S Quotes
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“Speech is the golden harvest that followeth the flowering of thought.”
Source: Proverbial philosophy: a book of thoughts and arguments
“Speech is the image of actions”
“Speech is the index of the mind.”
“Speech is the mark of humanity. It is the normal terminus of thought.”
“Speech is the mirror of action.”
“Speech is the mirror of the mind.”
“Speech is the mirror of the soul.”
“Speech is the mother, not the handmaid, of thought.”
“Speech is the organ of this present world. Silence is the mystery of the world to come.”
“Speech is the pen and the sword of humankind and it is the foundation of their kingdom. Wherever the flag of speech waves, the most powerful armies are. defeated and scattered. In the arenas in which speech shouts out, the sounds of cannon balls become like the buzzing of bees. from behind the battlements on which the banner of speech has been raised, the sound of its drums are heard. In the precincts where its march reverberates, kings shake in their boots. The Master of Speech smashed to pieces many insurmountable walls, in the face of which Alexander the Great, Napoleon, and many others despaired or retread; and the pen of Speech, imparting and compliance, was saluted and praised.”
Source: Speech and Power of Expression
“Speech is the representation of the mind, and writing is the representation of speech.”
“Speech is the small change of silence.”
“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?”
Source: Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856
“Speech is the voice of the heart.”
“Speech is too often not the art of concealing thought, but of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal.”
Source: Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh
“Speech is uttered long after thoughts have evolved.”
“Speech isn't for agony.”
Source: Standard Dreaming: A Novella
“Speech itself, inevitable and unrelenting, is the wind. It can dance like a zephyr.
It can roar shriek or wail. But it can't be stopped.
Everything we hate about the media today was present at its creation: its corrupt or craven practitioners, its easy manipulation by the powerful, its capacity for propagating lies, its penchant for amplifying rage.
Also present was everything we admire -- and require -- from the media: factual information, penetrating analysis, probing investigation, truth spoken to power.
Same as it ever was.”
Source: The Influencing Machine: Brooke Gladstone On The Media
“Speech manifests what the mind is motivated to say. Don't like the speech make a new motivation engulf the ego.”
“Speech may be barren; but it is ridiculous to suppose that silence is always brooding on a nestful of eggs.”
“Speech may be silver but silence is golden. Traders with the golden touch do not talk about their success.”
“Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.”
“Speech one may regret,
Silence no sorrow begets,
Humility be born before honour,
Soft answer turns wrath’s corner”
Source: Pt. Kanhaiya Lal Misra - My Father
“Speech recognition is utterly crap for writing fiction. If you try reading a novel aloud you'll soon figure out why - written prose style is utterly unlike the spoken word.”
“Speech remains as a slave to you, but the moment it leaves your mouth, you become its slave.”
“Speech should be fruitful as well as free.”
Source: Government and Mass Communications
“Speech sounds can be analyzed into fundamental units called phonemes; these move around like protozoa in a drop of water, and, like protozoa, join together and split up.”
“Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language.”
“Speech that leads not to action, still more that hinders it, is a nuisance on the earth.”
Source: The Love Letters of Thomas Carlyle and Jane Welsh
“Speech therapy is an art that deserves to be more widely known. You cannot imagine the acrobatics your tongue mechanically performs in order to produce all the sounds of a language.”
“Speech travels faster than sound”
“Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts.
[Fr., La parole a ete donnce a l'homme pour deguiser sa pensee.]”
“Speech was given to the ordinary sort of men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.”
Source: SERMONS SEVERAL OCCASIONS
“Speech without heart is nothing but noise.”
Source: Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables
“Speech writers are more vulnerable to vanity than any other group of people in Washington.”
“Speech, writing, music, painting and sculpture, dance, and the ordinary activities of everyday life are at once the most familiar and the most mysterious of all order-generating processes.”
Source: Cosmogenesis: The Growth of Order in the Universe
“Speech, after all, is in some measure an expression of character, and flexibility in its use is a good way to tell your friends from the robots.”
“Speech, originally, was the device whereby Man learned, imperfectly, to transmit the thoughts and emotions of his mind. By setting up arbitrary sounds and combinations of sounds to represent certain mental nuances, he developed a method of communication--but one which in its clumsiness and thick-thumbed inadequacy degenerated all the delicacy of the mind into gross and guttural signaling.”
Source: Foundation Trilogy
“Speech, tennis, music, skiing, manners, love- you try them waking and perhaps balk at the jump, and then you're over. You've caught the rhythm of them once and for all, in your sleep at night. The city, of course, can wreck it. So much insomnia. So many rhythms collide. The salesgirl, the landlord, the guests, the bystanders, sixteen varieties of social circumstance in a day. Everyone has the power to call your whole life into question here. Too many people have access to your state of mind. Some people are indifferent to dislike, even relish it. Hardly anyone I know.”
Source: Speedboat
“Speeches and me don't get along sometimes. It is kind of like putting a tie too tight on my neck. I'm going to do whatever feels right.”
“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.”
“Speeches are like babies-easy to conceive but hard to deliver.”
“Speeches are more important in politics than talking points, as a rule, and are better remembered.”
“Speeches are not magic and there is no great speech without great policy.”
“Speeches by businessmen on social responsibility...may gain them kudos in the short run. But it helps to strengthen the already too prevalent view that the pursuit of profits is wicked.... There is one and only one social responsibility of business-to...engage in open and free competition without deception or fraud.”
“Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.”
Source: The Duke's Children: Trollope's Works
“Speeches in our culture are the vacuum that fills a vacuum.”
“Speeches made to the people are essential to the arousing of enthusiasm for a war.”
Source: Selected Political Addresses of Benito Mussolini: Translations, Notes and Rhetorical Analysis
“Speeches pass away, but acts remain.”
“Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.”