Pastoral Resources

In the world of commercial speech, tobacco advertising bears the earmarks of an endangered species.

Advertising is speech. It's regulated because it's often effective speech.

Commercial speech is like obscenity... we can't seem to define it, but we know it when we see it.

The most precious things in speech are pauses.

Speech is external thought, and thought internal speech.

We should silence anyone who opposes the right to freedom of speech.

The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech.

The accent of a man's native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.

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.

Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.

I wouldn't be surprised to learn that Clinton cost John Kerry more votes than he gained for him whenever they appeared together. Imagine being part of a crowd enraptured by the presence of Bill Clinton, and then having to listen to a speech by John Kerry!

I don't think about that. I wasn't a kid growing up saying one day I'll get an Oscar and make a speech. That wasn't on my mind. So what I do is the best work I can do.

I never had a speech from my father 'this is what you must do or shouldn't do' but I just learned to be led by example. My father wasn't perfect.

One day I heard a speech of Hitler. In this speech he said that the German factory worker and the German labourer must make common cause with the German intellectual worker.

Outside speech, the association that is made in the memory between words having something in common creates different groups, series, families, within which very diverse relations obtain but belonging to a single category: these are associative relations.

Within speech, words are subject to a kind of relation that is independent of the first and based on their linkage: these are syntagmatic relations, of which I have spoken.

Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding.

The most censored speech in America today is not flag-burning, pornography, or the press.

Literature is the immortality of speech.

We need a free media, not just freedom of speech.