Quotes of: Speech Keyword

Spanish—how shall I say this?—is like Portuguese spoken with a speech impediment.

Snooze: A Story of Awakening

Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.

Siddhartha

That speech (Daniel Webster's) “raised the idea of Union above contract or expediency and enshrined it in the American heart.

Master of the Senate

The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.

Nature

Action is always superior to speech in the Gospels, which is why the Word became flesh and not newsprint.

Mankind My Church

The mind, too, has a kind of blood; in common speech we call it hope.

Shadows on the Rock

Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

A bitter thing cannot be made sweet. The taste of anything can be changed. But poison cannot be changed into nectar.

Writings And Speeches

Lost rights are never regained by appeals to the conscience of the usurpers, but by relentless struggle.... Goats are used for sacrificial offerings and not lions.

Writings And Speeches

The best feeling in the world is performing in front of a live audience who like what you're doing. I can understand why people become dictators just because of the thrill they get making the speeches.

Steve Coogan

I suffered from a quite severe speech impediment when I was young, and keeping a journal was part of the therapy.

George Fetherling

Entrepreneur, you are your brand. Your website, business card, speech and how you walk and talk is your brand.

Onyi Anyado

A kiss is a course of procedure cunningly devised, for the mutual stopage of speech at a moment when words are superfluous.

Oliver Herford

First they came for the verbs, and I said nothing because verbing weirds language. Then they arrival for the nouns, and I speech nothing because I no verbs.

Peter Ellis

I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.

Pope Francis

You can't believe how pro-gay and pro-freedom-of-speech I am. I'm way out beyond anyone on the Left.

Penn Jillette

I hated my childhood. It was loathsome. My parents were deaf and dumb. Profoundly so. They could make noises when they were emotionally aroused, but they couldn't form it into speech.

Richard Griffiths

When controversial speech can be taken offline through pressures on private intermediaries without any kind of due process, that is something we need to be concerned about.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.

Stephen Fry

The words which we use in our everyday speech are nothing other than watered-down magic.

Sigmund Freud

In his tub-thumping speech at the 2008 Republican National Convention, Romney sounded like the hedge-fund tycoon he is.

Stephen Kinzer