Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.
Sophocles
Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding.
Sir George Savile
Speech is external thought, and thought internal speech.
Antoine Rivarol
A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.
Lord Mansfield
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.
Harry A. Blackmun
The problem with speeches isn't so much not knowing when to stop, as knowing when not to begin.
Frances Rodman
Speech was given to the ordinary sort of men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.
Robert Southey
To me, the "tape" is the final arbiter of any investment decision. I have a cardinal rule: Never fight the tape!
Martin Zweig
The most precious things in speech are pauses.
Sir Ralph Richardson
Political speeches are like steer horns. A point here, a point there, and a lot of bull in between.
Alfred E. Neuman
Brothers don't necessarily have to say anything to each other-they can sit in a room and be together and just be completely comfortable with each other.
Leonardo Dicaprio
So I have talked with Betsey and Betsey has talked with me, And we have agreed together that we can't never agree.
Will Carleton
Three things matter in a speech - who says it, how he says it and what he says, and of the three, the latter matters the least.
John Morley
I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a few public officials.
George Mason
The best answer to bad speech is good speech.
Alan M. Dershowitz
Churchill wrote his own speeches. When a leader does that, he becomes emotionally invested with his utterances. If Churchill had had a speech writer in 1940, Britain would be speaking German today.
James C. Humes
Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts.
Charles M. De Talleyrand
Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come of nothing.
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Richard doesn't really like me to kill bugs, but sometimes I can't help it.
Cindy Crawford
Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships.
Charles Simic
It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood.
Karl Popper
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw
Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.
Benjamin Disraeli
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
Soren Kierkegaard
Instructions for making a speech: Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.
Pythagoras
Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.
Sir Francis Bacon
Surliness is incivility in speech.
Theophrastus
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
Publilius Syrus
Speech is a mirror of the soul: as a man speaks, so is he.
Publilius Syrus
The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency.
Walter Bagehot
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.
Allan Bloom
Thought is the fountain of speech.
Chrysippus
If they give themselves up without force within one month maximum from the date of this speech, we can promise them that they are going to be safe.
Prince Abdullah
A fool may be known by six things: anger, without cause; speech, without profit; change, without progress; inquiry, without object; putting trust in a stranger, and mistaking foes for friends.
Arabian Proverb
The speech will give millions of Americans an impression of this president and his administration at a time when the edifice is shaky. And we never know until it is delivered how it is going to go or where it will go.
Wayne Fields
It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.
Herbert Hoover
Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.
Henry David Thoreau
My father and he had one of those English friendships which begin by avoiding intimacies and eventually eliminate speech altogether.
Jorge Luis Borges
He'll mention the fact that the federal government didn't talk about post-secondary education in the throne speech.
Darrell Dexter
Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.
Thomas Carlyle
There was a lot of patting ourselves on the back in that speech, but it was pretty short on substance.
Sen Vi Simpson
In our period, they say there is free speech. They say there is no penalty for poets, There is no penalty for writing poems. They say this. This is the penalty.
Muriel Rukeyser
[Sheppard began his career as a high school speech teacher, and was a professor at St. John's into the late 1990s.] I think my teaching has been, or was, more important in my life than public address, ... [Because] teaching was more important than public address announcing in its value to society.
Bob Sheppard
Even though [the Hartford speech] was one of his standard speeches, every time he gave it there were variations.
Clayborne Carson
The irony upon irony of this lawsuit was great. First, Fox having the trademark 'fair and balanced' - a network which is anything but fair and balanced. Then there's the irony of a news organization trying to suppress free speech.
Al Franken
It [the Enlightenment] is clearly the foundation of the modern world. Almost everything we are arguing about at the moment - whether it's the religious hatred law and free speech, immigration, the movement of peoples, goods and services and what that does to national identity, or the proper limits of the state - go back to the positions first set out in the Enlightenment.
Andrew Marr
What we have is two important values in conflict: freedom of speech and our desire for healthy campaigns in a healthy democracy. You can't have both.
Dick Gephardt
The framers of the constitution knew human nature as well as we do. They too had lived in dangerous days; they too knew the suffocating influence of orthodoxy and standardized thought. They weighed the compulsions for restrained speech and thought against the abuses of liberty. They chose liberty.
