When we study Shakespeare on the page, for academic purposes, we may require all kinds of help. Generally, we read him in modern spelling and with modern punctuation, and with notes. But any poetry that is performed - from song lyric to tragic speech - must make its point, as it were, without reference back.
I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.
Free speech has remained a quintessential American ideal, even as our society has moved from the ink quill to the touch screen.
Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump for a speech on conservation.
Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.
All writers start out mimicking other writers. I've never relinquished that. I have a good ear for speech and writing patterns.
I said in a speech out in Peoria that with Jerry in as vice president, the pressures on Nixon to resign would be unbearable. I know that Republicans see 50 House seats flying out the window in 1974.
Speech lessons probably did more for my singing voice - they teach you breathing, resonance.
What we need to do in this PC world is forget about unanimity of speech and unanimity of thought and we need to concentrate on being respectful of those people with whom we disagree.
Silence is safer than speech.
John Howard Davies was not a very human person... if you made a mistake of any kind, any sort of pause in speech, he would treat you rather as if he was a schoolmaster.
To all the self-righteous defenders of 'freedom of speech' who oh-so-ardently proclaimed that FARA registration places no restrictions whatsoever on RT's journalistic work in the U.S.: Withdrawal of Congressional credentials speaks much louder than empty platitudes.
Freedom of speech, for those who don't accept multiculturalism or the sexual revolution, is increasingly limited, mainly by threats to the jobs of those who speak out of turn.
Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
I tried to imagine how I would have felt as a kid if Shawn Michaels or any WWE superstar would have come to my school and came to my assembly and had given a speech that we would have had to listen to I would have lost my mind.
Batman had a certain speech pattern that I established because he was always Sherlock Holmes-ian. He was Basil Rathbone. In other words, he was always musing about something.
I have no problem with free speech, but free speech and then silencing your opposition - boy, I have a problem with that.
I think the adverb is a much-maligned part of speech. It's always accused of being oppressive, even tyrannical, when in fact it's so supple and sly.
All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
No speech can stain what is noble by nature.
