Quotes about speech
power answers speech
Power should answer by action, not by speech.
different internet free-speech
Everybody has a different Internet. Bruce Sterling
war speech firsts
I never would've imagined in the first part of my life that I could've stood up and said anything. The war in Vietnam changed me. I was so angry. Some of my speeches probably weren't well considered. Jane Fonda
against al best open qaeda society speech understand weapons
We need to understand that an open society and free speech and press... really are the best weapons against al Qaeda and extremism. Elliott Abrams
speech might able
I cannot make speeches, Emma...If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am. You hear nothing but truth from me. I have blamed you, and lectured you, and you have borne it as no other woman in England would have borne it. Jane Austen
art freedom-of-speech way
Journalists justify their treachery in various ways according to their temperaments. The more pompous talk about freedom of speech and ‘the public’s right to know’; the least talented talk about Art; the seemliest murmur about earning a living. Janet Malcolm
country freedom-of-speech speech
I would rather put up with Rush Limbaugh and live in a country where we all do have freedom of speech. Bill Maher
pausing attention speech
Slow down, especially at the beginning of a speech. You'll get the audience's attention by pausing. Bob Kerrey
years one-line speechless
Seventy years of ad-lib material, and I am speechless. Bob Hope
humorous speech germany
Free speech isn't dead in Germany and Italy, merely the speakers...
names speech dangerous
To protest free speech in the name of protecting women is dangerous and wrong. Betty Friedan
speech green cold
Banquet: a plate of cold, hairy chicken and artificially coloured green peas completely surrounded by dreary speeches and appeals for donations. Bennett Cerf
men speech able
Every man is born with the faculty of reason and the faculty of speech, but why should he be able to speak before he has anything to say? Benjamin Whichcote
dad people speech
People are always coming up to me and saying, 'I heard your dad's speech, and it's really great.' And they'll mention some place I didn't even know my dad was going to. Bill Gates
bond closely couple looking normally says speech traders
We'll be looking at it (Greenspan's speech) a lot more closely than we normally do, but I don't know if we'd ever look at it the same bond traders do. To them everything he says is gospel. It's only once every couple of years we even know what he's saying.
ideas magic speech
Ideas matter. Legislative proposals matter. Slick campaigns and dazzling speeches can work for a while, but the magic always wears off. Charles Krauthammer
meaningful people freedom-of-speech
Freedom of speech implies the world isn’t defined. It is meaningful when people are allowed to see the world their way. Ai Weiwei
freedom-of-speech important
The freedom of speech is an important yardstick for a society's level of civilization.
freedom-of-speech world modern
Without freedom of speech, there is no modern world, just a barbaric one.
single-life speech vain
If there is no free speech, every single life has lived in vain
speech remember carnegie
I used to have this slight speech implement and couldn't remember things before I took the Sam Carnegie course. Bill Peterson
latter matter matters says speech three
Three things matter in a speech - who says it, how he says it and what he says, and of the three, the latter matters the least
choir eloquence filled gifted glow gospels heard loft love masters merely morning parlor people poetic rhythmic rhythms sermons singers soaring songs soul speech summer sunday sweet thrill
Yes, I heard my people singing!--in the glow of parlor coal-stove and on summer porches sweet with lilac air, from choir loft and Sunday morning pews--and my soul was filled with their harmonies. Then, too, I heard these songs in the very sermons of my father, for in the Negro's speech there is much of the phrasing and rhythms of folk-song. The great, soaring gospels we love are merely sermons that are sung; and as we thrill to such gifted gospel singers as Mahalia Jackson, we hear the rhythmic eloquence of our preachers, so many of whom, like my father, are masters of poetic speech. Paul Robeson
thinking speech politics
I think that some restriction on speech is appropriate. Dianne Feinstein
cyberspace internet free-speech
There are no bad haircuts in cyberspace. Dave Barry
exercise dieting speech
Albert Einstein, who discovered that a tiny amount of mass is equal to a huge amount of energy, which explains why, as Einstein himself so eloquently put it in a famous 1939 speech to the Physics Department at Princeton, 'You have to exercise for a week to work off the thigh fat from a single Snickers.'
speech literature variables
The most familiar quotations are the most likely to be misquoted. Some misquotations are still variable, some have settled down to false versions that have obscured the true ones. They have passed over from literature into speech. Carl Clinton Van Doren
justice nephew speech
For jokes as well as justice come in with speech. - Aslan, The Magician's Nephew C. S. Lewis
against asked brooklyn conference hate speech sponsors stand violent
We have asked the conference adviser, the Brooklyn Bridge/TBLI Group, and conference sponsors and participants to take a stand against Mr. Keiser's violent hate speech but to no avail.
corrupted speakers-and-speaking speech
When ever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.
phrases speech accepted
Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute. Agnes Repplier
justice freedom-of-speech liberty
The dimension of cultural equity needs to be added to the humane continuum of liberty, freedom of speech and religion, and social justice. Alan Lomax
inspirational life speech
There is but one pleasure in life equal to that of being called on to make an after-dinner speech, and that is not being called on to make one. Charles Dudley Warner