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A talk is like a woman's dress. Long enough to cover the subject, but short enough to be interesting. -
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Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour. -
Thomas Jefferson
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Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. -
Hannah Arendt
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For mankind, speech with a capital S is especially meaningful and committing, more than the content communicated. The outcry of the newborn and the sound of the bells are fraught with mystery more than the baby's woeful face or the venerable tower. -
Paul Goodman
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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud. -
Hermann Hesse
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Man does not speak because he thinks; he thinks because he speaks. Or rather, speaking is no different than thinking: to speak is to think. -
Octavio Paz
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Why doesn't the fellow who says, ''I'm no speechmaker'' let it go at that instead of giving a demonstration? -
Kin Hubbard
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Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot. -
D H Lawrence
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Speech is civilization itself. The word... preserves contact -- it is silence which isolates. -
Thomas Mann
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What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature. -
W Somerset Maugham
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Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, --for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it -- not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation. -
Herman Melville
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Speeches are not magic and there is no great speech without great policy. -
Peggy Noonan
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If you don't want to read it, see it or hear it, don't say it. -
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Listening to someone talk isn't at all like listening to their words played over on a machine. What you hear when you have a face before you is never what you hear when you have before you a winding tape. -
Oriana Fallaci
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Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense. -
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The only happy talkers are dandies who extract pleasure from the very perishability of their material and who would not be able to tolerate the isolation of all other forms of composition; for most good talkers, when they have run down, are miserable; they know that they have betrayed themselves, that they have taken material which should have a life of its own, to dispense it in noises upon the air. -
Cyril Connolly
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Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen. -
Francis Bacon
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Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth. -
E M Cioran
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