The best book like the best speech will do it all - make us laugh think cry and cheer - preferably in that order.

Brevity is the best recommendation of speech whether in a senator or an orator.

Blanche talks about aging and why should she be considered poor because physical beauty is transitory and fading and she has such richness of the soul. I think that speech is so beautiful and so telling and so true.

I love her attitude but as much as I'd like to bring my medals to a speech or appearance I never do.

An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness for speech is itself a critique of life: it names it characterizes it passes judgment in that it creates.

She had lost the art of conversation but not unfortunately the power of speech.

Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

I can't believe it. I'm speechless. It is amazing to see where I've come from the last two years.

The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap is it not?

It's good that the first half of the speech emphasized freedom because George W. Bush has been the global champion for freedom. As he said if we don't fight tyranny it will not leave us alone in peace.

It is clear that not in one thing alone but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.

Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.

Whoever thinks that he alone has speech or possesses speech or mind above others when unfolded such men are seen to be empty.

No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech.

There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English but with not one recognizable syllable.