Quotes About Speech

Once, in the summer of 1995, Adams gave a speech at a rally in Belfast. He looked like a politician, in a crisp summer suit, consulting his cue cards. But during a pause in his prepared remarks, someone in the crowd shouted, "Bring back the IRA!" As the audience cheered, Adams chuckled and smiled. Then he leaned into the microphone and said, "They haven't gone away, you know.

She taught me I should never do anything in private I did not want talked about in public, and cautioned me not to talk in my sleep.

Names are the shape of the world, and a man who can speak them is on the road to power

Los nombres dan forma al mundo, y un hombre que puede pronunciarlos va camino del poder.

Para parecer inteligente tienes que saber cerrar la boca cuando conviene.

She taught me I should never do anything in private that I didn't want talked about in public, and cautioned me to not talk in my sleep.

Sometimes my mouth just starts talking and it takes my mind a little bit to catch up.

Vowels are the most illuminated letters in the alphabet. Vowels are the colors and souls of poetry and speech. (1976 Penthouse interview)

I never knew whether his speedy speech patterns reflected amphetamine use or an amphetamine mind. He would often lead me up blind alleys or through an endless labyrinth of incomprehensible logic. I felt like Alice with the Mad Hatter, negotiating jokes without punch lines, and having to retrace my steps on the chessboard floor back to the logic of my own peculiar universe.

when a man's only assets are the brain in his head and the tongue in his mouth, he has to think carefully before he decides to open that mouth and speak.

Response: The First Amendment protects a speaker's right to speak and the listeners' right to listen. Hecklers who shout down speakers or disrupt proceedings illegally violate the rights of everyone present who came to both speak and to be spoken to.

Money talks, bullshit walks Ã¢â'¬Â¦ Pecunia sermo, somnium ambulo.

When we speak, it must be with the realization that God has given our words significance. He has ordained for them to be important.

God is at work, taking people who instinctively speak for themselves and transforming them into people who effectively speak for him.

can you tell when a politician is lying? When he moves his lips!

Where there is official censorship it is a sign that speech is serious. Where there is none, it is pretty certain that the official spokesmen have all the loud-speakers.

Better the fool who remains silent than the fool who who speaks and demonstrates his foolishness. Better still, the one who listens carefully.

It is better to let people think you are a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.

Why do they hate us?" he asked rhetorically in an address to the Congress. "They hate what they see right here in this chamber: a democratically elected government. Their leaders are self-appointed. They hate our freedoms: our freedom of religion, our freedom of speech, our freedom to vote and assemble and disagree with each other."13

Take eloquence and wring its neck.

Never separate the life you lead from the words you speak.

Never separate the life you live from the words you speak.

independence, coordinated movement, language, and will.

Hamilton, [Melancton Smith] said, spoke 'frequently, very long, and very vehemently,' and 'like publius,' had 'much to say' that was 'not very applicable to the subject' at hand.