Quotes About Speech

Any instrument whatever Would be out of tune that sought To combine and blend together The true feelings of the heart With the false words speech expresses.

Mal haya ocasión, mal haya, 155 sin espadas y con lenguas, que son las peores armas, pues una herida mejor se cura que una palabra!

A speech is poetry: cadence, rhythm, imagery, sweep! A speech reminds us that words, like children, have the power to make dance the dullest beanbag of a heart.

a speech about everything is a speech about nothing.

You must be able to say the sentences you write. And so they cannot be long and serpentine things that curl around clauses, caress subclauses, encompass extended metaphor, stop briefly for a whimsical digression and culminate, ultimately, in a long and rhythmic peroration that signals to your audience that you would not take it unkindly if they, at just about this moment, would interrupt you with vigorous and sustained applause.

a speech is shaped, ultimately, by the overwhelming desire that nothing bad happen, then nothing good will happen either. The speech will sound mealy-mouthed and nervous.

A great speech is literature.

Hubert Humphrey's wife is said to have advised him: "Darling, for a speech to be immortal it need not be interminable.

She'd just spent the last hours engaged in endless small talk. Now, when it mattered so much, she seemed to have no words to say, or even breath to speak them with. All her life she'd always had such trouble with words: finding them and losing them, hoarding them and wasting them.

Ik hoorde hoe flauw ik klonk. Als iemand die wel praat maar niets zegt.

He gave man speech, and speech created thought, which is the measure of the universe.

His lips in truth-entangling lines which smiled he lie his tongue disdained to speak.

His lips in truth-entangling lines which smiled the lie his tongue disdained to speak.

But I say to you that for every idle word men may speak, they will give account of it in the Day of Judgment. For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned." – MATTHEW 12:36-37

First they came for the verbs, and I said nothing because verbing weirds language. Then they arrival for the nouns, and I speech nothing because I no verbs.

When we speak, we speak for will!

Their haste pulls them out of the conversation, or they try internally to improve the situation, or they're preparing what their next speech will be when you shut up and it's their turn to take the stage.

adult language. Twang…heh, heh,

Then Lamech said to his wives: “Adah and Zillah, hear my voice; wives of Lamech, listen to my speech. For I have slain a man for wounding me, a young man for striking me.

Now the whole world had one language and a common form of speech.

Come, let Us go down and confuse their language, so that they will not understand one anotherís speech.”

“Please, Lord,” Moses replied, “I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor since You have spoken to Your servant, for I am slow of speech and tongue.”

And the LORD said to him, “Who gave man his mouth? Or who makes the mute or the deaf, the sighted or the blind? Is it not I, the LORD?

But in the LORDís presence Moses replied, “Since I am unskilled in speech, why would Pharaoh listen to me?”