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President Obama and Mitt Romney both gave commencement speeches over the last few days. Obama was like, 'You can be whatever you want to be,' while Romney was like, 'I can be whatever you want me to be.'

Private religious speech can't be discriminated against. It has to be treated equally with secular speech.

Rappers should be forced to rhyme in their acceptance speeches.

Ragamuffins are simple, direct and honest. Their speech is unaffected. They are slow to claim, "God told me..." As they make their way through the world, they bear wordless, prophetic witness.

Punk to me was a form of free speech. It was a moment when suddenly all kinds of strange voices that no reasonable person could ever have expected to hear in public were being heard all over the place.

Religious speech is extreme, emotional, and motivational. It is anti-literal, relying on metaphor, allusion, and other rhetorical devices, and it assumes knowledge within a community of believers.

Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue.

Remember that thought is speech before God.

Rising prices or wages do not cause inflation; they only report it. They represent an essential form of economic speech, sincemoney isjust another form of information.

Regulation has never really worked unless it's hate speech libel etc.

Repeating then is in every one, in every one their being and their feeling and their way of realising everything and every one comes out of them in repeating. More and more then every one comes to be clear to some one.

Satire dramatizes better than any other use of it, the inherent contradiction of free speech that it functions best when what is being said is at its most outrageous.

Say it again,” he says. “That whole drawn-out speech?” I remember something about a solar system, but I’m too light-headed to recite the entire thing all over again. He steps closer. “No. The part about you fallin’ for me.

Resist this war on God, freedom of religion and freedom of speech.

Searching for the Truth through words and speech is like sticking your head in a bowl of glue.

Seven wealthy towns contend for Homer dead, Through which the living Homer begged his bread

Rude am I in my speech, And little blessed with the soft phrase of peace.

Several speeches were made by the chiefs during the council, all expressive in the highest degree of their friendly disposition towards our government, and their conduct in every particular manifested the sincerity of their declarations.

She realises that if she is to save the show she is going to have to improvise a rousing speech, one of the many Henry V moments that make up her working life.

Silence is a form of communication. Speech divides us.

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

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

Silence is the speech of the spiritual seeker.

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

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.

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.

Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.

Silence sweeter is than speech.

Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.

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

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Speech is the best show a man puts on.

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

Speech is external thought, and thought internal speech.