Best 1175 quotes in «speech quotes» category

She wished she could talk as he did. His speech was so quick and easy. It sounded as if he liked her and was not the least afraid she would not like him, though he was only a common moor boy, in patched clothes and with a funny face and a rough, rusty-red head.

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

Silence is a form of communication. Speech divides us.

Silence is the speech of the spiritual seeker.

Silence is never-ending speech. Vocal speech obstructs the other speech of silence. In silence one is in intimate contact with the surroundings. Language is only a medium for communicating one's thoughts to another. Silence is ever speaking.

Silence is safer than speech.

Silence is the only language of the realized. Practice moderation in speech.

Silence is most powerful. Speech is always less powerful than silence.

Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.

Silence is the speech of love, The music of the spheres above.

Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.

Silence sweeter is than speech.

Since 1972, I've been going around making speeches on the Everglades.

Since 1972, Ive been going around making speeches on the Everglades. No matter how poor my eyes are, I can still talk. Ill talk about the Everglades at the drop of a hat. Whoever wants me to talk, Ill come over and tell them about the necessity of preserving the Everglades.

Since consciousness is the basis of all reality, any shift in consciousness changes every aspect of our reality. Reality is created by consciousness differentiating into cognition, moods, emotions, perceptions, behavior, speech, social interactions, environment, interaction with the forces of nature, and biology. As consciousness evolves, these different aspects of consciousness also change.

Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps.

Slow down, especially at the beginning of a speech. You'll get the audience's attention by pausing.

Socrates, when informed of some derogating speeches one had used concerning him behind his back, made only this facetious reply, "Let him beat me too when I am absent.

So far as I am concerned I have no doctrinaire belief in free speech. In the interest of the war it is necessary to sacrifice some of it.

So I am hoping my second outing to your wonderful university turns out differently, because it would be highly embarrassing if I said, “Good evening Yaleites” or “Yalers”, or whatever you guys are called, and got stuck at Yaaaaa…. That wouldn’t make for much of a speech.

Someday we'll learn the whole story of why George W. Bush brushed off that intelligence briefing of Aug. 6, 2001, 'Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.' But surely a big distraction was the major speech he was readying for delivery on Aug. 9, his first prime-time address to the nation.

Sometimes you meet yourself on the road before you have a chance to learn the appropriate greeting. Faced with your own possibilities, the hard part is knowing a speech is not required. All you have to say is yes.

Songs won't save the planet, but neither will books or speeches.

Sound is a subtle form of speech and then more subtle than sound is silence and that's like the realm of being.

Speakers' nerves affect them in various ways. Some tremble, some become frenzied. I lose all confidence, and suffer from a leaden oppression that makes me wonder why I ever agreed to speak at all; the Tomb and the Conqueror Worm seem preferable to delivering the stupid and piffling speech I have so carefully prepared.

Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.

Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.

Speak only endearing speech, speech that is welcomed. Speech, when it brings no evil to others, is pleasant.

Speech is the best show a man puts on.

Speech is the mirror of action.

Speech writers are more vulnerable to vanity than any other group of people in Washington.

Speeches are not magic and there is no great speech without great policy.

Speech has been given to man to disguise his thoughts.

Speech may be silver but silence is golden. Traders with the golden touch do not talk about their success.

Speeches are more important in politics than talking points, as a rule, and are better remembered.

Speeches in our culture are the vacuum that fills a vacuum.

Speech is of time, silence is of eternity.

Speech may be barren; but it is ridiculous to suppose that silence is always brooding on a nestful of eggs.

Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.

Speaking is a beautiful folly; with that man dances over all things.

Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounc'd it to you, trippingly on the tongue.

Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.

Speech belongs half to the speaker, half to the listener. The latter must prepare to receive it according to the motion it takes.

Speeches and me don't get along sometimes. It is kind of like putting a tie too tight on my neck. I'm going to do whatever feels right.

Speech happens to not be his language.

Speech is the small change of silence.

Speech is too often not the art of concealing thought, but of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal.

Stand there, damn'd meddling villain, and be silent; For if thou utt'rest but a single word, A cough or hem, to cross me in my speech, I'll send thy cursed spirit from the earth, To bellow with the damn'd!

Stand-up comedy and comedy in general is the ultimate form of free speech, because you get to poke holes in all the pretentious bubbles politicians and pundits and popes and pretenders try to float over our heads.

Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time tells the story of a cosmologist whose speech is interrupted by a little old lady who informs him that the universe rests on the back of a turtle. Ah, yes, madame, the scientist replies, but what does the turtle rest on? The old lady shoots back: You can't trick me, young man. It's nothing but turtles, turtles, turtles, all the way down.