Quotes of: Speech Keyword

I think it's appropriate in America for anyone to speak out and say what their reaction is to the president's State of the Union speech.

Jim Jordan

A man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself - like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.

Jean Kerr

Humans have changed little over time. We think we've invented the modern world but they were making better speeches 2,000 years ago and grappling with issues of empire and terrorism.

Robert Harris

I'm just wondering, folks, if I gave a speech on anti-capitalism, do you think I could be named Person of the Year by 'TIME Magazine?'

Rush Limbaugh

Dr. Blandine Bentham: Cigarette smoking calms the nerves and, uh, gives you confidence.

The King's Speech

King Edward VIII: Haven't I any rights? King George VI: Many privileges. King Edward VIII: Not the same thing.

The King's Speech

[after the battle and Boromir's speech] Boromir: [to Faramir] Remember today, little brother.

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

Lt. Col. Frank Slade: Tickets. Money. Speech. Old Washington joke... from my days with Lyndon.

Scent of a Woman

Stephen Hawking: [speaking for the first time on his speech-generating device] My name is Stephen Hawking.

The Theory of Everything

Elections are a competition with only one winner. Giving more money to the opponent every time one speaks on behalf of a favored candidate discourages the speech that triggers the matching funds.

Bradley A. Smith

In every stump speech I give, I speak about the fact that people who dream and achieve enormous success do not make us poorer - they make us better off.

Mitt Romney

I remember in school once the teacher gave us a speech about anyone can make it if they try, and then she looked at me and said. 'I don't know what you are going to do, Georgie.'

George Foreman

I love eulogies. They are the most moving kind of speech because they attempt to pluck meaning from the fog, and on short order, when the emotions are still ragged and raw and susceptible to leaps.

Peggy Noonan

For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of adding a vocal sound (speech) to the hammering of the first tribal music.

Eugenio Montale

People often complain that music is too ambiguous, that what they should think when they hear it is so unclear, whereas everyone understands words. With me, it is exactly the opposite, and not only with regard to an entire speech but also with indivi...

Felix Mendelssohn

Dr. Lester: She's got her doctorate in speech impedimentology from Case Western.

Being John Malkovich

Dr. Lester: I've been very lonely in my isolated tower of indecipherable speech.

Being John Malkovich

Condoleezza Rice, the national security adviser, is right there... she's in town because her father was at Johnson Smith College... and she was delivering a speech there.

Al Michaels

A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.

Adlai E. Stevenson

I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.

Aeschylus

Martin Luther King's 'I Have a Dream' speech always sends me down some path, some trajectory of some creative idea.

Abigail Washburn