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The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.

Black leadership has to recognize that principles more than speech, character more than a claim, is greater in advancing the cause of our liberation than what has transpired thus far.

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.

I grew up to have my father's looks, my father's speech patterns, my father's posture, my father's opinions, and my mother's contempt for my father.

I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise?

Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately.

We meet before the movie and she gives you charts with sounds on them and makes a tape of examples. While they are setting up the scene, I go with her to the trailer and we go through the scene and correct the speech.

Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.

Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.

When a man is asked to make a speech, the first thing he has to decide is what to say.

I will be brief. Not nearly so brief as Salvador Dali, who gave the world's shortest speech. He said I will be so brief I have already finished, and he sat down.

A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.

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.

So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning and sometimes losing, the fight for First Amendment rights in comics and, more generally, for freedom of speech.

A nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics, because comics are a natural target whenever an election comes up.

The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture.

We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.

I do find my speech difficult at times, but it's getting so much better as my confidence grows and that's thanks to the position I'm now in, which is totally due to my fans.

You can't trust politicians. It doesn't matter who makes a political speech. It's all lies - and it applies to any rock star who wants to make a political speech as well.

Lord Chancellor, did I deliver the speech well? I am glad of that, for there was nothing in it.