Speech Quotes
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I think that's the real shame: We spent the last 48 hours talking about these disgusting, disgusting comments and disgusting behavior instead of talking about hurricane relief or what's going on in Flint, Michigan. It's just appalling to have to be dealing with such nonsense and such disgusting, you know, criminal speech.
Natalie Portman
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The whole end of speech is to be understood.
Confucius
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And endless are the modes of speech, and far Extends from side to side the field of words.
Homer
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I believe in freedom of speech, but I believe we should also have the right to comment on freedom of speech.
Stockwell Day
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Speak briefly and to the point.
Cato the Younger
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Lord Chancellor, did I deliver the speech well? I am glad of that, for there was nothing in it.
George III
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If you have freedom of speech, you have freedom of speech.
Barney Rosset
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Lamon, that speech won't scour. It is a flat failure and the people are disappointed.
Abraham Lincoln
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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."
Allan Loeb
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When I was a kid - and I don't know why, it's the most random thing - I wanted to be a speech therapist for little kids. I knew I wanted to do something with kids.
Haylie Duff
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Prayer is the little implement Through which Men reach Where Presence - is denied them. They fling their Speech By means of it - in God's Ear - If then He hear - This sums the Apparatus Comprised in Prayer
Emily Dickinson
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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.
Ben Lerner
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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.”
Nadine Strossen
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In case the rest of you missed it, the inspirational speech was: 'If you work hard, you can achieve great things. And then you die'.
Scott Adams
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Fighting is an expression. It's a form of speech, and that's why they call it martial arts. It's an art.
Chael Sonnen
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A thought Of that late death took all my heart for speech.
William Butler Yeats
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Change does not come on thoughts alone; because we have a revolutionary ideology and give speeches on it. It comes because you can change the material conditions of people, and get people to assist in the change, be the mainstay in the change in their conditions.
Chokwe Lumumba
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Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.
Thomas Hobbes
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Any man who makes a speech more than six times a year is bound to repeat himself, not because he has little to say, but because he wants applause and the old stuff gets it.
William Feather
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Asquith, when drunk, can make a better speech than any of us when sober.
Bonar Law
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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.
Anna Kamienska
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Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.
Sophocles
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To me it begins and ends with these psychedelic substances. The synergy of the psilocybin in the hominid diet brought us out of the animal mind and into the world of articulated speech and imagination.
Terence McKenna
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Speech is the mirror of the mind.
Seneca the Younger