God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
Marcus Fabius Quintilian

Body language is a very powerful tool. We had body language before we had speech, and apparently, 80% of what you understand in a conversation is read through the body, not the words.
Deborah Bull

Eloquent speech is not from lip to ear, but rather from heart to heart.
William Jennings Bryan

There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable.
Annie Dillard

Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.
Bela Lugosi

As we saw in the Queen's Speech, anti-social behaviour - a phenomenon that I believe to be a genuine worry that is also being fed by a lot of scare stories - is the political theme of the moment.
Kamal Ahmed

You can't trust politicians. It doesn't matter who makes a political speech. It's all lies - and it applies to any rock star who wants to make a political speech as well.
Bob Geldof

I love her attitude, but as much as I'd like to bring my medals to a speech or appearance, I never do.
Mary Lou Retton

You're an old-timer if you can remember when setting the world on fire was a figure of speech.
Franklin P. Jones

Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.
Norman O. Brown

U.S.A. is the speech of the people.
John Dos Passos

Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.
William O. Douglas

Any man who makes a speech more than six times a year is bound to repeat himself, not because he has little to say, but because he wants applause and the old stuff gets it.
William Feather

One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.
Harold Pinter

Speech is external thought, and thought internal speech.
Antoine Rivarol

A great speech is literature.
Peggy Noonan

Speech is the mirror of action.
Solon

No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech.
Kin Hubbard

George Orwell's contention was that it is a sure sign of trouble when things can no longer be called by their right names and described in plain, forthright speech.
Christopher Lasch

You must stand for free speech in the streets.
Mary Harris Jones