Quotes for Speech

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.

Joyce Maynard

I got an invitation to speak in the European parliament and I met Ban Ki-moon, the secretary-general of the U.N. I took those opportunities to talk about what I thought was right. That those people, who are more important and powerful than I am, think I'm relevant enough to give a speech is mind-blowing.

Conchita Wurst

I will obviously exercise my freedom of speech because I live in India, not in Saudi Arabia and Iran; freedom of speech is an integral part of the Constitution of India and I believe in respecting in whatever is lawful in India.

Payal Rohatgi

The Holocaust survivor who knows Auschwitz through the experience of suffering observes it all from the perspective assigned to him. He keeps silent or gives interviews to the Spielberg Foundation, he accepts the compensation payments promised him after a fifty-year delay, or, if he is prominent, he makes a speech in the Swedish Academy.

Imre Kertesz

Martin Luther King's 'I Have a Dream' speech always sends me down some path, some trajectory of some creative idea.

Abigail Washburn

The current total of countries in the world with First Amendments is one. You have guaranteed freedom of speech. Other countries don't have that.

Neil Gaiman

Everything that we inherit, the rain, the skies, the speech, and anybody who works in the English language in Ireland knows that there's the dead ghost of Gaelic in the language we use and listen to and that those things will reflect our Irish identity.

John McGahern

No one ever complains about a speech being too short!

Ira Hayes

I'm not a smack talker. I have a speech impediment. So if I try to talk smack and I start stuttering, that ruins the whole thing right there anyway.

Curtis Blaydes

As I've been acting since I was young it's taught me to give a good speech, and, though I say so myself, I did it pretty well.

Jonathan Krohn

While we as members of the Coalition strongly support free speech, it is not unlimited free speech. People aren't free to vilify others on the basis of race or religion.

Denis Napthine

Free speech is a valuable commodity, which we preserve and protect, but there quite rightly is restriction on free speech in the best interest of the good order of the community and common sense.

Denis Napthine

It's impossible to utilize your right to free speech in the way you truly deserve and not suffer repercussions on any level.

David Draiman

Taking someone else's language and fitting it into your own speech - you learn a lot about other people's brains, doing that.

Johnny Flynn

Even relatively tolerant countries fine and jail people for expressing heterodox views. America uniquely protects speech.

Michael J. Knowles

The integers of language are sentences, and their organs are the parts of speech. Linguistic organization, then, consists in the differentiation of the parts of speech and the integration of the sentence.

John Wesley Powell

There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.

J. L. Austin

Private religious speech can't be discriminated against. It has to be treated equally with secular speech.

Samuel Alito

College students overwhelmingly support free speech in the abstract, but when it comes to the real world, they are accepting of restrictions on it, which is in effect, not very supportive of free speech.

Mary Katharine Ham

Protecting free speech is literally inclusion. Not protecting free speech rights is literally exclusion of certain viewpoints.

Mary Katharine Ham