Best speech & ends Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“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

“The conscious utterance of thought, by speech or action, to any end, is art.”

Art Ends Action Speech Conscious Utterance

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

“If you listen to the urban speech patterns there you'll find it's quite characteristic that a sentence will begin in one language, go through a second language and end in a third. It's the very playful, very natural result of juggling languages. You are always reaching for the most appropriate phrase.”

Ifs Ends Language Natural Results Speech Thirds India Patterns Sentences Phrases Characteristics Reaching Appropriate Urban Juggling

Author:Salman Rushdie

“The worst, most insidious effect of censorship is that, in the end, it can deaden the imagination of the people. Where there is no debate, it is hard to go on remembering, every day, that there is a suppressed side to every argument.”

People Ends Hard Remember Death Sides Imagination Worst Effects Goes On Speech Argument Debate Censorship Insidious

Author:Salman Rushdie

“Tabloids invoke freedom of speech, but they're not interested in that, they're just interested in who's shagging whom, who's got drunk. And if you take that pretend, faux moral standpoint, you end up with people in public life being completely boring. Like they've had their genitals removed.”

People Ifs Ends Moral Speech Boring Drunk Not Interested Freedom Of Speech Public Life Standpoint Tabloids Invoke Faux Shagging

Author:Jarvis Cocker

“As for Hitler, his professed religion unhesitatingly juxtaposed the God-Providence and Valhalla. Actually his god was an argument at a political meeting and a manner of reaching an impressive climax at the end of speeches.”

Ends Political Atheism Speech Argument Meetings Positive Atheism Reaching Providence Impressive Climax Valhalla

Author:Albert Camus

“To die: - to sleep: No more; and, by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished.”

“There is no weapon in the end as difficult to overcome as the tongue of an enemy.”

Ends Difficult Enemy Speech Weapons Overcoming Tongue

Book:Gods and Androids

Source: Gods and Androids

“We have to uphold a free press and freedom of speech - because, in the end, lies and misinformation are no match for the truth.”

Ends Lying Speech Presses Free Speech Freedom Of Speech Misinformation Free Press

Author:Barack Obama

“It is said that Windham, when he came to the end of a speech, often found himself so perplexed by his own subtlety that he hardly knew which way he was going to give his vote. This is a good illustration of the fallaciousness of reasoning, and of the uncertainties which attend its practical application.”

Way Giving Said Ends Found Speech Vote Practicals Uncertainty Reasoning Application Subtlety Illustration Perplexed

Author:Augustus William Hare

“The effect of speech upon the condition of the soul is comparable to the power of drugs over the nature of bodies. For just as different drugs dispel different secretions from the body, and some bring an end to disease and others to life, so also in the case of speeches, some distress, others delight, some cause fear, others make the hearers bold, and some drug and bewitch the soul with a kind of evil persuasion.”

Kind Different Soul Ends Body Evil Causes Cases Conditions Effects Drug Speech Disease Delight Distress Persuasion

Author:Gorgias

“Kennedy was significantly different than Eisenhower before him, and different from Johnson after him. So those three years were the beginning of a détente with the Soviet Union, a new feeling for peace, a seeking out of a new ally with the Soviet Union - the end of the Cold War, as Kennedy called it in his American University speech.”

Years Different War Ends Feelings Three Cold Speech Unions University Seeking Allies Soviet Three Years Cold War Soviet Union Johnson American Universities New Feelings

Author:Oliver Stone

“According to Solomon, life and death are in the power of the tongue; and as Euripides truly affirmeth, every unbridled tongue in the end shall find itself unfortunate; for in all that ever I observed in the course of worldly things, I ever found that men's fortunes are oftener made by their tongues than by their virtues, and more men's fortunes overthrown thereby, also, than by their vices.”

Men Made Ends Courses Found Virtue Speech Fortune Vices Tongue Life And Death Unfortunate Worldly Solomon Worldly Things

Book:Miscellaneous works

Source: Miscellaneous works

“Not only was one cartoonist gunned down, but riots erupted around the world, resulting in the deaths of scores. No one could say toward what positive social end, yet free-speech absolutists were unchastened.”

World Ends Social Speech Around The World Score Free Speech Riot Cartoonist Absolutism

Author:Garry Trudeau

“I've done movies in the past that have so many characters and I find it's very hard to follow all these stories. You end up not caring about any of the people and I thought that would be the case in this film, and you had these big speeches for each character, you know, it's like "God that's how you'll have to cut that down in order to paste it all", to edit the movie and my representatives could say "no, you really you ought to check it out.”

