Quotes About Speech

That money talks I'll not deny, I heard it once: It said, "Goodbye."

That money talks, I'll not deny, I heard it once: it said, 'goodbye

A good speech should be like a woman's skirt: long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest.

Puede que una palabra correcta sea eficaz, pero ninguna palabra es tan eficaz como una pausa en el momento adecuado".

Lincoln learned to summon the passions, but he never addressed his audience as sweethearts.

As with almost every long oration, there were loose ends.

Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason.

Eloquence is vehement simplicity.

He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.

Let me silent be, For silence is the speech of love, The music of the spheres above.

Words never fail. We hear them, we read them; they enter into the mind and become part of us for as long as we shall live. Who speaks reason to his fellowmen bestows it upon them. Who mouths inanity disorders thought for all who listen. There must be some minimum allowable dose of inanity beyond which the mind cannot remain reasonable. Irrationality, like buried chemical waste, sooner or later must seep into all the tissues of thought.

When the power of saying is small, the power of thinking is small.

I, too, had nothing to say, and I tried to say it as well as I could. What harm could so small a thing as saying nothing do to anyone?

The surface of the tongue turns brilliant red and then sloughs off, and is swallowed or spat out. It is said to be extraordinarily painful to lose the surface of one's tongue.

Von Neumann at six joked with his father in classical Greek and had a truly photographic memory: he could recite entire chapters of books he had read.392 Edward Teller, like Einstein before him, was exceptionally late in learning—or choosing—to talk.393 His grandfather warned his parents that he might be retarded, but when Teller finally spoke, at three, he spoke in complete sentences.

Paraphrasing one of the king's speeches before Parliament in his stark summary of the consequences, Standish concluded: "And so it may be conceived, no wood, no kingdom.

Men like to recall, in later years, what they said at some important or possibly historic moment in their lives. . . . I remember only too well what I said to General Somervell that day. I said, "Oh." As

Robert Oppenheimer thus acquired for Los Alamos what Leo Szilard had not been able to organize in Chicago: scientific freedom of speech. The price the new community paid, a social but more profoundly a political price, was a guarded barbed-wire fence around the town and a second guarded barbed-wire fence around the laboratory itself, emphasizing that the scientists and their families were walled off where knowledge of their work was concerned not only from the world but even from each other.

Like apples of gold in a silver setting is a word that is aptly spoken. It is a golden ring, an ornament of finest gold, such is a wise apology to an attentive ear." —Proverbs 25:11–12

She hadn't so much spoken the words as let them out of their cages….

Your voice is your identity.

As for her charmspeak, she'd gotten so powerful it made Leo nervous. If she told him to eat his vegetables, he might actually do it.

Even Dionysus's welcome-home speech wasn't enough to dampen my spirits. Yes, yes, so the little brat didn't get himself killed and now he'll have an even bigger head. Well, huzzah for that. In other announcements, there will be no canoe races this Saturday....

You cannot keep yourself from talking about what you care about most. Jesus said, "A man's heart determines his speech.