Quotes of: Speech Keyword

Sometimes, a word succeeds beyond the wildest dreams of its creators, like a virus sent into the world to infect common speech.

The Eyre Affair

The speech of God’s beautiful woman is a fountain of life to those around her.

Beautiful in God's Eyes

In a victory speech, I like to thank the opposition, because without their help, I couldn’t have won.

99 Cents For Some Nonsense

I don’t need another ‘adversity builds character’ speech, Darren. That man is a chauvinistic pig. Where’s your adversity?” Darren raised a brow. “I’m looking at it.

Apprentice

I prayed aloud, less to plead for divine favor than to intimidate the tribe with articulate speech.

The Aleph and Other Stories

Milton's learned vocabulary [...] and his distant perspectives, represent the authoritative unintelligibility of the parents' speech as heard by the child.

John Milton: Introductions

Anybody who talks about the future is a bastard, it's the present that counts. Invoking posterity is like making speeches to worms.

Journey to the End of the Night

The streetlight forge speech bubbles of illumination in the air. A faint glow from the moon casts eerie shadows behind the dark clouds.

Shadow Embraced

They (teenage boys)don’t really listen to speeches or talks. They absorb incrementally, through hours and hours of observation.

Stories I Only Tell My Friends

We are all worms, But I do believe that I am a glow worm.

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

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.

Madame Bovary

Sometimes I wonder what happened to great speeches, but then I turn on the TV and I’m in wonder at how good my candidate looks.

Some Inspiration for the Overenthusiastic

speech to him was a task, a battle, words mustered behind his beard and issued one at a time, heavy and square like tanks.

Surfacing

We speak not only to tell other people what we think, but to tell ourselves what we think. Speech is a part of thought.

Seeing Voices

Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.

Silence Dogood, The Busy-Body, and Early Writings

The most important step in developing skillful speech is to think before speaking.

Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living

You are addressed by the way you dress. Your attire reflects your sense of value or taste and of course, your speech either makes or mars you.

The Prince and the Pauper

ARE YOU A MOVIE STAR? Prerequisite for Laziness: Creativity, award winning actor/actress, convincing speech

Profound Vers-A-Tales

His forward voice now is to speak well of his friend. His backward voice is to utter foul speeches and to detract.

The Tempest

I have decided to stick to love...Hate is too great a burden to bear.

A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

In speech he stretched out his vowel sounds to give his mouth a rest before the next consonant.

The Thirteenth Tale