Breathing is fundamental to speech. A stammer is caused by erratic airflow, so if you have a smooth airflow, you have smooth speech. – Gareth Gates
The accent of one’s birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one’s speech. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Yeah, well, the F-bomb – it’s become as ubiquitous as the word ‘like.’ People just throw the word ‘like’ around as punctuation. And I think in a lot of everyday speech, the F-bomb has become a kind of dash or a comma. – Geoffrey Rush
Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth. – Emile M. Cioran
Every couple of seconds out here they’re honoring somebody. You’ve got to get dressed, go in and sit down. Invariably somebody makes a speech. – Dom DeLuise
Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding. – George Savile
There’s been very little writing about speech impediments, even though it’s this huge psychological barrier. – David Mitchell
Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection. – Neal Boortz
We’re so used to using military terminology in civilian speech that we forget those terms might mean something very specific. – Phil Klay
Donald Trump tests the limits of campaign speech. He makes false statements and refuses to correct them. He attacks other religions and ethnic groups, inflaming domestic tension and foreign terrorist rage. – David Ignatius
One day I heard a speech of Hitler. In this speech he said that the German factory worker and the German labourer must make common cause with the German intellectual worker. – Fritz Sauckel
It’s much easier to read the stories that have a lot of dialogue; of course, they flow much more easily into speech. – Deborah Eisenberg
When a man is asked to make a speech, the first thing he has to decide is what to say. – Gerald R. Ford
Unfortunately, opponents of online speech have decided to punish our changing technological world. – Dennis Hastert
Acceptance speeches can make or break presidential candidacies. It was Al Gore’s 2000 acceptance speech that relaunched his candidacy and nearly saved him. John Kerry’s speech and overall ineffective convention nearly sank him in 2004 (though he was almost saved by the debates). – Chuck Todd
Nor was it only from the millions of slaves that chains had been removed; the whole nation had been in bondage; free speech had been suppressed. – Matthew Simpson
To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker. – Frederick Douglass
So many times, I have a speech ready but no dice. Always a bridesmaid, never a mother. – Michael Curtiz