Quotes on Speech

Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use short and positive speech.

For just as some women are said to be handsome though without adornment, so this subtle manner of speech, though lacking in artificial graces, delights us.

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

Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

Take away freedom of speech, and the creative faculties dry up.

Speech remains as a slave to you, but the moment it leaves your mouth, you become its slave.

The purpose of speech is to enliven the bliss in others.

Vocabulary enables us to interpret and to express. If you have a limited vocabulary, you will also have a limited vision and a limited future.

No matter how bad things are, they can always be worse. So what if my stroke left me with a speech impediment? Moses had one, and he did all right.

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.

I know those little phrases that seem so innocuous, and, once you let them in, pollute the whole of speech. 'Nothing is more real than nothing.' They rise up out of the pit and know no rest until they drag you down into its dark.

The accent of a man's native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.

The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech.

Indeed, theological discourse offers its strange jubilation only to the strict extent that it permits and, dangerously, demands of it wokman that he speak beyond his means, precisely because he does not speak of himself. Hence the danger of a speech that, in a sense, speaks against the one who lends himself to it. One must obtain forgiveness for every essay in theology. In all senses.

Even today, when an Aboriginal mother notices the first stirrings of speech in her child, she lets it handle the "things" of that particular country: leaves, fruit, insects and so forth. "We give our children guns and computer games," Wendy said. "They gave their children the land."

Without freedom of speech, there is no modern world, just a barbaric one.

ORATORY, n. A conspiracy between speech and action to cheat the understanding. A tyranny tempered by stenography.

I have no more pleasure in hearing a man attempting wit and failing, than in seeing a man trying to leap over a ditch and tumbling into it

A great man left a watchword that we can well repeat: "There is no indispensable man"

Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you-trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently; for in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, the whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.

Literature is the immortality of speech.