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Tag Name "Speech" (1628)

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Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language.
Roman Jakobson
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Speech that leads not to action, still more that hinders it, is a nuisance on the earth.
Thomas Carlyle
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Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictions word, preserves contact - it is silence which isolates.
Thomas E. Mann
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Speech should be fruitful as well as free.
Zechariah Chafee
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Speech ... is an invention of man's to prevent him from thinking.
Agatha Christie
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Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
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Speech remains as a slave to you, but the moment it leaves your mouth, you become its slave.
Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
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Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then?
Walt Whitman
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Speech devoted to truth should be straightforward and plain
Seneca the Younger
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Speech is the mirror of the mind.
Seneca the Younger
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Speech as known to us was unnecessary. A fragment of a sentence amounted almost to a long-winded redundancy. A gesture, a grunt, the curve of a facial line--even a significantly timed pause yielded informational juice.
Isaac Asimov
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Speech is like cloth of Arras opened and put abroad, whereby the imagery doth appear in figure whereas in thoughts they lie but as packs.
Plutarch
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Speech recognition is utterly crap for writing fiction. If you try reading a novel aloud you'll soon figure out why - written prose style is utterly unlike the spoken word.
Charles Stross
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Speech is the mirror of action.
Solon
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Speech isn't for agony.
Hortense Calisher
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Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.
Alfred North Whitehead
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Speech after long silence it is right, All other lovers being estranged or dead . . . That we descant and yet again descant Upon the supreme theme of Art and Song: Bodily decrepitude is wisdom young We loved each other and were ignorant.
William Butler Yeats
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Speech is the mirror of the soul.
Publilius Syrus
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Speech is as a pump, by which we raise and pour out the water from the great lake of Thought,--whither it flows back again.
John Sterling
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Speeches are like babies-easy to conceive but hard to deliver.
Aristotle
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Speech is always bolder than action.
Friedrich Schiller
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Speech may be barren but it is ridiculous to suppose that silence is always brooding on a nestful of eggs.
George Eliot
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Speech is but broken light upon the depth Of the unspoken.
George Eliot
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Speeches and me don't get along sometimes. It is kind of like putting a tie too tight on my neck. I'm going to do whatever feels right.
Rickey Henderson
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