63 quotes found
“I don't have an English accent because this is what English sounds like when spoken properly.”
“Always speak the truth - think before you speak - and write it down afterwards.”
“And what little she allowed herself to say was said in a strained tone, in which her ingrained timidity paralysed her tendency to freedom and audacity of speech.”
“Positive vocabulary is like good soil. By speaking and being positive we can enrich the lives of others.”
“Its quite simple," she says, while Rosentreter wonders, not without anxiety, whether she can read his thoughts. "You draw air into your lungs, you raise your soft palate, air passes over your vocal...”
“Were not dreamers. Were awaking from a dream turning into a nightmare. Were not destroying anything. Were watching the system destroy itself.”
“Every public speaker likes his hearer to imagine his oratory as an unpremeditated gift of nature, and not the result of prolonged and patient study [Lionel Logue said]”
“That which is repeated too often becomes insipid and tedious.”
“Let him now speak or else hereafter for ever hold his peace.”
“His speech was a fine sample on the whole Of rhetoric which the learn'd call "rigmarole."”
“Speech is silvern silence is golden.”
“He mouths a sentence as curs mouth a bone.”
“A sophistical rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.”
“The hare-brained chatter of irresponsible frivolity.”
“For that man is detested by me as the gates of hell whose outward words conceal his inmost thoughts.”
“His speech flowed from his tongue sweeter than honey.”
“For God's sake let us freely hear both sides!”
“Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth and every other man has a right to knock him down for it.”
“Woe unto you when all men shall speak well of vou!”
“They think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.”