William Orville Douglas
As a business man, I can only thank German politicians for helping to sell my movie. As a democrat, however, I am disgusted with this attempt to play politics with the basic rights of free speech and expression.
Anil Sahin
If the Prodigal Son's a parable, and if Adam and Eve are metaphors, then maybe God is just figure of speech.
Dan Barker
He does not live in vain; who employs his wealth, his thought, and his speech to advance the good of others.
Hindu Proverb
Just because the management and coaching is awful, where do they get off violating our First Amendment right to freedom of speech? From now on, if you go to a sporting event, sit in your seat and don't make a noise until the front office says you can.
Mike Allenbaugh
Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.
Norman O. Brown
The government contends it rises to the level of domestic terrorism. We say it?s free speech.
Andrea Lindsay
Therefore, the proclamation has no effect on the Bill of Rights -- specifically the freedom of speech, of expression or of the press and the right of the people to peaceful assembly and to petition the government for redress and grievances.
Marlon Manuel
It didn't cost anything to e-mail it. I'm not sure exactly, but it normally takes only an hour or two for us to write something of that length. … Most of that information came from the speech, which was already developed.
Carla Blanton
The most moving experience for me was in 1978 when our first patient heard speech for the first time.
Graeme Clark
(We wanted a) normal atmosphere, a normal family environment. We wanted her speech skills.
Carrie Zervas
The first casualty when war comes is truth (speech, 1917).
Hiram Johnson
God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
Marcus Fabius Quintilian
The force of the committee's announcement this week is going exactly in the wrong direction - chilling the free speech of judicial candidates and silencing good-faith answers.
Kent Ostrander
The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the graphic art are taxed beyond their powers in attempting to portray its features. Language and illustration combined must fail.
John Wesley Powell
He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
Richard Darman
Some people want as much access to free speech as possible; others don't want religion endorsed in the classroom. Who's caught in the middle? The school district.
Richard Ackerman
Saturday's speech at West Point will, of course, be to people who have already answered the call to service by serving our nation in the military academy, at which they are graduating at a time when our nation is at war.
Ari Fleischer
Back in December of 1996 when he gave his very famed 'irrational exuberance' speech, the stock market was actually fairly valued according to or models. This is very different, because the equity market is actually about 28 percent overvalued compared to our models right now.
Charles Reinhard
Coach Johnson gave us a heck of a halftime speech. We just sucked it up decided not to quit.
Jonathan Lacour
It's not just about the Voice having free speech. The administrators, not just the students, deserve free speech. We don't have that in our district.
Larry Snow
Labor has consistently argued that the inclusion of such penalties for whistle blowers, public servants and journalists in this Bill was an attack on freedom of speech.
John Faulkner
This bill provides full opportunity for anyone to exercise their freedom of speech and their other constitutional duties. But more importantly, this bill gives a family the right to some privacy during their darkest hour, to grieve, honor and pay their respects to their loved one. This is a right they have earned and that they deserve.
Rep. Lee Tafanelli
Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.
William Safire
Everyone was in stitches at the Queen's speech. It was such a lovely, affectionate tribute.
Jilly Cooper
The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech.
John Mortimer
For none of us can ever express the exact measure of his needs or his thoughts or his sorrows; and human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.
Gustave Flaubert
My freedom of speech rights are very clear.
Larry Forgy
Criticism of government finds sanctuary in several portions of the 1st Amendment. It is part of the right of free speech. It embraces freedom of the press.
Hugo Black
A speech from Ernest Bevin on a major occasion had all the horrific fascination of a public execution. If the mind was left immune, eyes and ears and emotions were riveted.
Michael Foot
We all cherish freedom of speech, but with a reasonable approach and a reasonable use of it. If we come to this, it is a debate. If not, then it is a power struggle. Who is going to win, the Muslim principles or the Western principles?
Tariq Ramadan
When one is grateful for something too good for common thanks, writing is less unsatisfactory than speech-one does not, at least, hear how inadequate the words are.
George Eliot
Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.
Thomas Carlyle
RAREBIT, n. A Welsh rabbit, in the speech of the humorless, who point out that it is not a rabbit. To whom it may be solemnly explained that the comestible known as toad-in-a-hole is really not a toad, and that _riz-de-veau a la financiere_ is not the smile of a calf prepared after the recipe of a she banker.
