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Not being able to read and write music is not the same as being illiterate in speech and writing.
We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.
I believe in poetic discourse, in the value of speech in a non-naturalistic way; it's speculative.
In my godless household, poems were the closest we came to sacred speech -- the only prayers said.
Speeches are more important in politics than talking points, as a rule, and are better remembered.
The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech.
I'm defending free speech pretty much all over the place because you still have freedom of speech.
Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.
Slow down, especially at the beginning of a speech. You'll get the audience's attention by pausing.
I had worked so hard for so long that I developed a speech impediment. It happens when I get tired.
Politically popular speech has always been protected: even the Jews were free to say ‘Heil Hitler.’
People dream their whole lives of their Oscar speech; I dreamt my whole life of hosting the Oscars.
It occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility.
We hold that no person or set of persons can properly establish a standard of expression for others.
They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one's behind me, anyway.
It's better to say nothing than spend 1,000 words or an hour speech saying nothing. Get to the point.
Who that has heard a strain of music feared then lest he should speak extravagantly any more forever?
Men use thought only to justify their wrong doings, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
Corporations have free speech, but they can't speak like you and me. They don't have mouths or hands.
Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection.
Many things are better for silence than for speech: others are better for speech than for stationery.
I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.
I love her attitude, but as much as I'd like to bring my medals to a speech or appearance, I never do.
Speech is our second possession, after the soul-and perhaps we have no other possession in this world.
I would rather put up with Rush Limbaugh and live in a country where we all do have freedom of speech.
When a tongue fails to send forth appropriate shafts, there might be a word to act as healer of these.
The first amendment ensures not that speech will be fair, but that it will be free. It cannot be both.
Swear words and profanities are mere abbreviations of speech, similar to the abbreviations in writing.
If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
I'd rather die on my feet making a speech than die of Alzheimer's - and that's what I'm planning to do.
The time-deaf are unable to speak what they know. For speech needs a sequence of words, spoken in time.
Freedom of speech and the press must be complete. But then freedom of association must be complete too.
He who takes not counsel of the Unseen and Silent, from him will never come real visibility and speech.
I never threw away that paper with my Grammy speech because I haven't hit the pinnacles I plan to reach.
Fighting is an expression. It's a form of speech, and that's why they call it martial arts. It's an art.
Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
At the end of the day after a few speeches and a lot of campaign stops, I'm more energized than drained.
I believe that through positive thoughts, speech, action and attitudes, we change things for the better.
We should ask ourselves three questions before we speak: Is it true? Is it kind? Does it glorify Christ?
I've discovered this new electronic technique that creates new speech out of stuff that's already there.
Music has been called the speech of the angels; I will go farther and call it the speech of God Himself.
Unfortunately, the problem of the free speech argument is that you have to defend people you can't stand.
I typically start out almost every speech I give making some kind of joke about me being in a wheelchair.
Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth.
Hate radio, hate speech, hate groups, hate crimes really don't fit in, in the America that we know today.
Privacy is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution as freedom of speech is in the First Amendment.
I couldn't speak well. I went to speech therapy for 10 years. And I was sort of frustrated in that sense.
Every man may speak truly, but to speak methodically, prudently, and fully is a talent that few men have.
It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.
Private religious speech can't be discriminated against. It has to be treated equally with secular speech.