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Last updated on December 1, 2024.
Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
a fair degree of literacy of speech ... is increasingly rare in politicians and not necessarily regarded as an asset.
Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly.
O my mind,Make your speech egoless.Then everyoneWill appreciate, admire and adore you.
Do not be fooled by one who recites the Qurân. His recitation is but speech – but look to those who act according to it.
I've decided to cut out the part of the speech where I say anything nice about Democrats.
The strength of this country lies in the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights and the freedom of speech and thought.
I'm a believer in the Constitution and in the First Amendment. Not just for raising money but also for freedom of speech.
All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
I would rather put up with Rush Limbaugh and live in a country where we all do have freedom of speech.
I’ll always marvel at the liveliness of southern speech-so full of metaphor and hyperbole, quirks and vividness.
I ask unanimous consent that I be able to deliver a floor speech on immigration reform in Spanish.
Free speech is the foundation of an open and liberal democracy from college campuses to the White House.
Pinhead needed to say goodbye. He had a farewell speech to make. It was truly as simple as that.
This sounds crazy, but my goal is to be nominated for an Oscar. I was the kid who was practicing my acceptance speech when I was ten.
Monkeys who very sensibly refrain from speech, lest they should be set to earn their livings.
I've made my own comments as to our vales as well in a speech I gave to the State Department.
There could be great thrillers or great dramas or great comedies made in that world but everyone's afraid of it. So you have to do them as these crazy little independent movies.
Democrats need to value free speech and we should not be intimidated into giving an inch of it away.
My dad works in insurance; my mom is a speech pathologist. Very Midwestern, adorable childhood.
Jamaica's a country of great dichotomy. On the one hand you have a tourist industry with great beaches and resorts, but on the other you have such great poverty and the violence that goes along with that.
If you are an autodidact, you probably do write more in the rhythm of speech rather than having learnt prose.
If you're a black woman at an Ivy League school, there is no free speech for me because they're already pissed that I'm there.
Cease from practice based on intellectual understanding, pursuing words, and following after speech.
I believe that through positive thoughts, speech, action and attitudes, we change things for the better.
I wasn't a kid growing up thinking, 'One day I'll get an Oscar and make a speech.' That wasn't on my mind.
The threat or fear of violence should not become an excuse or justification for restricting freedom of speech.
Tony Blair is paid $500,000 for one speech, and no one asks how he is going to spend it.
When my daughter was younger we showed her all the great musicals. And the great dramas and great comedies, and the one that she took to the most was Some Like It Hot.
Listen to God's speech in his wondrous, terrible, gentle, loving, all-embracing silence.
You know, everybody believes in free speech until you start questioning them about it.
I had worked so hard for so long that I developed a speech impediment. It happens when I get tired.
Earlier in my political career, I had the opportunity to read the speech, and I almost threw up.
The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech.
Silence often expresses 'more powerfully than speech the verdict and judgment of society.
We've got a strong group of Republicans who are conservatives who know that their jobs aren't finished when they finish their speech.
I gave a funny speech at my wife's birthday party, and I'm thinking, 'Hey, I've still got it.'
Speech may be barren; but it is ridiculous to suppose that silence is always brooding on a nestful of eggs.
The truth thy speech doth show, within my heart reproves the swelling pride.
[Louis Brandeis] believes in natural rights of speech and liberty and the right to pursue happiness.
My great-great-great-grandfather or something, I think his father came before him; but, in the 1840s, he was a circuit-riding Baptist preacher.
Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.
Happy is the man whom the Muses love: sweet speech flows from his mouth.
The child takes most of his nature of the mother, besides speech, manners, and inclination.
We had an exercise in speech class in school, impromptu speaking, that I was always real good at.
I love her attitude, but as much as I'd like to bring my medals to a speech or appearance, I never do.
Music is the inarticulate speech of the heart, which cannot be compressed into words, because it is infinite.
In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation: here therefore, by Silence and by Speech acting together, comes a double significance.
I would hope to inspire in my listeners a feeling of freedom - of speech, thought and political activity.
My view is, let's not shut down anyone's right to speak, let's meet their comments with more speech.
My father always said that too many words cheapened the value of a man's speech.
A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.
Common fluency of speech in many men and most women is owing to a scarcity of matter.
It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
I think over the long run, it's better that government does not regulate the content of speech.
The true speech of man is idiomatic, if not of the earth and sky, then at least of the saloon and the bleachers.
My language! heavens!I am the best of them that speak this speech. Were I but where 'tis spoken.
I end every speech the night before a game with, 'Now, let's go get a snack.'
ORATORY, n. A conspiracy between speech and action to cheat the understanding. A tyranny tempered by stenography.
