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Quotes About Speech

The words yesterday and tomorrow might have been excised from their vocabulary: for yesterday had entertained nothing that was worth today's speech, and tomorrow could promise no change from today.
~ Michael McDowell
Academic freedom: It's great, as long as you don't use it."
~ Unknown
Karate has helped me to control my temper, but my tongue still needs a handbrake or a dead man's switch.
~ Michael Robotham
We don't learn to talk, as most think. We start to talk when our brain is good and ready to say something.
~ Michael S. Gazzaniga
Defend freedom of speech against radical Islam. Americans should feel as secure in their right to criticize Islam as they are in their right to criticize any other religion.
~ Michael Savage
Here words can kill - literally.
~ Michael Scott
George W. Bush, on the dais, supplied what seemed likely to become the historic footnote to the Trump address: "That's some weird shit.
~ Michael Wolff
When he came off the podium after delivering his address, he kept repeating, "Nobody will forget this speech." George W. Bush, on the dais, supplied what seemed likely to become the historic footnote to the Trump address: "That's some weird shit.
~ Michael Wolff
Trump loved to hear complain about the CIA and the haplessness of American spies, had been told by his friends that it had not been a good idea to take $45,000 from the Russians for a speech. "Well, it would only be a problem if we won," he assured them, knowing that it would therefore not be a problem.
~ Michael Wolff
his view, that he should say nothing—it was not his fault or responsibility, and he certainly didn't want to give a speech that might imply it was;
~ Michael Wolff
Trump's wounded feelings—his sense of being shunned and unloved on the very day he became president—helped send that message. When he came off the podium after delivering his address, he kept repeating, "Nobody will forget this speech." George W. Bush, on the dais, supplied what seemed likely to become the historic footnote to the Trump address: "That's some weird shit.
~ Michael Wolff
And that evening, the president traveled to West Virginia to deliver a speech before the Boy Scouts of America. Once more, his speech was totally at odds with time, place, and good sense. It prompted an immediate apology from the Boy Scouts to its members, their parents, and the country at large.
~ Michael Wolff
Nu avea un discurs de psihiatru tipic, în fine, era suportabil. Îmi amintesc c?-mi sugera s? m? "eliberez de leg?turi"; p?rea mai curând o tr?nc?neal? budist?. Ce s? eliberez? Toat? fiinÈ›a mea era o leg?tur?.
~ Michel Houellebecq
Without defamation, there is no longer slander,
~ Unknown
If that was a proposal, you really need to work on your delivery.
~ Unknown
Psalms 141:3: Set a guard over my mouth, O Lord; keep watch over the door of my lips.
~ Unknown
When you let money speak for you, it drowns out anything else you meant to say.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
Mama does everything for the baby, who responds by saying Dada first.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
Hablen, sigan hablando —dijo Carvajal después de un largo silencio—; sigan hablando! —¡Hablemos de la libertad! —murmuró el estudiante. —¡Vaya una ocurrencia! —se le interpuso el sacristán—; ¡hablar de la libertad en la cárcel! —Y los enfermos ¿no hablan de la salud en el hospital?...
~ Unknown
Little said is soon amended.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
A closed mouth catches no flies.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
Little said is soonest mended.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
Não tenho medo das palavras, mas calo-me.
~ Miguel de Unamuno
If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.
~ Miguel de Unamuno