Quotes for All
Obamas finest speeches do not excite. They do not inform. They dont even really inspire. They elevate. . . . He is not the Word made flesh, but the triumph of word over flesh . . . Obama is, at his best, able to call us back to our highest selves. Ezra Klein
But in the dying world I come from quotation is a national vice. No one would think of making an after-dinner speech without the help of poetry. It used to be the classics, now it’s lyric verse. Evelyn Waugh
I have no technical psychological interest; it is drama, speech,and events that interest me. Evelyn Waugh
Some members of Congress ought to have their mouths taped instead of their speeches. Evan Esar
For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of adding a vocal sound (speech) to the hammering of the first tribal music. Eugenio Montale
I forget, is freedom of speech when it’s legal to say what you want or is it when it has no consequences for some reason? Eugene Mirman
You don’t make your words true by embellishing them with religious lace. In making your speech sound more religious, it becomes less true. Eugene H. Peterson
As soon as the Gospels were written, speech without experience began to dabble with the new facts proposed by the existence of the Church. People tried to think the new life without being touched by it first in some form of call, listening, passion or change of heart. Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy
Because I have conducted my own operas and love sheep-dogs; because I generally dress in tweeds, and sometimes, at winter afternoon concerts, have even conducted in them; because I was a militant suffragette and seized a chance of beating time to The March of the Women from the window of my cell in Holloway Prison … Read more
While the Internet is censored in China, the censorship is allowing a level of speech to take place that’s unprecedented. Ethan Zuckerman