Top 1200 Graduation Speech Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

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?

I went to school. I went to Juilliard. You spend 13 hours a day on voice and speech. Now I realize why.

As politicians we have to make very difficult decisions and one...is when freedom of speech actually insults public safety.

My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe.

First Witch He knows thy thought: Hear his speech, but say thou nought.

I have a long history of defending, and promoting, free speech and open debate - especially (especially!) within Muslim communities.

Most people, I suspect, still have in their minds an image of America as the great land of college education, unique in the extent to which higher learning is offered to the population at large. That image used to correspond to reality. But these days young Americans are considerably less likely than young people in many other countries to graduate from college. In fact, we have a college graduation rate that's slightly below the average across all advanced economies.

Academic freedom and free speech mean the right to consider ideas with which you might disagree.

Getting a lot of applause, announcing military reforms and upgrades. It's a really good speech [of Donald Trump].

It is within the established American tradition of satire, if America surrenders on this point, the freedom of speech is a relic of history.

The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure of speech is too great for his income of ideas.

Speech is an old torn net, through which the fish escape as one casts it over them.

I fundamentally agree with the critical nature of Israeli democracy, which embraces the core notion of free speech.

But in love each moment is magnified, and every gesture, word and syllable is examined like a speech by the President.

I'm still working on my speech, but I do a lot of voice-acting work. My agent is the best. I make a good living.

Censorship is un-American, and it's egregious that any journalist would advocate for others to be banned for political speech.

I will gladly go to jail in the name of free speech. I have no problem with what I said. Make me a martyr.

Whatever doubt there may be as to the quality or purpose of our free speech we certainly have ample volumes in production.

I understand freedom of speech but if I made my living spreading rumors about people, my family wouldn't claim me.

Joan Rivers broke down barriers, advocated for free speech, and never apologized for who she was.

Coming out of graduation, I didn't immediately know what direction I wanted to do so I decided to just stay as an intern until it really kind of dawned on me and I felt more compelled one way or the other. So I gave it a few years and then after two years it was really clear that deep down I missed being a full time creative artist. Ironically, I started getting clients who were all in the entertainment industry and a lot of them were in comedy!

I don't watch television and I rarely go to the cinema, but I recently watched 'The King's Speech' on a flight. It was so beautiful and so simple.

Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.

Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.

Free speech may be a right, but only by using it as a force for good in the world do we make it a virtue.

Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.

Is there a free speech crisis on college campuses? One can certainly make that argument, but that portrayal is at least as misleading as it is informative.

I have known John McCain personally since 1982. I wrote a well-received speech for him.

Lebanese freedom of speech : You get to say whatever you like as long as the authorities approve of it... Hilarious.

Language is in decline. Not only has eloquence departed but simple, direct speech as well, though pomposity and banality have not.

Some people in China don't look at freedom of speech as an abstract ideal, but more as a means to an end.

P.E. was my life in school. Without it, I wouldn't be standing here. It gave me confidence when I was an overweight kid with a speech impediment.

I don't rely on the media. I usually average one speech a day for 25 years. People know me because I'm out there.

To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.

They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one's behind me, anyway.

Hong Kong has a reputation for freedom in spite of the People's Republic of China. It has a strong tradition of free speech.

Painting is just like making an after-dinner speech. If you want to be remembered, say one thing and stop.

Mum would have a panic attack if she had to stand up and give a speech around a table.

The music that of common speech but slanted so that each detail sounds unexpected as a sharp inserted in a simple scale.

Song is the licensed medium for bawling in public things too silly or sacred to be uttered in ordinary speech.

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

Speech gave man a unique power to lead a double life, he could say one thing and do another.

Banning hate speech doesn't end racism or antisemitism. Social pressure does that. It becomes socially unacceptable.

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

...the reality of intelligent British speech... uses blasphemus, coital and cloacal expletives as a matter of course.

I worked on one speech about the financial system that caused the Dow to drop, like, 200 points.

Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately.

I was interested in the ideas - freedom, free speech and having control of my own life. That's why I became a Tory.

If the Prodigal Son's a parable, and if Adam and Eve are metaphors, then maybe God is just figure of speech.

Speech writers are more vulnerable to vanity than any other group of people in Washington.

The people of Iran have had to endure repressive laws that have stifled their freedom of speech and religion for too long.

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'.

I was a fat little kid with a speech impediment. I used to get beat up, not just picked on.

Searching for the Truth through words and speech is like sticking your head in a bowl of glue.

Prayer needs no speech. It is in itself independent of any sensuous effort. But it must be combined with the utmost humility.

There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.

All the big powers they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right.

Freedom of worship, even of public speech, would become a farce if interference became the order of the day.

Any kind of restrictions put on free speech would have worse consequences than bullying.

As all Members of Parliament know, the ease and flow of making a speech outside the House is not at all the same as that required in the Chamber.