Speech Quotes - Page 19

If you listen to the urban speech patterns there you'll find it's quite characteristic that a sentence will begin in one language, go through a second language and end in a third. It's the very playful, very natural result of juggling languages. You are always reaching for the most appropriate phrase.

The very best impromptu speeches are the ones written well in advance.

Corporation: a miniature totalitarian state governed by a hierarchy of unelected officials who take a dim view of individualism, free speech, equality and eggheads. The backbone of all Western democracies.

A speech should not just be a sharing of information, but a sharing of yourself.

It is deplorable that homosexual persons have been and are the object of violent malice in speech or in action. Such treatment deserves condemnation from the church's pastors wherever it occurs. ... The intrinsic dignity of each person must always be respected in work, in action and in law.

Speeches are not magic and there is no great speech without great policy.

Don't give a speech. Put on a show.

When another writer in another house is not free, no writer is free.

A nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics, because comics are a natural target whenever an election comes up.

The current total of countries in the world with First Amendments is one. You have guaranteed freedom of speech. Other countries don't have that.

Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection.

Speeches pass away, but acts remain.

If one more 'journalist' makes a cavalier statement about me and my band, I will personally or with my fans' help, greet them at their home and discover just how much they believe in their freedom of speech.

An orator is the worse person to tell a plain fact.

Free speech, free press, free religion, the right of free assembly, yes, the right of petition... well, they are still radical ideas.

The general nature of the speech act fallacy can be stated as follows, using "good" as our example. Calling something good is characteristically praising or commending or recommending it, etc. But it is a fallacy to infer from this that the meaning of "good" is explained by saying it is used to perform the act of commendation.

You can't expect to communicate with anyone if you're a bore.

Truth lies in a small compass! The Aristotelians say, all truth is contained in Aristotle, in one place or another. Galileo makes Simplicius say so, but shows the absurdity of that speech by answering all truth is contained in a lesser compass, namely, in the alphabet.

President Obama and Mitt Romney both gave commencement speeches over the last few days. Obama was like, 'You can be whatever you want to be,' while Romney was like, 'I can be whatever you want me to be.'

Risk being seen in all of your glory.

Speech is the image of actions

If you speak evil, you will soon be worse spoken of.

The child takes most of his nature of the mother, besides speech, manners, and inclination.

By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of censorship that by its very existence chills free speech.

Thank you, your Holiness. Awesome speech.