Speech Quotes
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I always wanted to be an actor, but with a speech impediment it's kind of tough. I decided to roll the dice and take an acting class, which was very, very nerve-wracking... my stomach would just be in knots.
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You don't make your words true by embellishing them with religious lace. In making your speech sound more religious, it becomes less true.
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If you say, I'm living in America and I have freedom of speech but I choose not to use it because it's going to cost me, well, you're not living in freedom. You're not free.
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I could displace the mystery of my speech onto writing, the latter perhaps recharging the former.
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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.
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The sublime delight of truthful speech to one who has the great gift of uttering it, will make itself felt even through the pangs of sorrow.
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Speech devoted to truth should be straightforward and plain
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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.
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We shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it. Abraham Lincoln, White House speech 11 April 1865. Or arm th' obdured breast With stubborn patience as with triple steel.
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Freedom of speech means not only freedom for the views with which you agree but also freedom for the views which you hate and deplore.
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Undoubtedly they do more and viler things than those which we know and discover.
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Dr. King gave the "I have a dream" speech, not the "I have a plan" speech.
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Speech is the mirror of the mind.
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What we need to do in this PC world is forget about unanimity of speech and unanimity of thought and we need to concentrate on being respectful of those people with whom we disagree.
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It is by speech that many of our best gains are made. A large part of the good we receive comes to us in conversation.
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I went to the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania like my dad did. I even gave the graduation speech at Wharton, which is what my dad did. I wrote the speech.
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Freedom of speech is a great thing and we have said nothing that is not allowed.
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Consider in silence whatever any one says: speech both conceals and reveals the inner soul of man.
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Silent solitude makes true speech possible and personal. If I am not in touch with my own belovedness, then I cannot touch the sacredness of others. If I am estranged from myself, I am likewise a stranger to others.
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The very best impromptu speeches are the ones written well in advance.
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Blessed the one who loves truth continually and has not lent his mouth as an instrument of impiety by lying, for he fears the commandment about idle speech.
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To have a specific style is to be poor in speech.
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The cold, increased by the tremendous speed, deprived them of the power of speech.
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What view is one likely to take of the state of a person's mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
