Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.
Yeah, well, the F-bomb - it's become as ubiquitous as the word 'like.' People just throw the word 'like' around as punctuation. And I think in a lot of everyday speech, the F-bomb has become a kind of dash or a comma.
The accent of a man's native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.
The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech.
The most precious things in speech are pauses.
The basic line in any good verse is cadenced... building it around the natural breath structures of speech.
I love her attitude, but as much as I'd like to bring my medals to a speech or appearance, I never do.
I believe that the freedom of speech should be protected, but so should a family's right to privacy as they grieve their loss. There is a time and a place for vigorous debate on the War on Terror, but during a family's last goodbye is not it.
Verse, singing, and speech have a common origin.
The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the graphic art are taxed beyond their powers in attempting to portray its features. Language and illustration combined must fail.
The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?
One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.
Well, my brother says Hello. So, hooray for speech therapy.
Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.