Speech Quotes - page 11

I've always written. At the age of six or seven, I would get sheets of A4 paper and fold them in half, cut the edges to make a little eight-page booklet, break it up into squares and put in little stick men with little speech bubbles, and I'd have a spy story, a space story and a football story. (Ian Rankin)
Break the ice, or draw that which lives in the dimness out into the full light of speech - what happens is the same: that which is now seen and now grasped is not, in its clearness, the shadowy thing that was. View quote
Jens Peter Jacobsen
George Orwell's contention was that it is a sure sign of trouble when things can no longer be called by their right names and described in plain, forthright speech. View quote
Christopher Lasch
English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite. View quote
Michael Caine
The two men were greedily hunched over the table, like two wolves disputing a carcass, but their muttered speech in the echoing hall resembled more the grunting of pigs. One was less than a wolf: he was a public prosecutor. The other was more than a pig, he was a chief commissioner of police. View quote
Jan Neruda
Let me say and not mourn: the world lives in the death of speech and sings there. View quote
Wendell Berry
For I conclude that the enemy is not lipstick, but guilt itself; that we deserve lipstick, if we want it, AND free speech; we deserve to be sexual AND serious--or whatever we please; we are entitled to wear cowboy boots to our own revolution. View quote
Naomi Wolf
Prescriptive grammar has spread linguistic insecurity like a plague among English speakers for centuries, numbs us to the aesthetic richness of non-standard speech, and distracts us from attending to genuine issues of linguistic style in writing. View quote
John McWhorter
Texting is fingered speech. Now we can write the way we talk. View quote
John McWhorter
Speech is a very important aspect of being human. A whisper doesn't cut it. View quote
James Earl Jones
When I was in New York after I left the Army, I studied for two years at the American Theater Wing, studied acting, which involved dance and fencing and speech classes and history of theater, all that. (James Earl Jones)
Speech is the best show a man puts on. View quote
Benjamin Lee Whorf
I grew up under Communism so we could only learn Russian, and then when Communism fell in 1989 we could learn a few more things and have the freedom to travel and the freedom of speech - and the freedom of dreaming, really. View quote
Petra Nemcova
Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech. View quote
Robert Menzies
Speech has both an individual and a social side, and we cannot conceive of one without the other. View quote
Ferdinand de Saussure
Outside speech, the association that is made in the memory between words having something in common creates different groups, series, families, within which very diverse relations obtain but belonging to a single category: these are associative relations. View quote
Ferdinand de Saussure
Irony is Fate's most common figure of speech. View quote
Trevanian
Censor the body and you censor breath and speech at the same time. Write yourself. Your body must be heard. View quote
Helene Cixous
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. View quote
Amy Waldman
The first things I remember drawing were battles - big sheets of paper covered in terrible scenes of carnage - though when you looked closely there were little jokes and speech bubbles and odd things going on in the background. View quote
Anthony Browne
The Princess's so-called 'time and space speech' at the end of '93 about a year after the formal separation, looking back on it it's called her retirement from public life but we've seen in fact it's nothing of the kind. (Anthony Holden)
As to Magyar, I think that my speech was incorrect, inappropriate. View quote
Bela Kun
Talk to people no one else is talking to. Who would have thought that giving a speech at a funeral at age 12 would introduce me to a man who would introduce me to my first business contact who would introduce me to several other important people in my life. That's luck. That's randomness. View quote
Ben Casnocha
In terms of political contributions, the free speech rights of corporations I don't think deserve the same protections as the free speech rights of real living, breathing, voting humans. View quote
Chris Coons
While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music, I really don't think of speech as so far from song. View quote
David Antin