Ambrose Bierce
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
Ingrid Bergman
We learn the meaning of each word and we have to know what part of speech the word is.
Kathy Stageberg
They screwed it up right from the start. The big mistake he made was early on, when he didn't follow through with specific initiatives on the reform issues that he talked about in the State of the State speech.
Terry Christensen
A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.
Brendan Francis
It's the first key Fed speech since the scale of the devastation became apparent so that could be quite important if he is used as a vehicle to express Fed policy.
Ian Gunner
The market was probably expecting Lula to make a stronger statement, not just a simple apology. This speech will hardly calm down the opposition.
Vitali Meschoulam
You only got 30 days of free speech in Montgomery County.
Richard Griffiths
At this point, we have no plans to limit athletic or co-curricular (music, speech, etc.) trips, but we also do not intend to have an increase in these areas beyond what we did last year, ... We will, of course, keep open the possibility of review if fuel prices continue to increase.
John Newby
The Framers [of the Constitution] knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny.
Hugo Black
It is pretty shocking that governmental interference into our rights and free speech takes place in the U.S., ... It's hard to reconcile this with the 'land of the free' and the 'home of the brave.' .
Howard Stern
I think the fact that this was his first public speech in Toronto, he should have been (here).
Jane Pitfield
You've discriminated, in effect, against political speech, which is the speech most protected in our (First) Amendment.
John Simpson
The sad reality is that groups have already interacted by insulting each other's religions. In most cases, certainly in the Danish case, it's a calculated insult. In the West, we are allowed to make calculated insults in the name of freedom of speech.
Andrew Walsh
The central risk to social cohesion is persistent and high unemployment. The speech was littered with a variety of fresh initiatives that heighten the probability of increasingly robust job creation.
Goolam Ballim
Gossip is the tool of the poet, the shoptalk of the scientist and the consolation of the housewife, wit, tycoon and intellectual. It begins in the nursery and ends when speech is past.
Phyllis Mcginley
Most Chinese leaders are not naive. Their hopes for his speech aren't too high. But the mainstream government attitude is that Chen's position has been quite moderate both during and after his election. So as long as he doesn't say anything too provocative, Beijing's wait-and-see policy is likely to continue.
Chu Shulong
The ACLU has not given up on free speech in Tennessee. Tennessee residents who are pro-choice should have just as much right to express their view on a specialty license plate as those residents who are anti-choice.
Hedy Weinberg
If the tour had not gone ahead, the result would be that investors and producers would become more and more risk-averse. This is a freedom- of-speech issue.
Richard Thomas
Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.
Abbie Hoffman
I think Brandon, given a few years, will be very busy. I can't even begin to tell you. Our schedule is already 100 percent full for speech. We already have a waiting list.
Connie Joy
Richard Nixon went to China, and Ronald Reagan sat down with the Russians. Today President Bush has the same kind of opportunity to change his course. But it will take more than just a speech to do it.
Karen Wayland
I grew up to have my father's looks- my father's speech patterns-my father's posture- my father's opinions and my mother's contempt for my father.
Jules Feiffer
It was nice to see the president out there supporting us, ... It was a good speech, he talked a lot about the veterans and the war on terrorism.
Andrew Hill
Today, Rustin is overshadowed by memories of Dr. King and his [I Have a Dream] speech.
A. Philip Randolph
A lot of theater concepts are laughable; they're rubbish. What counts is getting human behavior right, all the tiny, negligible details of speech and gesture.
Jonathon Miller
Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says, 'there is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.' A well bred woman may easily and effectually promote the most useful and elegant conversation without speaking a word. The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.
Tom Blair
A speech should not just be a sharing of information, but a sharing of yourself.
Ralph Archbold
Be a craftsman in speech that thou mayest be strong, for the strength of one is the tongue, and speech is mightier than all fighting.
Maxims of Ptahhotep
They'll have to give a one-minute speech on why they should be voted Miss Meatball.
Christopher Bartolini
The other issue it raises is the kind of speech we'll hear. The strongest speech people see when they're voting is the speech when they're going to the ballot.
