Speech Quotes - Page 23

• All work and no plagiarism makes a dull speech.

  Jacob Braude

  Art, Dull, Entertainment

  Jacob M. Braude (1975). “Braude's Handbook of Stories for Toastmasters and Speakers”, Prentice Hall

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• All fear of 'offensive' speech is bourgeois and reactionary. Historically, profane or bawdy language was common in both the upper and the lower classes, who lived together in rural areas amid the untidy facts of nature. Notions of propriety and decorum come to the fore in urbanized periods ruled by an expanding middle class, which is obsessed with cleanliness, respectability, and conformism.

  Camille Paglia

  Class, Together, Rural Areas

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• It is no solution to define words as violence or prejudice as oppression, and then by cracking down on words or thoughts pretend that we are doing something about violence and oppression. No doubt it is easier to pass a speech code or hate-crimes law and proclaim the streets safer than actually to make the streets safer, but the one must never be confused with the other... Indeed, equating "verbal violence" with physical violence is a treacherous, mischievous business.

  Jonathan Rauch

  Hate, Confused, Law

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• The First Amendment was designed to protect offensive speech, because nobody ever tries to ban the other kind.

  Mike Godwin

  Freedom Of Speech, Trying, Firsts

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• the full analysis of the notions of saying something and understanding what one said inevitably involves a concept which, as I will show in detail, essentially corresponds to the Cartesian idea of thought.

  Zeno Vendler

  Thinking, Thoughtful, Ideas

  Zeno Vendler (1972). “Res Cogitans: An Essay in Rational Psychology”, Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press

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• Speech and prose are not the same thing. They have different wave-lengths, for speech moves at the speed of light, where prose moves at the speed of the alphabet, and must be consecutive and grammatical and word-perfect. Prose cannot gesticulate. Speech can sometimes do nothing more.

  James Kenneth Stephen

  Moving, Light, Perfect

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• Song is the licensed medium for bawling in public things too silly or sacred to be uttered in ordinary speech.

  Oliver Herford

  Song, Silly, Ordinary

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Ohio Governor John Kasich became the 16th Republican to announce that he is running for president. During his speech he referred to Jesus Christ, which is ironic because so did Americans when they heard another Republican was running for president.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Running, Jesus, Ohio

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• In a speech in South Carolina, Donald Trump responded to criticisms from Senator Lindsey Graham by giving out Graham's personal cellphone number. Graham knew something was up when he saw he had more than one missed call.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Numbers, Giving, Criticism

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• In an interview, Hillary Clinton said she likes nearly every flavor of ice cream. When he heard this, Chris Christie said 'Hey, she stole my speech.'

  Conan O'Brien

  Ice Cream, Hey, Flavor

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• When we speak freely, let us speak plainly, for plain speech is wholesome; especially, plain speech about public affairs and public men.

  Albert J. Nock

  Men, Speak, Affair

  "Free Speech and Plain Language". The Atlantic Monthly, January 1936.

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• America comes with both rights and responsibilities. You have, for example, the right to free speech, but you have the responsibility to not yell 'fire' in a crowded theater. If you don't live up to that responsibility, you face certain consequences. It's a simple but effective formula. Unfortunately, tenured professors are completely insulated from it. They can scream fire in their classrooms all they want - and then hide behind their tenure if anyone questions them on it.

  Glenn Beck

  Responsibility, Simple, America

  Glenn Beck (2012). “Cowards: What Politicians, Radicals, and the Media Refuse to Say”, p.238, Simon and Schuster

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• There are often multiple sources for some famous statements by King; as a professional speaker and minister he used some significant phrases with only slight variation many times in his
  essays, books, and his speeches to different audiences.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Kings, Book, Different

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• Freedom of speech and the press must be complete. But then freedom of association must be complete too.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Freedom Of Speech, Association, Presses

  V. I. Lenin (2008). “Lenin on Literature and Art”, p.24, Wildside Press LLC

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• One could construe the life of man as a great discourse in which the various people represent different parts of speech (the same might apply to states).

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Men, People, Might

  Soren Kierkegaard (2015). “Papers and Journals”, p.62, Penguin UK

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• I believe in the complete freedom of thought and speech - alike for the humblest man and the mightiest, and in the utmost freedom of conduct that is consistent with living in organized
  society.

  H. L. Mencken

  Believe, Men, Consistent

  "What I Believe", The Forum 84 (p. 139), September, 1930.

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• Be checked for silence,
  But never taxed for speech.

  William Shakespeare

  Advice, Silence

  1604-5 Countess to Bertram. All'sWellThat EndsWell, act1, sc.1, l.64-5.

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• If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false statement I could never stay there five minutes. But why come out? The streetis as false as the church, and when I get to my house, or to my manners, or to my speech, I have not got away from the lie.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Lying, House, Society

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1883). “The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”

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• But a public oration is an escapade, a non-committal, an apology, a gag, and not a communication, not a speech, not a man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Communication, Apology, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.71

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• Our culture, therefore, must not omit the arming of the man. Let him hear in season, that he is born into the state of war, and that the commonwealth and his own well-being require that he should not go dancing in the weeds of peace, but warned, self- collected, and neither defying nor dreading the thunder, let him take both reputation and life in his hand, and, with perfect urbanity, dare the gibbet and the mob by the absolute truth of his speech, and the rectitude of his behaviour.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Weed, War, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.74, 谷月社

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• Speech is the mirror of the mind.

  Seneca the Younger

  Mirrors, Mind

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• There is no doubt about it: we are judged by our language as much as (perhaps more than) we are judged by our appearance, our choice of associates, our behavior. Language communicates so much more than ideas; it reveals our intelligence, our knowledge of a topic, our creativity, our ability to think, our self-confidence, et cetera.

  Marlene Caroselli

  Leadership, Creativity, Self Confidence

  Marlene Caroselli, William J. Rothwell, Dale C. Brandenburg (1990). “The Language of leadership”, Center for Professional development

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• Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Peaceful, Mind, Wish

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2003). “The Power of Positive Thinking: 10 Traits for Maximum Results”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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• Don't have conversations taking place in empty space. Weave in background details of where the action (dialogue is a form of "action") is taking place. Don't have invisible people talking, either. Let the reader see them as they speak - their facial expressions and gestures. And by all means "cue" the speeches to the speakers.

  Lee Wyndham

  Writing, Mean, Space

  Lee Wyndham (1972). “Writing for children and teen-agers”, Writer's Digest Books

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• The gentleman desires to be halting in speech but quick in action.

  Confucius

  Gentleman, Desire, Action

  Confucius (1979). “Lunyu”

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