Quotes of: Speech Keyword

In rendering its decision in our case, the Supreme Court equated money with speech because these days it takes the first to make yourself heard.

James L. Buckley

We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about; what they care about is the picture.

Madeleine Albright

Every article I wrote in those days, every speech I made, is full of pleading for the recognition of lead poisoning as a real and serious medical problem.

Alice Hamilton

As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be wise or foolish.

Demosthenes

Say what you feel, because your last breath determines your last speech.

Aloysius Jnr

Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.

William Safire

Ideas matter. Legislative proposals matter. Slick campaigns and dazzling speeches can work for a while, but the magic always wears off.

Charles Krauthammer

Look at the tyranny of party-- at what is called party allegiance, party loyalty-- a snare invented by designing men for selfish purposes-- and which turns voters into chattels, slaves, rabbits; and all the while, their masters, and they themselves a...

Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 1

It was Ebon's turn now, and he stepped forward and gave the pegasus' great clarion neigh -- far more like a trumpet than a horse's neigh; hollow bones are wonderful for resonance -- and swept his wings forward to touch, or almost touch, his alula-han...

Pegasus

Our young people, raised under the old rules of courtesy, never indulged in the present habit of talking incessantly and all at the same time. To do so would have been not only impolite, but foolish; for poise, so much admired as a social grace, coul...

The Wisdom of the Native Americans: Including The Soul of an Indian and Other Writings of Ohiyesa and the Great Speeches of Red Jacket, Chief Joseph, and Chief Seattle

He stopped, feeling lonely in his long speech.

The Grapes of Wrath

An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates.

Thomas Mann

Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.

Never Give In!: The Best of Winston Churchill's Speeches

We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

Dreams be the speech of thy soul. Listen.

The Tier of Eternal Grace: The Mirrors Shadow

Equality may be a fiction but nonetheless one must accept it as a governing principle.

Writings And Speeches

Silence embeds thoughts better than speeches. If you are afraid of silence, you are afraid of your thoughts.

Rossana Condoleo

Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language.

Roman Jakobson

Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

Thomas Hobbes

Mum would have a panic attack if she had to stand up and give a speech around a table.

Lily James

My job in the Senate is not just to give speeches and do interviews, it's to solve problems.

Marco Rubio