Speech Quotes
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The speech of one who knows what he is talking about and means what he says-it is thought on fire.
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Speech is the mark of humanity. It is the normal terminus of thought.
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All have the gift of speech, but few are possessed of wisdom.
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[T]he categories of intentionality are nothing more nor less than the metalinguistic categories in terms of which we talk epistemically about overt speech as they appear in the framework of thoughts construed on the model of over speech.
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And endless are the modes of speech, and far Extends from side to side the field of words.
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I think Will Smith's character says it best in his opening speech when he says, "We long for love, we wish we had more time and we're afraid of death."
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Wealth makes an ugly person beautiful to look on and an incoherent speech eloquent; and wealth alone can enjoy pleasure even in sickness and can conceal its miseries.
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Freedom of speech and the press must be complete. But then freedom of association must be complete too.
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The child takes most of his nature of the mother, besides speech, manners, and inclination.
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In this time when a citizenry applauds the liberation of a country as it lives in fear of its own freedom, when people all over the country fear reprisal if they use their right to free speech, it is time to get angry. It is time to get fierce.
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He who takes not counsel of the Unseen and Silent, from him will never come real visibility and speech.
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Lila was able to speak through writing; unlike me when I wrote, unlike Sarratore in his articles and poems, unlike even many writers I had read and was reading, she expressed herself in sentences that were well constructed, and without error, even though she had stopped going to school, but—further—she left no trace of effort, you weren’t aware of the artifice of the written word. I read and I saw her, I heard her. The voice set in the writing overwhelmed me, enthralled me even more than when we talked face to face: it was completely cleansed of the dross of speech, of the confusion of the oral;
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I'm not one who can write out a speech and remember all the names of the people that you need to thank because you need to thank all of those people.
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I formed several possible stories out of her speech, formed them at once, so it was less like I failed to understand than that I understood in chords, understood in a plurality of worlds.
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Jason tilts his head toward me, his hand moving slyly across his book. Stupid. Speech. Woman.
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Ragamuffins are simple, direct and honest. Their speech is unaffected. They are slow to claim, "God told me..." As they make their way through the world, they bear wordless, prophetic witness.
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I support freedom of speech - even Pamela Geller's right to her Islamophobic subway posters.
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When music is presented which, however appropriate for other occasions, does not fit the Sabbath, much is lost. . . . The Spirit does not ratify speech nor confirm music which lacks spiritual substance.
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From Bill Clinton speech- People are more impressed by the power of our example rather than the example of our power.
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“More speech can be the best way to reach out to individuals, changing what they think and not merely what they do.”
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The good dialogue writer is the one who can give you the impression of real speech.
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There is no talent so useful toward rising in the world, or which puts men more out of the reach of fortune, than that quality generally possessed by the dullest sort of men, and in common speech called discretion; a species of lower prudence, by the assistance of which, people of the meanest intellectuals, without any other qualification, pass through the world in great tranquillity, and with universal good treatment, neither giving nor taking offence.
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You can't just give a speech and expect people to fall down and agree with you.
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Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.
