#speech

As a matter of fact, I didn't make a political speech outside of my state for 20 years. ↗

— Joe Biden

#i #make #matter #outside #political

Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#benefit #both #exercise #free #free speech

I talked to women who lived there, to get their speech patterns and outlook on life - and how narrow that is. ↗

— Ellen Burstyn

#how #i #life #lived #narrow

People make suggestions on what to say all the time. I'll give you an example; I don't read what's handed to me. People say, 'Here, here's your speech, or here's an idea for a speech.' They're changed. Trust me. ↗

— George W. Bush

#example #give #handed #here #i

I don't want to tell President Obama how to make a speech. He's a much better speech maker than I am. But I think always to tell the truth in a sometimes blatant way, even though it might be temporarily unpopular, is the best approach. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#am #approach #best #better #blatant

I gave a funny speech at my wife's birthday party, and I'm thinking, 'Hey, I've still got it.' ↗

— Larry David

#birthday party #funny #gave #got #hey

Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together. ↗

— Max Eastman

#chief #holds #laughter #society #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

#crazy #even #gave #give #got

We meet before the movie and she gives you charts with sounds on them and makes a tape of examples. While they are setting up the scene, I go with her to the trailer and we go through the scene and correct the speech. ↗

— Albert Finney

#charts #correct #examples #gives #go

Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#arrangement #never #notes #played #speech