Speech Quotes - Page 39

Not telling is just as interesting as telling I have found. Why speech, that short verbal journey from inside to outside can be excrutiating under certain circumstances is fascinating.

Say it again,” he says. “That whole drawn-out speech?” I remember something about a solar system, but I’m too light-headed to recite the entire thing all over again. He steps closer. “No. The part about you fallin’ for me.

It wasn't that I was stupid ... It was just that there didn't seem to be a lot to say that someone wasn't already saying.

So I am hoping my second outing to your wonderful university turns out differently, because it would be highly embarrassing if I said, “Good evening Yaleites” or “Yalers”, or whatever you guys are called, and got stuck at Yaaaaa…. That wouldn’t make for much of a speech.

Speech is the index of the mind.

Speech devoted to truth should be straightforward and plain

Believe me, those great death bed speeches are written ahead of time.

Before I begin speaking, there is something I would like to say.

Cultivate a sweet temper and the sweet speech which is its natural consequence.

Man must saturate his daily life in truthful speech, virtuous acts and holy thoughts.

As if he was beating me to the punch, his words living forever, while I was left speechless, no rebuttal, no words left to say.

Ward has no heart, they say, but I deny it: He has a heart, and gets his speeches by it.

As any custom is disused, the words that expressed it must perish with it; as any opinion grows popular, it will innovate speech in the same proportion as it alters practice.

You would do better, at least no worse, to obliterate texts than to blacken margins, to fill in the holes of words till all is blank and flat and the whole ghastly business looks like what it is, senseless, speechless, issueless misery.

One sign of an excellent speech? 'Can people repeat something they heard, word for word?'

It's obvious that I come down on the side of free speech for anybody's work.

One is so apt to cheapen a thing when one tries hastily to put it into words, and ever afterward it is never quite the same.

The best discussion of trouble in boardroom and business office is found in newspapers' own financial pages and speeches by journalists in management jobs.

But there's a lot of them that had that exact reaction, who had never heard Trump speak before. And I remember when I said this after [Donald] Trump's speech, I had a lot of emails. "Come, Rush! It's not... People aren't that segregated anymore." Don't doubt me on this. The left, you do not know how they sequester themselves.

When I hear Governor Mitt Romney in his speech talk about how the Republican Party must stand for legitimate conservative values. They don't.

There's a negative connotation to internet trolls, but at the same time this is becoming mainstream. This kind of speech pattern, the way people speak, this is common on the internet.

The Democrats do not like free speech. And that's not an exaggeration.

In fact, anybody else who hears this [speech of Donald Trump in Philadelphia] is probably gonna be dutifully impressed with Trump's comportment, his presentation, his knowledge of this, and his temperament here. It's all a great package and looks good.

Antonin Scalia knows that freedom of speech has consequences. And the consequences of freedom of speech are speech you don't like, that you don't want to hear, that you don't want to listen to.

Being part of the campaign, we put up front in all of Donald Trump's speeches for the last two or three weeks not the FBI but ObamaCare. That seems to me to be the thing that moved the votes in Michigan, that moved the votes in places where we otherwise Pennsylvania, Wisconsin.