Speech And Writing Quotes:

Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.

- Gore Vidal

source: FaceBook post by Gore Vidal from Nov 18, 2010

topic: Sarcastic, Book, Writing, Speech And Writing, Speaking In Public

In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

- George Orwell

source: George Orwell (1956). “The Orwell Reader: Fiction, Essays, and Reportage”, New York : Harcourt, Brace

topic: Time, Writing, Political Language, Speech And Writing, Political Speeches

Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we supposed to choke our natural self into the weird, lying, barbarous, unreal, white speech and writing habits that the schools lay down like holy law.

- June Jordan

topic: Brother, Lying, Writing, Speech And Writing

In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible... Thus, political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging, and sheer cloudy vagueness... Political language [is] designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable.

- George Orwell

topic: Lying, Writing, Political, Vagueness, Speech And Writing

Not being able to read and write music is not the same as being illiterate in speech and writing.

- Yanni

topic: Writing, Speech, Able, Speech And Writing

Many words and expressions which only a matter of decades ago were considered so distastefully explicit that, were they merely to be breathed in public, the perpetrator would be shunned, barred from polite society, and in extreme cases shot through the lungs, are now thought to be very healthy and proper, and their use in everyday speech and writing is evidence of a well-adjusted, relaxed and totally un****ed-up personality.

- Douglas Adams

source: Douglas Adams (2010). “The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.516, Del Rey

topic: Writing, Expression, Personality, Speech And Writing, Perpetrators

If unbridled licence of speech and writing be granted to all, nothing will remain sacred and inviolate; even the highest and truest mandates of nature, justly held to be the common and noblest heritage of the human race, will not be spared. Thus, truth being gradually obscured by darkness, pernicious and manifold error, as too often happens, will easily prevail.

- Pope Leo XIII

source: Pope Leo XIII (1990). “A Light in the Heavens: Great Encyclical Letters of Pope Leo XIII”, p.108, TAN Books

topic: Writing, Errors, Race, Manifold, Speech And Writing

I suspect that music has qualities both of speech and writing - partly built in, partly individually constructed - and this goes on all through one's life.

- Oliver Sacks

source: Source: www.spiegel.de

topic: Writing, Quality, Goes On, Speech And Writing