People Knows Ends Hard Done Character Stories Bigs Would Be Past Film Order Cases Cutting Ought Speech Caring Checks Representatives Edits Not Caring

Author:Jeff Bridges

“A period may be defined as a portion of speech that has in itself a beginning and an end, being at the same time not too big to be taken in at a glance”

May Ends Bigs Taken Periods Speech Defined Portions Glances

Book:Rhetoric

Source: Rhetoric

“At the end of your life, do you give a concession speech?”

Giving Ends Speech Concessions

Author:Jon Stewart

“To me it begins and ends with these psychedelic substances. The synergy of the psilocybin in the hominid diet brought us out of the animal mind and into the world of articulated speech and imagination.”

World Mind Ends Imagination Animal Speech Substance Diets Psychedelic Synergy Psilocybin Hominids

Author:Terence McKenna

“Hatemongers like Media Matters take innocent statements like mine, Rush Limbaugh's, John Gibson's, and Bill O'Reilly's and make them offensive by posting them on the Internet, allowing the general public to hear words that were meant for people who already agree with us. Hey, Media Matters, you want to end offensive speech? Then stop recording it for people who would be offended.”

People Want Ends Matter Would Be Media Mines Internet Speech Agree Bills Statements Innocent Hey Allowing Offensive Offended General Public Bill O Reilly

Author:Stephen Colbert

“God Bless America started to become an almost ritualistic incantation at the end of political speeches really with Ronald Reagan. It appears occasionally before, but it was not that common. And of course since it was a song that wasn't written by Irving Berlin until the 20th century (laughter), none of the 19th century presidents said God Bless America at the end of speeches, either. I think that the symbolism which suggests that everybody is religious and that even presidents who believe in church and state feel obliged to do this.”

“You don't just - you often have to defend the freedoms of people you don't like, you know, whose work you don't like, because freedom of speech is not just for serious people. It's also for trashy people. So, and, unfortunately, this is at the trashy end of the scale.”

People Knows Ends Serious Like You Speech Scales Freedom Of Speech

Author:Salman Rushdie

“We leave Scarlet Witch without a home, without a family, and she ends up creating a surrogate family within the Avengers and making a decision to be a part of the team. I think a lot of that has to do with what Jeremy's character - like his attitude towards her and the speech he gives her at the end of the film. So we pick up with her having started a new life, but still trying to figure out what her abilities are and if using them causes greater good or greater damage.”

“At the end of the day after a few speeches and a lot of campaign stops, I'm more energized than drained.”

Ends Speech Campaigns The End Of The Day Drained

Author:Mitt Romney

“As poetry is the highest speech of man, it can not only accept and contain, but in the end express best everything in the world, or in himself, that he discovers. It will absorb and transmute, as it always has done, and glorify, all that we can know. This has always been, and always will be, poetry's office.”

Knows Men World Ends Done Accepting Speech Office Highest Poetry Is Can Not Glorify

Author:Conrad Aiken

“You kind of half-prepare a speech in your head, and then you get up there and then you end up saying nothing that was in your head before you went up there. It's a very weird thing. I never do award speeches too well.”

Wells Kind Ends Half Speech Get Up Awards Weird Things Saying Nothing

Author:Ed Sheeran

“By the end of the semester [in the high school] I was the only one up in front of the class everyday. Actually I could have passed the class four times over because every time you got in front of the class you got extra credit.That was the only class I got an A in and it was the funniest report card because it read Speech - A but everything else was just D, D, D, D.”

Ends School Class Four Fronts Speech High School Everyday Credit Cards Extras Reports Semester Report Cards

Author:Gabriel Iglesias

“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.”

Writing Ends Speak Language Speech Understood English Language Few Words Ostentation Written Language Writing Words Language Words Plain Language Words You Speak

Book:Fruits of Solitude: In Reflections and Maxims Relating to the Conduct of Human Life

Source: Fruits of Solitude: In Reflections and Maxims Relating to the Conduct of Human Life

“The search for the means to put an end to things, an end to speech, is what enables the discourse to continue.”

Mean Ends Speech Discourse

Book:The Unnamable

Source: The Unnamable

“They ended every speech with the word hiro, which means: like I said. Thus each man took responsibility for intruding into the inarticulate murmur of the spheres. To hiro they added the word koue, a cry of joy or distress, according to whether it was sung or howled. Thus they essayed to piece the mysterious curtain which hangs between all talking men: at the end of every utterance a man stepped back, so to speak, and attempted to interpret his words to the listener, attempted to subvert the beguiling intellect with the noise of true emotion.”

