I love public speakers who give moving speeches—particularly if they bring boxes, packing tape, and dollies. The last local politician I heard speak was so moving that I took up residence in a new county.

Verse, singing, and speech have a common origin.

…as of this moment there’s the police department way, the federal law enforcement way, the military way… and my way. If you want me to function at my best then you’re going to have to...

So yes, I say things I regret constantly, and I just can’t help it.

the matter is as it is in all other cases: if it is naturally in you to be a good orator, a notable orator you will be when you have acquired knowledge and practice …

Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to be silent, and solitude, that’s what I’ve had to make the best of.

I thought ‘The King’s Speech’ was great.

Keeping demons from this world is your mandate, a mandate from heaven. And a mandate from heaven isn’t something you can just ignore.

What cannot be said above all must not be silenced but written.

Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.

I heard Mr. Ingersoll many years ago in Chicago. The hall seated 5,000 people; every inch of standing-room was also occupied; aisles and platform crowded to overflowing. He held that vast audience for three hours...

If a man hasn’t found something he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.

The very word “secrecy” is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings…Our way of life...

Know everything. Say nothing.

Speech belongs half to the speaker, half to the listener.

It is one light which beams out of a thousand stars. It is one soul which animates all men.

This story shall the good man teach his son;And Crispin Crispian shall ne’er go by,From this day to the ending of the world,But we in it shall be remembered-We few, we happy few, we band...

Speech is the voice of the heart.

Holly steps back. Being warned about a ghost and seeing him are not the same. ‘What did they do to you?’Some of the Anchorites laugh. Hugo looks back at his long-ago lover. ‘They’-he looks about...

We are not going to always agree with each other, but we should have the dignity to always respect each other’s freedom of speech and of choice. Democracy is practiced when we have respect for...

We no longer have a sufficiently high estimate of ourselves when we communicate. Our true experiences are not garrulous. They could not communicate themselves if they wanted to: they lack words. We have already grown...

Pull yourself together, Detective. You’re embarrassing yourself, and more imprtant, you’re embarrassing me.””They’re going to do it outside. In public.””So the fuck what?””Public,” Peabody said, head still between her knees.”You’re being honored by this department...

It’s the words we whisper to ourselves that make us who we are.

… she had uttered these words simply in order to provoke a reply in certain other words, which she seemed, indeed, to wish to hear spoken, but, from prudence, would let her friend be the...

Not how it is meant. Law is defined by its effect rather than its intention, and its chief affect his accusation, the intimation of less-than.

Be a craftsman in speech that thou mayest be strong, for the strength of one is the tongue, and speech is mightier than all fighting.

Self-consciousness kills communication.

Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.

I really look forward to that insane hour that we spend together. I really do.

Sometimes it’s not what you say, Valkyrie, it’s just the fact that you’re saying it.

Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we have to shout.

Speech is a rolling-mill that always thins out the sentiment.

All that they lacked was the gift that descended upon the chosen disciples at Pentecost, in tongues of flame; symbolizing, it would seem, not the power of speech in foreign and unknown languages, but that...

The word covers a much wider range of speech than threats. It goes beyond the cyber-stalking that proponents were worried about.

We are tired of running , tired of traveling. It is time for us to be together in a world where your kind of evil does not exist.” Lucan growled at her, but she continued,...

Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.Almost everything–all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure–these things...

Not being able to read and write music is not the same as being illiterate in speech and writing.

Men do not long continue to think what they have forgotten how to say.

that your power of commandwith simple language wasone of the magnificent things ofour century.(from the poem: result)

Everyone has their own ways of expression. I believe we all have a lot to say, but finding ways to say it is more than half the battle.

Once the people have been deluded into believing that speeches and voting are the only acceptable tools by which to affect change in their nation, those who are in control no longer need to worry...

I now know that I have a speech that’s going to go down in the annals of American presidential campaigns,

Speech is the resuscitation breath for living corpses and the water of life for those who want to live forever.

He stopped, feeling lonely in his long speech.

Stage fright is very common and could be overcomed through step by step processes, but stuttering is a fright that takes time to conquer.

Don’t exercise your freedom of speech until you have exercised your freedom of thought.

Yawns are not the only infectious things out there besides germs.Giggles can spread from person to person.So can blushing.But maybe the most powerful infectious thing is the act of speaking the truth.

You don’t have to explain something you haven’t said.

Speech is the gift of all, but the thought of few.

The essence of America – that which really unites us — is not ethnicity, or nationality or religion – it is an idea — and what an idea it is: That you can come from...