#speech

In rendering its decision in our case, the Supreme Court equated money with speech because these days it takes the first to make yourself heard. ↗

— James L. Buckley

#case #court #days #decision #equated

The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve. ↗

— Buddha

#grain #ones #sieve #speech #their

I have learned that it is far easier to write a speech about good advertising than it is to write a good ad. ↗

— Leo Burnett

#ad #advertising #easier #far #good

A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#brings #conversation #dearly #essentials #how

Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever...I saw nothing without seeing it, I heard nothing without hearing it, and felt nothing without feeling it. It looked from every star, it smiled in every calm, breathed in every wind, and moved in every storm. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#beauty-in-literature #freedom #freedom-of-expression #freedom-of-speech #freedom-of-thought

The color of the mountains is Buddha's body; the sound of running water is his great speech. ↗

— Dogen

#buddha #color #great #his #mountains

No matter how bad things are, they can always be worse. So what if my stroke left me with a speech impediment? Moses had one, and he did all right. ↗

— Kirk Douglas

#bad #did #had #how #impediment

Since 1972, I've been going around making speeches on the Everglades. ↗

— Marjory Stoneman Douglas

#been #everglades #going #i #making

I don't care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your head, you're also writing your Oscar acceptance speech. ↗

— Nora Ephron

#also #care #down #first #head

You know, everybody believes in free speech until you start questioning them about it. ↗

— Larry Flynt

#believes #everybody #free #free speech #know