Men Mean Said Ends Joy Speak Emotion Responsibility Talking Pieces Cry Speech Intellect Noise Mysterious Spheres Listeners Distress Curtains Utterance Inarticulate True Emotions

Author:Leonard Cohen

“Youth is terrible: it is a stage trod by children in buskins and a variety of costumes mouthing speeches they've memorized and fanatically believe but only half understand. And history is terrible because it so often ends up a playground for the immature; a playground for the young Nero, a playground for the young Bonaparte, a playground for the easily roused mobs of children whose simulated passions and simplistic poses suddenly metamorphose into a catastrophically real reality.”

Believe Children Real Ends Reality Young Passion Half Stage Youth Terrible Speech Variety Costumes Immature Playgrounds Nero Bonaparte

Author:Milan Kundera

“To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether 'tis Nobler in the mind to suffer The Slings and Arrows of outrageous Fortune, Or to take Arms against a Sea of troubles, And by opposing end them: to die, to sleep No more; and by a sleep, to say we end The Heart-ache, and the thousand Natural shocks That Flesh is heir to? 'Tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished. To die to sleep, To sleep, perchance to Dream; Aye, there's the rub.”

“Where there are so many, all speech becomes a debate without end. But two together may perhaps find wisdom.”

May Two Ends Together Speech Debate Fellowship Of The Ring

Book:The Lord of the Rings: One Volume

Source: The Lord of the Rings: One Volume

“Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them?”

“Khattam-Shud,' he said slowly, 'is the Arch-Enemy of all Stories, even of language itself. He is the Prince of Silence and the Foe of Speech. And because everything ends, because dreams end, stories end, life ends, at the finish of everything we use his name. "It's finished," we tell one another, "it's over. Khattam-Shud: The End.”

Said Ends Stories Use Dream Names Language Silence Enemy Speech Finished Foe Arches

Book:Haroun and the Sea of Stories

Source: Haroun and the Sea of Stories

“And as for you Agent Pallas – man-to-man, if you ever insult my girl on national television again, I’ll…” he stopped. Everyone in the room waited, hanging. Jack raised an eyebrow. “Yes?” Collin turned to Cameron with a look of astonishment. “I’ve got nothing. I had this whole exit speech going and I was gonna end with some big macho threat but when I got there, it was like – bleh – nothing. That’s a pisser.” He appeared disgusted with himself, then shrugged it off. “Oh well. Catch you guys later.” He strode out without a second glance.”

Ifs Men Wells Looks Ends Whole Bigs Guy Girl Rooms Television Speech Threat Raised Agents Insult Glances Eyebrows Exit Astonishment My Girl Macho Cameron Disgusted Oh Well

Author:Julie James

“With tears running down her face, Cecily had reminded him of the moment at her wedding to Gabriel when he had delivered a beautiful speech praising the groom, at the end of which he had announced, “Dear God, I thought she was marrying Gideon. I take it all back.”

Ends Moments Running Beautiful Faces Tears Speech Praise Dear Marrying Will Herondale Gabriel Dear God Gideon

Book:The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess

Source: The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess

“Lady of silences Calm and distressed Torn and most whole Rose of memory Rose of forgetfulness Exhausted and life-giving Worried reposeful The single Rose Is now the Garden Where all loves end Terminate torment Of love unsatisfied The greater torment Of love satisfied End of the endless Journey to no end Conclusion of all that Is inconclusible Speech without word and Word of no speech Grace to the Mother For the Garden Where all love ends.”

Source: Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950

“Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.”

Heart Art Ends Literature Music Speech Music Is Playing Music Inspirational Music Power Of Music Art And Music Art Music Music Speaks Literature And Music

Author:Alphonse de Lamartine

“A good speech has a beginning, a middle and an end, the best example being, 'I love you.'”

Ends Middle Love You Example Speech I Love You I Loved You I Love You So Much

Author:Robert Breault

“Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same. Gossip is the tool of the poet, the shop-talk of the scientist, and the consolation of the housewife, wit, tycoon and intellectual. It begins in the nursery and ends when speech is past.”

Love Humans Ends Past Race Poet Lovers Speech Intellectual Tools Scientist Wit Human Race Shops Gossip Consolation Scandal Housewife Nursery Chatter Malicious Tycoons Malicious Gossip

Author:Phyllis McGinley

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