Quotes About Speech

The wise speaker first learns when to stay silent

Get what you can with words, because words are free, but the words of an armed man ring that much sweeter.

Words are weapons. They should be handled with proper care.

The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet.

I consider the luck of simply being born, of being plucked out of the cosmos and bestowed with eyes to see, and nerves to feel, and ears to hear. Our senses. Our speech. Our breath. How crucial and insistent our ceaseless moving lungs from our first cry to our last.

I wish that all those, who on this night are not merry enough to speak before they think, may ever after be grave enough to think before they speak!

Poor George [Bush], he can't help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth.

Words said can never be recalled. So it is best, oftimes, not to speak too quickly. Yet words left unsaid are worse. We wear them like weights around our hearts.

Poor George, he can't help it—he was born with a silver foot in his mouth.

The object of linguistics is language; that of poetics is concrete utterance. Language is an institution, a formal system which constitutes, for the hypothetical speaker, a "competence"; it is a virtual object. Speech (the poetic utterance, for our purposes) is an individual act which formulates a concrete discourse; it is a "performance".

Bon. Il ne te reste plus que cinq minutes pour arriver à prononcer une phrase de sept mots, c'est faisable, non? Allez, badinait-il pour de faux, si c'est trop, sept, trois me suffiraient...Mais les bons, hein? Merde! J'ai pas composté mon billet...Alors?

He sounded good, didn't he?" added Franck. "He only stuttered eight times." "That's what I mean.

My poems are more my silence than my speech. Just as music is a kind of quiet. Sounds are needed only to unveil the various layers of silence.

For the first time in her life she could talk openly of the things which interested her and were important to her. She had a great need of speech, of putting her thoughts into words; otherwise her thoughts seemed to escape her, flying about her brain in a wild confusion. It needed the power of words to put them in their places. And Rachel was full of understanding, using her sensitiveness to fan the thoughts of Anna towards coherency.

George Bush, had he been around at the time, would undoubtedly have joined this chorus in favour of the status quo, his only contribution to Ukrainian independence being the infamous 'Chicken Kiev' speech of August 1991, in which he urged Ukrainians to stay loyal to the Soviet Union. But at least Bush knew Ukraine existed.

religious tolerance, independent judiciaries, free press and speech, economic integration, international institutions, the transatlantic alliance, and a political idea of "the West.

Words can cause as much damage as a fist. They can leave deep scars that never fully heal. And they can kill.

The basic rules of male-female relations were imparted atmospherically in our family, no direct speech allowed.

But was talking aloud allowed?

Tugs had felt a sense of possibility today as she made that small speech, and there had to be a way to get that feeling back.

My deeds must speak for me, for words are too poor.

I was for many years myself a journalist and it is not appropriate to say a programme should not be broadcast.

When the medium of the film is English, even the illiterates also should speak in proper English.

Take some elocution lessons; you can joke with Ebonics, but the truth is, nothing beats the King's English. Learning how to speak properly, and the art of delivery can take you very far in life!