Quotes About Speech

If you take short breaths, you will tend to have short bursts of attention and to speak in short sentences. Deep, full breaths will enable you to speak in longer, more complex sentences and to form deeper thoughts. Underwater swimming is the best remedy for over-short breath.

Broadly speaking, short words are best, and the old words, when short, are best of all.

I think "No comment" is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again. I got it from Sumner Welles.

The United States is a land of free speech. No where is speech freer—not even here where we sedulously cultivate it even in its most repulsive form.

The substance of the eminent Socialist gentleman's speech is that making a profit is a sin, but it is my belief that the real sin is taking a loss.

This was their finest hour

Lindbergh expressed these thoughts in a splendid speech while accepting the Wright Brothers Memorial Trophy at the Washington Aero Club in January 1946. Titling his speech "Honoring the Wright Brothers," he took as his theme "the way in which science was divorcing man from his old sense of independence and moral values."16

I will not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with respect of the past.

If the government thinks I am wrong for saying this, then let the government start doing its job.

el mexicano es por naturaleza silencioso…Si no sabe hablar muy bien, sabe en cambio, callar de manera excelente

I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.

The corrupt heart breaketh out by the lewd tongue.

Oui, tout à fait Notre pays est un État de droit. C'est indéniable. Encore faut-il préciser de quel droit il s'agit… Il n'y en a qu'un seul, unique et indivisible : le droit de garder le silence.

That he won Warringah with a single speech is a myth. Not in living memory had there been such an open, aggressive and competitive Liberal pre-selection contest as there was in Warringah in 1993.

She realises that if she is to save the show she is going to have to improvise a rousing speech, one of the many Henry V moments that make up her working life.

All things human begin with words.

The Queen's bum remained purple. She showed it to everyone in the country when she gave her yearly speech to the nation on Christmas Day, calling it her 'anus horribilis'.

My friends," he began, and one thumb securely hooked itself in his waistcoat pocket while his other hand hung at his side ready for a battery of theatrical gestures.

Risero entrambi, ricordandomi che sapevo parlare, quando ero dell'umore giusto. I miei ostacoli erano spesso miei, appunto.

Your 'let's remain calm and stay put' speech would be a lot more convincing if you weren't giving it in front of a pile of burning skeletons.

That which is made with words, with words can be unmade.

Unfortunately, the hyperbole of the inaugural outran the provisions of the budget.

We become the way we speak.

Your Words value you, and reveal your true character more than your personal name.