Speech Quotes

Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.

I love her attitude, but as much as I'd like to bring my medals to a speech or appearance, I never do.

You can't just give a speech and expect people to fall down and agree with you.

Literature is the immortality of speech.

I indeed had only one scene, one speech, one little speech, but it was with Robin Williams.

One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.

Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech.

Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.

No matter how bad things are, they can always be worse. So what if my stroke left me with a speech impediment? Moses had one, and he did all right.

America needs jobs, smaller government, less spending and a president with the courage to offer more than yet another speech.

I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.

Advertising is speech. It's regulated because it's often effective speech.

Within speech, words are subject to a kind of relation that is independent of the first and based on their linkage: these are syntagmatic relations, of which I have spoken.

I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between China and the United States. Which way is it going to go? It's hard to see.

I was at the vice president's Christmas party. I thought that his speech was spectacular, and I knew that it was a very emotional and difficult thing for him to do, but I admonished him for not waiting just one more stinking day.

Body language is a very powerful tool. We had body language before we had speech, and apparently, 80% of what you understand in a conversation is read through the body, not the words.

I'm a big advocate of freedom: freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of thought.

That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed and cursed with instant communication? We should not fight fire with fire, threats with threats.

The color of the mountains is Buddha's body; the sound of running water is his great speech.

A great speech is literature.

Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.

We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

I've decided to cut out the part of the speech where I say anything nice about Democrats.

Lord Chancellor, did I deliver the speech well? I am glad of that, for there was nothing in it.

I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.

We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action.

I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise?

In the spiritual body moreover, man appears such as he is with respect to love and faith, for everyone in the spiritual world is the effigy of his own love, not only as to the face and the body, but also as to the speech and the actions.

Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.

There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.