Corporations have free speech, but they can't speak like you and me. They don't have mouths or hands.
So many times, I have a speech ready but no dice. Always a bridesmaid, never a mother.
I was giving a speech one time, and the woman who introduced me said, 'Well, she used to be J. D. Salinger's girlfriend. I thought, 'God, is that all I've been?' I didn't want to be reduced to that.
Muslims (companions) misunderstood the speech of the Prophet on the day of Ghadeer.
I have Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. It has crippled my body and speech, but not my mind.
When speech is divorced from speaker and word from meaning, what is left is just ritual, language as ritual.
Speech is a rolling press that always amplifies one's emotions.
I have eight times online since January [2016] in which Hillary Clinton has had massive coughing fits in which she couldn't complete her speech. I've seen her lifted onto airplanes. And I don't know what's wrong with her.
The Chinese have an excellent proverb: "Be modest in speech, but excel in action.
So far as I am concerned I have no doctrinaire belief in free speech. In the interest of the war it is necessary to sacrifice some of it.
In Vietnam we have no political prisoners. No one is arrested or jailed for his or her speech or point of view. They are put in jail because they violated the law.
I watched her do speeches, but the only footage we could find of [princess] Margaret was archive footage, which was of her public presentation of herself.
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
What view is one likely to take of the state of a person's mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
Power should answer by action, not by speech.
You watch the Supreme Court in action on these cases, and they are a conflicted court. However, when it comes to speech issues generally, the court has been protective.
Analogy pervades all our thinking, our everyday speech and our trivial conclusions as well as artistic ways of expression and the highest scientific achievements.
Gracious to all, to none subservient, Without offense he spoke the word he meant
I thought I would lose, so I didn't prepare a speech.
There is hardly a congressman prepared to go home until he has at least one speech printed and sent to his constituents, and he won't let anybody interrupt his harangue until he has made all his useful suggestions about the 24 states of the Union, and especially the district he represents.