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| Jag kan inte sjunga, dansa eller agera, så vad annat skulle jag bli än pratshowsvärd. | David Letterman (1947-) |
| Om du tror att du är för liten för att göra skillnad, då har du aldrig gått till sängs med en mygga. | Betty Reese |
| Mr President, I have decided not to speak the entire speech which I have. | Afonso Van Dunem |
| The best answer to bad speech is good speech | Alan M. Dershowitz (1938-) |
| Political speeches are like steer horns. A point here, a point there, and a lot of bull in between. | Alfred E. Neuman |
| Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts. | Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (1754-1838) |
| Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships. | Charles Simic |
| Richard doesn't really like me to kill bugs, but sometimes I can't help it. | Cindy Crawford (1966-) |
| No man not inspired can make a good speech without preparation | Daniel Webster (1782-1852) |
| Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening | Dorothy Sarnoff (1917-) |
| The problem with speeches isn't so much not knowing when to stop, as knowing when not to begin | Frances Rodman |
| I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a few public officials. | George Mason |
| The fountain is my speech. The tulips are my speech. The grass and trees are my speech. | George T. Delacorte |
| What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to. | Hansell B. Duckett |
| By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of censorship that by its very existence chills free speech. | Harry A. Blackmun (1908-1999) |
| Churchill wrote his own speeches. When a leader does that, he becomes emotionally invested with his utterances. If Churchill had had a speech writer in 1940, Britain would be speaking German today. | James C. Humes |
| For me, this nomination was as if all of a sudden the crucifix began to wear a yellow star. | Jean Marie Cardinal Lustiger |
| Three things matter in a speech - who says it, how he says it and what he says, and of the three, the latter matters the least | John, Lord Morley |
| Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both | John Andrew Holmes |
| The longer I live, the larger allowances I make for human infirmities | John Wesley (1703-1791) |
| Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can come of nothing | Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792) |
| It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood. | Karl Popper |
| It was kind of boring for me to have to eat. I would know that I had to, and I would. | Kate Moss (1974-) |
| A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill. | Lord Mansfield |
| At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer. | Marshall Lumsden |
| To me, the "tape" is the final arbiter of any investment decision. I have a cardinal rule: Never fight the tape! | Martin Zweig |
| Hubert, a speech doesn't have to be eternal to be immortal | Muriel Humphrey |
| Finally, in conclusion, let me say just this. | Peter Sellers (1925-1980) |
| The most precious things in speech are pauses | Sir Ralph Richardson (1902-1983) |
| Before I begin speaking, there is something I would like to say. | Saul Gorn |
| It is music to my ears. I have always said that if I were a rich man, I would employ a professional praiser. | Sir Osbert Sitwell (1892-1969) |
| Seven wealthy towns contend for Homer dead, Through which the living Homer begged his bread | Thomas Seward |
| Wilson was once asked how long it took him to write a speech. He answered, 'That depends. If I am to speak 10 minutes, I need a week for preparation. If 15 minutes, 3 days. If half hour, two days. If an hour, I am ready now.' | Woodrow T. Wilson (1856-1924) |
| Speech is external thought, and thought internal speech. | Antoine Rivarol |
| I've always thought respectable people scoundrels, and I look anxiously at my face every morning for signs of my becoming a scoundrel. | Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) |
| I don't think, in all the years I managed them, I ever spoke more than thirty words to Frank and Brooks Robinson. | Earl Weaver (1930-) |
| Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong | Edward O. Wilson (1929-) |
| Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding | George Savile (1633-) |
| When a man is asked to make a speech, the first thing he has to decide is what to say. | Gerald R. Ford (1913-1913) |
| Human speech is like a cracked cauldron on which we bang out tunes that make bears dance, when what we want is to move the stars to pity | Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880) |
| Everybody favors free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground | Heywood C. Broun (1888-1939) |
| Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character. | John Ciardi (1916-1986) |
| Brothers don't necessarily have to say anything to each other-they can sit in a room and be together and just be completely comfortable with each other. | Leonardo DiCaprio (1974-) |
| Speech happens to not be his language | Madame de Staël (1766-1817) |
| All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer. | Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) |
| Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself. | Salman Rushdie (1947-) |
| Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home | Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) |
| Gracious to all, to none subservient, Without offense he spoke the word he meant | Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836-1907) |
| Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood. | William Penn (1644-1718) |
| So I have talked with Betsey and Betsey has talked with me, And we have agreed together that we can't never agree | Will Carleton (1845-) |
| Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. | Søren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855) |
| The best way to make a good speech is to have a good beginning and a good ending - and have them close together | Dr. Laurence J. Peter (1919-1990) |
| Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret. | Dr. Laurence J. Peter (1919-1990) |
| According to most studies, people's number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. Does that sound right? This means to the average person, if you go to a funeral, you're better off in the casket than doing the eulogy. | Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (1754-1838) |
| Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts. | Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (1754-1838) |
| Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself-like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks | Jean Kerr (1923-2003) |
| At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer. | Marshall Lumsden |
| Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. | Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) |
| A short speech may not be the best speech, but the best speech is a short one | Winston Churchill (1874-1965) |
| A communist is like a crocodile: when it opens its mouth you cannot tell whether it is trying to smile or preparing to eat you up | Winston Churchill (1874-1965) |
| It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. | Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) |
| My father gave me these hints on speech-making: "Be sincere... be brief... be seated." | James Roosevelt (1907-) |
| Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes. | Peter F. Drucker (1909-) |
| All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer. | Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) |
| Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home | Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) |
