Quotes by Speech I write in a slangy colloquial speech that has not been common in the Israeli tradition of writing, and that is one of the things that gets lost a little in translation. Etgar Keret speechwritinglittles While the Internet is censored in China, the censorship is allowing a level of speech to take place that's unprecedented. Ethan Zuckerman censorshiplevelsspeech 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 aggravationspeechsound You don't make your words true by embellishing them with religious lace. In making your speech sound more religious, it becomes less true. Eugene H. Peterson speechreligioussound Deliberation is not a particular type of speech, but a political act of collective decision-making in consideration of consequences. F. David Mathews speechpoliticaldecision Some members of Congress ought to have their mouths taped instead of their speeches. Evan Esar congressspeechmouths Good dialogue is not real speech-it's the illusion of real speech. Ernest Hemingway illusionspeechreal I have no technical psychological interest; it is drama, speech,and events that interest me. Evelyn Waugh speecheventsdrama Speech has both an individual and a social side, and we cannot conceive of one without the other. Ferdinand de Saussure individualspeechsides Within speech, words are subject to a kind of relation that is independent of the first and based on their linkage: these are syntagmatic relations, of which I have spoken. Ferdinand de Saussure independentspeechfirsts Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again. F. Scott Fitzgerald arrangementsnotesspeech I have reached the conclusion, a bit late perhaps, that speeches should be short. Fidel Castro latespeechshould What is one man's hate speech is another man's poetry. Flemming Rose speechhatemen There is no question that under the Equal Rights Amendment there will be debates at times, indecision at times, litigation at times. Has anyone proposed that we rescind the First Amendment on free speech because there is too much litigation over it? Has anyone suggested the same for the Fourteenth Amendment I don't suppose there has ever been a constitutional amendment with so much litigation? Frances Farenthold democracyspeechrights Maybe poets express more directly a sense of sympathy for other human beings. Painting is a little bit more of a retreat from human beings in real life; painting is more about the extreme moments when speech doesn't help anymore. Francesco Clemente speechreallittles I’ll always marvel at the liveliness of southern speech-so full of metaphor and hyperbole, quirks and vividness. Frances Mayes metaphorspeechsouthern 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. Frances Hodgson Burnett clothesspeechboys Persecution for opinion is the master vice of society. Frances Wright opinionspeechvices Eloquence: saying the proper thing and stopping. Francois de La Rochefoucauld eloquencestoppingspeech Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order. Francis Bacon speechspeakorder«89101112131415161718»
