#speech

Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#either #evidence #figures #longer #own

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

English is clipped in speech. Texas is exactly the opposite. ↗

— Michael Caine

#exactly #opposite #speech #texas

I grew up to have my father's looks, my father's speech patterns, my father's posture, my father's opinions, and my mother's contempt for my father. ↗

— Jules Feiffer

#father #grew #i #looks #mother

Whether it's people walking off 'The View' when Bill O'Reilly makes a statement about radical Islam or Juan Williams being fired for expressing his opinion, over-reaching political correctness is chipping away at the fundamental American freedoms of speech and expression. ↗

— Eric Cantor

#american #away #being #bill #chipping

I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise? ↗

— Federico Fellini

#betrayed #chaos #confusion #democratic #does

Democracy was supposed to champion freedom of speech, and yet the simple rules of table decorum could clamp down on the rights their forefathers had fought and died for. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#democracy #ettiquette #freedom #freedom-of-speech #funny

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#better #deep #eternity #good #lies