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Mitt Romney speaking to a $50,000-a-plate Republican fundraiser says he doesn't have to worry about the 47 per cent of Americans who don't pay tax. He was not counting on the smart phone recording his speech and then posting it on YouTube.

Monkeys who very sensibly refrain from speech, lest they should be set to earn their livings.

Most of us are reflecting life and not affecting it. Your inner speech mirrors your mind, and your mind mirrors God. If you do not change your thoughts, you haven't changed their activity. And if you do not change their activity, the conditions of your life cannot change, for they are only bearing witness to the inner action of your mind.

Most profoundly deaf people have speech that is very difficult to understand.

Mr President, I have decided not to speak the entire speech which I have.

Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.

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

Music... a kind of inarticulate, unfathomable speech, which leads to the edge of the Infinite.

Music has been called the speech of the angels; I will go farther and call it the speech of God Himself.

Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words.

Music is the inarticulate speech of the heart, which cannot be compressed into words, because it is infinite.

Music may be the activity that prepared our pre-human ancestors for speech communication and for the very cognitive, representational flexibility necessary to become humans.

My dad is my everything. He always had the craziest speeches for Kylie [Jenner] and me growing up, good words to live by.

My father always said that too many words cheapened the value of a man's speech.

My language! heavens!I am the best of them that speak this speech. Were I but where 'tis spoken.

My father and he had cemented one of those English friendships which begin by avoiding intimacies and eventually eliminate speech altogether.

My poems are more my silence than my speech. Just as music is a kind of quiet. Sounds are needed only to unveil the various layers of silence.

My point is there's a hidden Scotland in anyone who speaks the Northern Ireland speech. It's a terrific complicating factor, not just in Northern Ireland, but Ireland generally.

My power of speech, unimpeachable. Only 19 but my mind is older.

Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.

Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech.

Nature is a temple, where the living Columns sometimes breathe confusing speech; Man walks within these groves of symbols, each Of which regards him as a kindred thing.

Nature doesn't make long speeches.

Nobody is capable of of free speech unless he knows how to use language, and such knowledge is not a gift: it has to learned and worked at.

No machines will ever truly fully figure the brain out, because the brain's performance is constantly altered or else constrained by this inanimate, rogue artifact you can't control, namely, speech.

No glass renders a man's form or likeness so true as his speech.

None love to speak so much, when the mood of speaking comes, as they who are naturally taciturn.

No matter how much strong black coffee we drink, almost any after- dinner speech will counteract it.

No matter how bad things are, they can always be worse. So what if my stroke left me with a speech impediment? Moses had one, and he did all right.

Nothing shows the kind of fool you are as quick as your tongue.

No speech can stain what is noble by nature.

Not being able to read and write music is not the same as being illiterate in speech and writing.

No one ever complains about a speech being too short!

Not to be born surpasses thought and speech. The second best is to have seen the light and then go back quickly whence we came

Not telling is just as interesting as telling I have found. Why speech, that short verbal journey from inside to outside can be excrutiating under certain circumstances is fascinating.

Occasionally, the book tells stories that would likely grate on senior management – but that is what free speech is all about.

Now is the time to draw a clean, clear, bright line and say if you are engaging in speech over the Internet you do not have to check with your lawyer or your accountant. You are a free American, and you have the opportunity to engage in free speech over the Internet.

Obama has become too dependent on formal speeches and set town halls. His idea of mixing it up is taking off his jacket.

Of course, hate speech and racism have no place on Facebook

Now that the Court has declared money to be speech, I say we replace the current Court with some Ben Franklins, Thomas Jeffersons, George Washingtons, a couple of Susan B. Anthony's, Roosevelts, Hamiltons, a Sacajawea or two, and an Abe Lincoln to cover Scalia in full.

Obama still has work to do with the vision thing. Convincing voters that he has a credible, practical plan to turn the nation around is a process, not a speech.

Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave.

Of course; a nurse wouldn't have been quite so bold in her speech. Not to a duke's heir. Not even to a wealthy tradesman who held the power of her employment in his too-large hands.

O Lord, I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor since you have spoken to your servant. I am slow of speech and tongue.

Of the five rights listed in the First Amendment. - religion, speech, press, assembly, petition - the very first right protected is freely exercising our religion.

O my mind,Make your speech egoless.Then everyoneWill appreciate, admire and adore you.

Of what use is freedom of speech to those who fear to offend?

O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I!

One feels 'the dearth of human words, the roughness of mortal speech' in trying to describe things intangible.

One day I heard a speech of Hitler. In this speech he said that the German factory worker and the German labourer must make common cause with the German intellectual worker.