Quotes by Speech I think J.D. Salinger is correct in granting no interviews, and in making no speeches Patricia Highsmith interviewsspeechthinking All the most powerful speeches ever made point to a better future. Patrick Dixon speechpowerfulmade My father always said that too many words cheapened the value of a man's speech. Patricia Briggs speechmenfather Learned conversation is either the affectation of the ignorant or the profession of the mentally unemployed. Oscar Wilde ignorantspeechconversation When people talk to us about others they are usually dull. When they talk to us about themselves they are nearly always interesting. Oscar Wilde speechpeopleinteresting Don't give a speech. Put on a show. Paul Arden speechinspirationalgiving When there is official censorship it is a sign that speech is serious. Where there is none, it is pretty certain that the official spokesmen have all the loud-speakers. Paul Goodman censorshipspeechserious The President didn't offer any clarity in his latest speech about what he would do to tackle our nation's debt before it tackles us and it's still not clear how he'll keep Medicare from going bankrupt. One thing is clear though, Barack Obama isn't interested in governing or putting forward solutions to fix our nation's problems. Paul Ryan debtspeechpresident 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. Pearl Cleage speechknowinginspiration A great speech is literature. Peggy Noonan great-speechspeechliterature I should say here, because some in Washington like to dream up ways to control the Internet, that we don't need to 'control' free speech, we need to control ourselves. Peggy Noonan speechdreamneeds Ted Sorrenson, JFK's presidential speech writer, when asked how it came about that he wrote the "ask not what you can do..." speech, he would answer 'ask not.' Peggy Noonan presidentialspeechanswers Speeches are not magic and there is no great speech without great policy. Peggy Noonan policymagicspeech Speeches are more important in politics than talking points, as a rule, and are better remembered. Peggy Noonan speechimportanttalking There is no reason for the government to limit political speech. Penn Jillette speechpoliticalgovernment He gave man speech, and speech created thought, Which is the measure of the universe. Percy Bysshe Shelley universespeechmen Songs won't save the planet, but neither will books or speeches. Pete Seeger speechsongbook I’ve found that festivals are a relatively painless way to meet people and make a few points that need making, without having to hit them over the head with too many speeches. Pete Seeger speechpeopleneeds Native speakers of a language know intuitively whether a sentence is grammatical or not. They usually cannot specify exactly what is wrong, and very possibly they make the same mistakes in their own speech, but they know-unconsciously, not as a set of rules they learned in school-when a sentence is incorrect. Peter Farb speechmistakeschool Speakers who have grown up in the American community unconsciously know its rules about taking turns in conversations-in the same way that they know the rules of grammar and the rules about appropriate speech in various situations. Peter Farb speechcommunityway«3132333435363738394041»