| I never want to get to the point where it's all about my needs, and the hell with anybody else. | Drew Barrymore (1975-) |
| Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening | Dorothy Sarnoff (1917-) |
| Three things matter in a speech - who says it, how he says it and what he says, and of the three, the latter matters the least | John, Lord Morley |
| All that I am or hope to be I owe to my angel mother. I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life. | Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) |
| Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. | Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) |
| Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives | Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804) |
| Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language | Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) |
| All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome | Ben Jonson (1572-1637) |
| I scarce ever heard or saw the introductory words, "Without vanity I may say," etc., but some vain thing immediately followed. | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) |
| Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in few words | Bible |
| He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction (Proverbs 13:3). | Bible |
| I feel your pain | Bill Clinton (1946-) |
| The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve. | Buddha (563 f.Kr.-483 f.Kr.) |
| Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to need protection. | Colin Powell (1937-) |
| The President is going to benefit from me reporting directly to him when I arrive. | Dan Quayle (1947-1947) |
| When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there. | Dan Quayle (1947-1947) |
| Speeches are for the younger men who are going places. And I'm not going anyplace except six feet under the floor of that little chapel adjoining the museum and library at Abilene. | Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969) |
| For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, to foreign nations, and to the next ages. | Francis Bacon, Sr. (1561-1626) |
| A great man left a watchword that we can well repeat: "There is no indispensable man | Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945) |
| A person's character is revealed by their speech | Greek proverb |
| 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. | Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880) |
| I detest my fellow-beings and do not feel that I am their fellow at all | Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880) |
| Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we have to shout. | Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) |
| We seldom repent of speaking little, very often of speaking too much: a vulgar and trite maxim, which all the world knows and, but which all the world does not practice | Jean de la Bruyère (1645-1696) |
| For me, this nomination was as if all of a sudden the crucifix began to wear a yellow star. | Jean Marie Cardinal Lustiger |
| Commercial speech is like obscenity... we can't seem to define it, but we know it when we see it. | Jef I. Richards |
| The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture. | John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-) |
| Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of specu | John Locke (1632-1704) |
| I hope some day to make you all a cup of coffee. Alright, peace. | Johnny Depp (1963-) |
| If nobody speaks of remarkable things, how can they be called remarkable? | Jon McGregor |
| There is no traitor like him whose domestic treason plants the poniard within the breast that trusted to his truth | Lord Byron (1788-1824) |
| There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus and upset the convictions and debauch the emotions of an audience not practiced in the tricks and delusions of oratory | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| Eloquence is the essential thing in a speech, not information | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| Facts, or what a man believes to be facts, are always delightful - Get your facts first, and - then you can distort 'em as much as you please | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| Undoubtedly they do more and viler things than those which we know and discover | Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) |
| Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another. | Nelson Mandela (1918-2013) |
| The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them | Oliver Goldsmith (1730-1774) |
| My fee, if I select the subject, is $150; if your committee selects the subject, the charge is $250, but in either case the speech is the same | Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) |
| Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense. | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| The music that can deepest reach, And cure all ill, is cordial speech | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I | Robert Burns (1759-1796) |
| Speech was given to the ordinary sort of men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it. | Robert South |
| I have no more pleasure in hearing a man attempting wit and failing, than in seeing a man trying to leap over a ditch and tumbling into it | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| Before I begin speaking, there is something I would like to say. | Saul Gorn |
| Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts. | Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) |
| Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour. | Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826) |
| Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then? | Walt Whitman (1819-1892) |
| A sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener with constant use. | Washington Irving (1783-1859) |
| 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 | William Feather (1889-1981) |
| Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance. | Justice William Orville Douglas (1898-1980) |
| A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions. | Wilson Mizner (1876-1933) |
| The worst tempered people I've ever met were people who knew they were wrong | Wilson Mizner (1876-1933) |
| Jag kan inte sjunga, dansa eller agera, så vad annat skulle jag bli än pratshowsvärd. | David Letterman (1947-) |
| Om du tror att du är för liten för att göra skillnad, då har du aldrig gått till sängs med en mygga. | Betty Reese |
| Mr President, I have decided not to speak the entire speech which I have. | Afonso Van Dunem |
| The best answer to bad speech is good speech | Alan M. Dershowitz (1938-) |
| Political speeches are like steer horns. A point here, a point there, and a lot of bull in between. | Alfred E. Neuman |
| Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts. | Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (1754-1838) |
| Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships. | Charles Simic |
| Richard doesn't really like me to kill bugs, but sometimes I can't help it. | Cindy Crawford (1966-) |
| No man not inspired can make a good speech without preparation | Daniel Webster (1782-1852) |
| Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening | Dorothy Sarnoff (1917-) |
| The problem with speeches isn't so much not knowing when to stop, as knowing when not to begin | Frances Rodman |
| I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a few public officials. | George Mason |
| The fountain is my speech. The tulips are my speech. The grass and trees are my speech. | George T. Delacorte |
| What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to. | Hansell B. Duckett |
| By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of censorship that by its very existence chills free speech. | Harry A. Blackmun (1908-1999) |