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• I want to know what they look like, their height, and colouring, physique and speech pattens.

  Colleen McCullough

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  Tags in Speech, Like

• I will be brief. Not nearly so brief as Salvador Dali, who gave the world’s shortest speech. He said I will be so brief I have already finished, and he sat down.

  Gene Fowler

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  Tags in Person, Shortest, Speech

• They’ve got this crazy actor who’s 82 years old up there in a suit. I was a mayor, and they’re probably thinking I know how to give a speech, but even when I was mayor I never gave speeches. I gave talks.

  Clint Eastwood

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• The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.

  Clifton Fadiman

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• In speech after speech on his health care plan, the President has tried to convince us that what he is proposing will be good for America. But, how can it be good for America if it raises taxes by a half trillion dollars and costs a trillion dollars or more to implement?

  Scott Brown

  Topics in Health

  Tags in Speech

• I thought I would lose, so I didn’t prepare a speech.

  E. L. Doctorow

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  Tags in Self, Speech

• Private religious speech can’t be discriminated against. It has to be treated equally with secular speech.

  Samuel Alito

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• 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.

  Christopher Lasch

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  Tags in Speech, Trouble, Things

• Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

  Salman Rushdie

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• Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.

  Edith Wharton

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  Tags in Silence, Speech

• The message that President Obama delivered in his speech at Notre Dame was: morality is immoral. Pro-life is the extremist position, not a moral position. Yet we should compromise and work to reduce abortions. Where’s the compromise between life and death – and why work to reduce the number of them occurring if there’s nothing wrong with them?

  Rush Limbaugh

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  Tags in Speech

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

  Yanni

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  Tags in Illiterate, Speech

• Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language.

  Roman Jakobson

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  Tags in Light, Speech

• The task is to investigate speech sounds in relation to the meanings with which they are invested, i.e., sounds viewed as signifiers, and above all to throw light on the structure of the relation between sounds and meaning.

  Roman Jakobson

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  A fool’s speech is a bubble of air.

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  Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

  Ambrose Bierce

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• If Thomas Jefferson had heard us, he probably would have said, ‘We shouldn’t have free speech.’

  Robin Quivers

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  Tags in Free, Speech

• Eloquent speech is not from lip to ear, but rather from heart to heart.

  William Jennings Bryan

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• Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts.

  Charles De Talleyrand Perigord

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  Tags in Thoughts, Speech, Disguise

• Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech.

  Charles Bradlaugh

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  Tags in Better, Free, Speech