Top 1200 Great Speech Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.

He who takes not counsel of the Unseen and Silent, from him will never come real visibility and speech.

The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.

One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting.

Freedom of speech and of the press are essential to the enlightenment of a free people and in restraining those who wield power.

Verse is the natural speech of men, as singing is of birds'The Week's Survey, 18 June 1904

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

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

If I find great material, or a great character, or a great director that wants to do something on TV, or whether it's in film, or whatever it is, man - as long as it's good, and on the level, I'm open to it.

Science has great skills, great reasoning and great intelligence in combining effects. It knows HOW to do many things but it admittedly does not know the WHY of anything.

We have the great fans in Detroit. We've got a great ballpark, great stadium.

It occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility.

I obviously would love to play with a great, great, great quarterback.

Phil Neville could be on the road to one day, maybe, becoming the England manager. I know him closely. He was a great captain, a great leader. He's had great experience.

I always say that, if you have great actors and great storytelling and great monsters, and you mix them together, nine times out of 10, it explodes in your face.

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

It's great extremes which leads to great drama and great comedy.

Dybala only lacks the belief that he is a great footballer. After his great experience at Palermo he had a great start with Juve and he did beautiful things.

I had a great job and I lost it, but I'm doing great now, I have a great family, my daughters all live with me. Did I have a setback? Absolutely, but I don't look at it like a ruined my life.

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

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

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.

A kiss is a course of procedure cunningly devised, for the mutual stopage of speech at a moment when words are superfluous.

It seems that the right of freedom of speech that was enshrined in numerous constitutions is now under attack by religious institutions.

Just as typography is human speech translated into what can be read, so photography is the translation of reality into a readable image.

Our speech has its weaknesses and its defects, like all the rest. Most of the occasions for the troubles of the world are grammatical.

Beyond all the other reasons not to do it, free speech assaults always backfire: they transform bigots into martyrs.

Deliberation is not a particular type of speech, but a political act of collective decision-making in consideration of consequences.

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

Who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will to inflict great pain? The ability to suffer is a small matter: in that line, weak women and even slaves often attain masterliness. But not to perish from internal distress and doubt when one inflicts great suffering and hears the cry of it that is great, that belongs to greatness.

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

The spirit of the First Amendment has been effectively repealed for conservative speech by a censorious, accusatory mob.

I have a suspicion, because if you look at the whole, all the [Star Wars ] movies, the backlog of every one of these movies, there's a lot of great stuff, but one might not be not as good with the writing in this or the acting in that or the directing in that, this has great actors, great directors, great script, and I really feel like we're gonna make the best one [movie with Young Han Solo].

Racism is a form of insanity. Human beings became racist when they started talking. Speech has a lot to do with it.

It's freeing, to think that there's always an aspect of us outside the grasp of speech, the common stuff of language.

I've never bought this idea of taking a therapeutic distance. If I see a student or house staff cry, I take great faith in that. That's a great person; they're going to be a great doctor.

Great people have great egos; maybe that's what makes them great.

Time is truly the great enemy. It's not the great healer, it's the great stealer.

My height doesn't define my skill set. To be a great quarterback, you have to have great leadership, great attention to detail and a relentless competitive nature - and I try to bring that on a daily basis.

Great crises produce great men, and great deeds of courage.

That's Tommy, this great producer who comes in contact with people and must have a mental library of personnel who are great for this and great for that, and he brought this whole group of musicians to the project that I'd never worked with before.

I have declared again and again that if I say Aryans, I mean neither blood nor bones, nor hair nor skull; I mean simply those who speak an Aryan language. In that sense, and in that sense only, do I say that even the blackest Hindus represent an earlier stage of Aryan speech and thought than the fairest Scandinavians. To me an ethnologist who speaks of Aryan race, Aryan blood, Aryan eyes and hair, is as great a sinner as a linguist who speaks of a dolichocephalic dictionary or a brachycephalic grammar.

I know that one is able to win people far more by the spoken that by the written word, and that every great movement on this globe owes its rise to the great speakers and not to the great writers.

Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.

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

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

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 love my wife. We've had a few slings and arrows across the room, but I'm not prepared to give in, you know? People say she saved my life, but at the same time, I saved her life, as well, I think. She's a great mother, she's a great wife, she's a great worker, she's a great manager. She's just great.

The great advantages of simulation and dissimulation are three. First to lay asleep opposition and to surprise. For where a man's intentions are published, it is an alarum to call up all that are against them. The second is to reserve a man's self a fair retreat: for if a man engage himself, by a manifest declaration, he must go through, or take a fall. The third is, the better to discover the mind of another. For to him that opens himself, men will hardly show themselves adverse; but will fair let him go on, and turn their freedom of speech to freedom of thought.

We have to uphold a free press and freedom of speech - because, in the end, lies and misinformation are no match for the truth.

And the people listened, and their faces were quiet with listening. The story tellers, gathering attention into their tales, spoke in great rhythms, spoke in great words because the tales were great, and the listeners became great through them.

Wales was great. The people were great, and I had a great time there.

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.

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

The three elements of creativity are thus: loving, knowing, and doing - or heart, mind, and hands - or, as Zen Buddhist teaching has it; great faith, great question, and great courage.

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

The time has now come to amend the Constitution to restore freedom of speech for America's people of faith.

Coming from art school, I had a great sense of style - as did The Beatles and the Stones - and I enjoyed projecting that. Image, attitude, great music and great lyrics - that was the '60s.

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

I think you must remember that a writer is a simple-minded person to begin with and go on that basis. He's not a great mind, he's not a great thinker, he's not a great philosopher, he's a story-teller.