Jonathan Zittrain
[His speech amounts to a painful poke in the eye for Democrats, according to Greenfield.] Oh, it's a real poke, ... It's a way of embodying the idea that Republicans have done better than the Democrats, because even prominent members of their own party are supporting the other side.
Jeff Greenfield
We're not taking away their freedom of speech. We're letting people know that Hyatt is supporting these people.
Tariq Khan
Dialect or the speech of the people is capable of expressing whatever the people are.
Sterling Brown
The American courts ruled that money is speech and speech can't be limited in politics because of freedom of expression. We don't have that same sort of aggressive notion of freedom of speech.
Lisa Young
In many ways what they've done is created a world for real presidential debates in which the candidates have an opportunity, to a larger audience, not to engage each other, but to give another version of their stump speech.
John Wells
I'd Rather Die than Give a Speech.
Michael Klepper
When you throw dung on our Virgin Mother, it is hate speech. It is the same thing as drawing a swastika on a synagogue.
William Donohue
The law on glorification may well have unwelcome implications for freedom of speech, but it will do nothing to improve public safety.
Menzies Campbell
Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue.
Jean Baptiste Rousseau
It was to remedy what was a very egregious violation of people's First Amendment rights to free speech and assemble.
Jeremy Travis
Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.
Bergen Evans
We believe in free speech but you have to respect morals to have free speech. Publishing these cartoons is like screaming fire in a crowded theater. It is wrong.
Icgkc President Shahir Sahi
Rarely has a people paid the lavish compliment and taken the subtle revenge of turning its oppressor's speech into sorcery.
T. E. Kalem
In some ways, your Oscar speech is as important as the movie performance that got you the award. It's your chance to live forever in showbiz history. Or bore them to tears and come off as selfish and pampered.
Tom O'neil
The addition of strings and keyboard percussion was yet another layer added there that seemed to really enhance the drama of the speech.
Colin Tribby
I welcome their demonstration. I support the First Amendment to the constitution. Everyone in this country has the right to assembly and freedom of speech.
Alejandro Aviles
Hence, low bond yields are ambiguous for policy. It's a classic on the one hand, on the other hand speech.
Rob Henderson
He put a lot of things in perspective for us, and it really energized the guys in the first period. We came out with four goals (in the first period) and a strong effort, and that was directly affected by Jordan giving us a speech before the game.
Zenon Konopka
He'll give a speech about his life.
Tim Stuart
Tim gave a stump speech that got kinda rowdy. It was embarrassing. People were ticked off.
Sally Howard
It seemed to be a speech more appropriate for a political hack than a presidential candidate by someone who clearly fails to recognize leadership. It was a contradiction within a contradiction.
Tracey Schmitt
To me, if a performer is not demanding money, it's not an issue. But some of them do demand money, and if they do that, it's offensive to hide behind freedom of speech. In America, there is no freedom of commerce.
Roger Wilko
She's very mild in her speech, but she's hard-working.
Karen Goodman
The issue is, can you make a law to restrict free speech? The First Amendment says that 'Congress shall make no law (abridging the freedom of speech).' No law, period.
Greg Allen
I will be brief. Not nearly so brief as Salvador Dali, who gave the world's shortest speech. He said I will be so brief I have already finished, and he sat down.
Gene Fowler
As time goes on, I think my patience for free speech has dwindled somewhat.
Max Goldberg
While thousands are dying in Iraq, here at home our government is waging a new war, a 'war on dissent' that threatens to dismantle the constitution and severely challenge our country's basic democratic principles of free speech and peaceful assembly.
Michael Mcconnell
Alan Greenspan tends to give a tougher talk in a speech when he is not going to raise rates than he does when he is going to raise rates. He either barks or he bites, and I think he is barking.
Wayne Angell
From his speech today and the things he has put in his budget, we know that he strongly supports community colleges.
Nancy Chadwick
This is the largest (stage) ever put on the property and the largest production the student government has put on in the Union Free Speech Area.
John Lopez
It isn't the first-hand information that makes the best speech, but second-hand timing.
Hal Chadwick
All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.
Demosthenes
Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us.
William Orville Douglas
Like Brett, I think America is a free-speech zone.
