63 quotes found
“A good traveler leaves no tracks. Good speech lacks fault-finding.”
“My father always said that too many words cheapened the value of a man's speech.”
“Words', he said, 'is oh such a twitch-tickling problem to me all my life. So you must simply try to be patient and stop squibbling. As I am telling you before, I know exactly what words I am wantin...”
“It's the words we whisper to ourselves that make us who we are.”
“Naming enables the noble-minded to speak, and speech enables the noble-minded to act. Therefore, the noble-minded are anything but careless in speech.”
“speech to him was a task, a battle, words mustered behind his beard and issued one at a time, heavy and square like tanks.”
“Think of negative speech as verbal pollution. And that's what I've been doing: visualizing insults and gossip as a dark cloud, maybe one with some sulfur dioxide. Once you've belched it out, you ca...”
“Speech, so a wise old Frenchman said to me once, is an invention of man's to prevent him from thinking. It is also an infallible means of discovering that which he wishes to hide.”
“The playwright's rendition of Abraham Lincoln remembers a pitiful little paddlewheel he saw that he could only generate steam to EITHER blow the ship's whistle OR move the wheel. Just as the little...”
“For computer communications, computers talk in little bursts. They're not continuous like speech.”
“Private religious speech can't be discriminated against. It has to be treated equally with secular speech.”
“Lately I've been believing that music predates speech.”
“Music is well said to be the speech of angels.”
“Expressive speech, with modulation in pitch and volume, and a minimum of noticeable pauses, boosts credibility and enhances the impression of intelligence.”
“Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.”
“The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is beside the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech.”
“The line is a way of framing poetry. All verse is measured by lines. The poetic line immediately announces its difference from everyday speech and prose.”
“Be sure that you speak with unfeigned lips.”
“A leader whose speech is prepared by others is not a leader; he is just an empty and stupid bottle! Use your own ideas and your own brain; write your own speech, just like Gandhi, Churchill or Nehr...”
“Speech was given to man to conceal his thoughts.”
