of sad brooding on my country's fate, thou alone art my rod and my staff—mighty, true, free Russian speech! But for thee, how not to fall into despair, seeing all that happens at home? Yet who can think that such a tongue is not given to a great people?

Dodju tako ponekad vremena, kada pamet zacuti, budala progovori, a fukara se obogati.

Communism is the very opposite of liberalism. Liberalism means increased rights for the citizen; a curb on the powers of the central government; freedom of speech, religion, and the press.

Welcome to a new year at Hogwarts! Before we begin our banquet, I would like to say a few words. And here they are: Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!

Is your speaking an improvement on silence?

Fair speech may hide a foul heart.

There is a way to speak the truth in love, treating people with respect. But if being liked is the goal of the preacher, the speech is more likely to be grandstanding than world-shaking.