Jay Bender
The government's speech on spending has been good, signaling it is mindful of the fiscal performance, but the market will watch for the figures coming out today and tomorrow to confirm that's really taking place.
Jorge Knauer
ACLU respects the privacy rights of individuals gathering at a somber moment, but at the same time, recognize that freedom of speech and assembly are cherished rights that need to be upheld. This country was founded on the right to protest. You can't pick which protesters should speak and who can't.
Hedy Weinberg
Governor Bush came in a read a speech ... It was a great speech, great words.
Ben Crenshaw
I would rather not go to court to fight about something. We're talking about individual's free speech rights. The council should seek to balance those free speech rights against the need for public safety to the extent it exists in Waikiki.
Lois Perrin
Criminal statute that violates a whole range of protected speech.
Ann Beeson
This is really an abuse of power. PETA and other groups are really being targeted because we are being social activists and engaging in free speech. This is un-American and unconstitutional and contrary to the interests of any definition of a healthy democracy.
Jeffrey Kerr
We're dealing with two types of ignorance, about Islam and about the freedom of speech.
Sohaib Bencheikh
It's always an issue at election time and an interesting one that balances rights versus aesthetics. The courts see campaign signs as being political speech and do not look favorably on restrictions.
Randy Hayes
Opera, n. A play representing life in another world whose inhabitants have no speech but song, no motions but gestures, and no postures but attitudes.
Ambrose Bierce
He fertilizes a phrase or a line of poetry for weeks and then gives birth to it in a speech.
John Colville
Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in a few words.
Aprocrypha
Bush's speech and the implications of what he proposed last night gives the market confidence that despite negative economic data like the consumer sentiment numbers this morning the economy is going to be okay.
John Waterman
He has laid out a long-term plan for the economy and he's trying to get everybody on board. The speech was to rally people to his plan of making Singapore a world-class city with a world-class service center.
Nizam Idris
Boy, what a speech, ... He made one of those wonderful, wonderful speeches to his people.
Dick Riley
There would be a restriction on free speech if it involves a matter that would not show respect to another person.
Carri Jenkins
In his speech Sharon has finally clarified that he is turning to the Left and will continue to make concessions.
Benjamin Netanyahu
It is hard to say exactly what the impact of such a speech can have on the development of merger negotiations.
Frank Governali
They're trying to muzzle the people. And that's not right because there is still the freedom of speech in this country.
Carol Cassidy
The public sees actors as heroes who give wonderful performances and then can't give a good speech.
Patricia Fripp
This is a poison pill. It (the ban on speech payments) needs to come off and we need to address this issue in separate legislation.
Pete Maysmith
Will it (the speech) change what's already scheduled to happen in Congress? Not one iota.
Frank Sharry
We search on text today, but how about searching on speech and visual content?
David Nahamoo
He's such an insignificant player on the national stage, a plodding speech praising JFK and discovering tax cuts won't do much to enhance his stature.
Nelson Warfield
Our view is that defamation should never be a criminal offense. It's not a crime. If in the exercise of free speech you offend someone or defame someone . . . it's a civil matter between the journalist and the person who was allegedly defamed.
Joel Simon
The issue is their speech and whether the government can ban them outright. Very few people are going to find that there is little social merit to their (church group's) speech. It's still religious expression and political expression.
John Blakeman
Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
Laurence J. Peter
The speech quietly signaled a 25-basis-point (quarter percentage point) rate hike in February, and was consistent with a further rate increase in March or May.
Conrad Dequadros
The idea for the card came after a patient shared with me his story of being pulled over for a minor traffic violation and how difficult the experience was because of his communication impairment. He had a brain injury which left him with slurred speech leading the officer to believe he was intoxicated.
Linda Wells
We'll be able to interact with these computers the way we interact with each other, they would recognize speech.
Kwabena Boahen
I'd already got that speech from Hunts.
Dave Hunter
This is a freedom of speech issue, and we're going to use the First Amendment to declare that abortion is murder. We're going to do it in front of the courthouse and courtroom, and we're going to do it across the nation.
Troy Newman
He's not asking for the church to become involved, he's asking for Pastor Johnson to disseminate this through his personal network. Certainly, the pastor does not lose his right to free speech.
Carlo Loparo
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