If you listen to the urban speech patterns there you'll find it's quite characteristic that a sentence will begin in one language, go through a second language and end in a third. It's the very playful, very natural result of juggling languages. You are always reaching for the most appropriate phrase.
The weird thing about serious acting is I've always done impressions of people, all my life, and I did the thing called a balloon debate. The idea is there's a hot air balloon traveling across the Atlantic and it's going down and you have to give a speech as to why you should stay in the balloon. Six people are going to be chucked out and you want to stay.
Good dialogue is not real speech-it's the illusion of real speech.
Eloquent speech is not from lip to ear, but rather from heart to heart.
To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life.
The remedy for the abuse of free speech is more speech.
One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting.
Speech is the small change of silence.
Twas a special gift of God that speech was given to mankind; for through the Word, and not by force, wisdom governs.
I have but nine-pence in ready money, but I can draw for a thousand pounds.
I am determined to practice deep listening. I am determined to practice loving speech.
Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.
The person who has the strong ownership of free speech is the one who owns the press.
The so-called liberals of today have the very popular idea that freedom of speech, of thought, of the press, freedom of religion, freedom from imprisonment without trial-that all these freedoms can be preserved in the absence of what is called economic freedom. They do not realize that, in a system where there is no market, where the government directs everything, all those other freedoms are illusory, even if they are made into laws and written up in constitutions.
Attitudes are the real figures of speech.
Babylon, Learned and wise, hath perished utterly, Nor leaves her speech one word to aid the sigh That would lament her.
No man not inspired can make a good speech without preparation.
I took speech training. I took a few voice lessons in college.
The color of the mountains is Buddha's body; the sound of running water is his great speech.
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.