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“In the speech sound wave, one word runs into the next seamlessly; there are no little silences between spoken words the way there are white spaces between written words. We simply hallucinate word boundaries when we reach the end of a stretch of sound that matches some entry in our mental dictionary.”

Source: The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language

“I am out of humanity's reach.I must finish my journey alone,Never hear the sweet music of speech;I start at the sound of my own.”

Humanity Sound My Own Journey Sweet Speech My Journey Sweet Music Journey Alone

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“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

“When Eudæmonidas heard a philosopher arguing that only a wise man can be a good general, "This is a wonderful speech," said he; "but he that saith it never heard the sound of trumpets.”

Men Said Sound Wise Wonderful Heard Speech Philosopher Arguing Trumpets

Author:Plutarch

“The music that of common speech but slanted so that each detail sounds unexpected as a sharp inserted in a simple scale.”

Sound Simple Common Speech Details Scales Unexpected

Book:99 Poems: New & Selected

Source: 99 Poems: New & Selected

“Yesterday during a speech on national security, Jeb Bush mispronounced Boko Haram and got confused between Iran and Iraq. When reached for comment, his brother George W. said, 'He sure sounds presidentiary to me.'”

Said Sound Security Brother Speech Iraq Yesterday Confused Iran Comment National Security Boko Haram Haram

Author:Conan O'Brien

“Pronunciation has made many an innocent word sound like a doctor's orders for a stomach pump.”

Made Order Sound Speech Doctors Innocent Stomach Pumps Pronunciation

Book:The Collected Writings

Source: The Collected Writings

“The liberty of the press would be an empty sound, and no man would venture to write on any subject, however, pure his purpose, without an attorney at one elbow and a counsel at the other. From minds thus subdued by the fear of punishment, there could issue no works of genius to expand the empire of human reason.”

“And empty heads console with empty sound.”

Sound Speech Empty Console Empty Heads

Book:The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, being the prologue to the satires. Satires, epistles, and odes of Horace imitated. Epitaphs. The Dunciad, in four books

Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, being the prologue to the satires. Satires, epistles, and odes of Horace imitated. Epitaphs. The Dunciad, in four books

“Roy Blount is so funny, and he sounds like he's just talking, and the next thing you know he has tossed off an essay as elegant and intricately structured as a birdsong. His ear for American speech is better than anybody's.”

Knows Next Sound Talking Speech Ears Essays Elegant Birdsong

Author:Ian Frazier

“The first thing that strikes you about Timothy Murphys verse is the palpable texture of his line - that sound of sense practised by that other American poet-farmer, Robert Frost. And just as Murphys ear is trained on the rhythms of local speech and classical epigram, his eye holds fast on the image. This is an undeluded vision, sometimes bleak, often funny, and never less than painstakingly crafted.”

Firsts Sometimes Eye Sound Lines Vision Poet Speech Ears Strikes Locals Rhythm His Eyes Farmers Verses Texture Frost Bleak Epigrams Hold Fast

Author:Michael Donaghy

“It is not speech or tool making that distinguishes us from other animals, it is imagination....Of what use are speech sounds and tools without an inspiration toward perfectibility, without a sense that we can create or construct a history.”

Use Inspiration Sound Imagination Animal Speech Tools Constructs

Author:Louise J. Kaplan

“The whole art of the political speech is to put 'nothing' into it. It is much more difficult than it sounds.”

Art Whole Political Difficult Sound Speech Political Speeches

Author:Hilaire Belloc

“My music must be an artistic reproduction of human speech in all its finest shades. That is, the sounds of human speech, as the external manifestations of thought and feeling must, without exaggeration or violence, become true, accurate music.”

Humans Feelings Sound Violence Speech Artistic Manifestation Shade Accurate Finest Exaggeration Reproduction Thoughts And Feelings

Author:Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky

“The more a government strives to curtail freedom of speech, the more obstinately is it resisted; not indeed by the avaricious, ... but by those whom good education, sound morality, and virtue have rendered more free.”

Government Sound Virtue Morality Speech Strive Freedom Of Speech Strife Good Education

Author:Baruch Spinoza

“I've looked at all of Hitler's speeches thinking that there's gotta be one where he's 'I'm Hitler!', but there weren't any. His speeches were all about hope and prosperity - he ran on a platform of peace and prosperity. Hitler speeches that makes him sound like a villain are pretty hard to find, he was very detached from what he was doing, he kept himself compartmentalised from it.”

Thinking Hard Sound Speech Prosperity Ran Villain Platforms Detached

Author:Christopher McQuarrie

“That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech.”

Song Sound Speech Singing

Book:CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE

Source: CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE

“For mankind, speech with a capital S is especially meaningful and committing, more than the content communicated. The outcry of the newborn and the sound of the bells are fraught with mystery more than the baby's woeful face or the venerable tower.”

Faces Sound Mystery Mankind Baby Conversation Speech Meaningful Bells Towers Newborn

Book:Five years

Source: Five years