Verse, singing, and speech have a common origin.
Jean Philippe Rameau
In the world of commercial speech, tobacco advertising bears the earmarks of an endangered species.
Jef I. Richards
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.
Ralph Richardson
Speech is external thought, and thought internal speech.
Antoine Rivarol
I make good money: One speech nets me more than what most people make in six months.
Alain Robert
The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The accent of a man's native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.
In our period, they say there is free speech. They say there is no penalty for poets, There is no penalty for writing poems. They say this. This is... →
Muriel Rukeyser