#speech

Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#human nature #itself #language #nature #none

No, and in fact I get a bit frustrated, because I'm actually quite good at one-liners, and I've had hundreds of them over the years, and they sink without trace, and I get very frustrated. Every party conference I really work on the speeches, and I always have two or three things I'm quite proud of, and no one ever remembers them. ↗

— Vince Cable

#always #because #bit #conference #ever

Any man who makes a speech more than six times a year is bound to repeat himself, not because he has little to say, but because he wants applause and the old stuff gets it. ↗

— William Feather

#applause #because #bound #gets #himself

Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately. ↗

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#attack #exists #fascist #freedom #freedom of speech

Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform. ↗

— Chanakya

#desires #divine #heart #mind #needed

John Howard Davies was not a very human person... if you made a mistake of any kind, any sort of pause in speech, he would treat you rather as if he was a schoolmaster. ↗

— Graham Chapman

#howard #human #john #kind #made

In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#any #country #free #free society #freedom

Man is born to dream, to be enlightened, to connect and to be fulfilled. Managers are too. ↗

— Stan Slap

#branding #branding-culture #keynote-speaker #keynote-speech #leadership-quotes

By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of censorship that by its very existence chills free speech. ↗

— Harry A. Blackmun

#chills #creates #deny #discretion #existence

My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe. ↗

— Jimmy Durante

#breathe #every #her #impediment #now