I see, he replied, that there are some composers of speeches who do not know how to use the speeches which they make, just as the makers of lyres do not know how to use the lyres; and also some who are of themselves unable to compose speeches, but are able to use the speeches which the others make for them; and this proves that the art of making speeches is not the same as the art of using them.英文原著 · 《Euthydemus》
Once I was rich; but what were riches without children? Hard bread with no water for sop. I asked God for a child. He gave me a daughter; but she was born blind and dumb and deaf. I asked God to take my riches and give her hearing. He gave her hearing; but what was hearing without speech? I asked God to take all I had and give her speech. He gave her speech, but what was speech without sight?英文原著 · 《The Scapegoat》
"All things," rejoined the bridegroom, hearing her words, "have their sense ascertained by speech; in speech they have their basis, and from speech they proceed; consequently a falsifier of speech falsifies everything. If truly you are desirous of going to him, go!英文原著 · 《Vikram and the Vampire》
EVEN as a young man Conwell won local fame as an orator. At the outbreak of the Civil War he began making patriotic speeches that gained enlistments. After going to the front he was sent back home for a time, on furlough, to make more speeches to draw more recruits, for his speeches were so persuasive, so powerful, so full of homely and patriotic feeling, that the men who heard them thronged into the ranks. And as a preacher he uses persuasion, power, simple and homely eloquence, to draw men to the ranks of Christianity.英文原著 · 《Acres of Diamonds》
In one of his cases the spleen was enlarged. He was inclined to regard the disease as a neurosis. Aphasia is a disease of the faculty of language, that is, a disturbance of the processes by which we see, hear, and at the same time appreciate the meaning of symbols. It includes also the faculty of expressing our ideas to others by means of the voice, gesture, writing, etc. The trouble may be central or in the conducting media. The varieties of aphasia are:--
(1) Amnesia of speech. (2) Amnesia of speech and written language. (3) Amnesia of speech, written language, and gesture.英文原著 · 《Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine》
First, that excellent speech, even speech _really_ excellent, is not, and never was, the chief test of human faculty, or the measure of a man's ability, for any true function whatsoever; on the contrary, that excellent _silence_ needed always to accompany excellent speech, and was and is a much rarer and more difficult gift.英文原著 · 《Latter-Day Pamphlets》
And so the speech that Mr. Clove referred to as homophobic was not hate-speech, it was religiously based speech?美剧 · 《The Good Wife》
Speech, speech. Let's hear from the birthday girl, huh?美剧 · 《Friends》
- You didn't hear the speech. MANNY: I've heard the speech.美剧 · 《Friends》
If the government shuts down one day after the speech, not a single word in the speech matters.美剧 · 《House of Cards》
And it's not, but we think speech -- "My God, little children pick it up somehow, And it's not, but we think speech -- "My God, little children pick it up somehow,演讲 · 《5 predictions, from 1984 ~ Nicholas Negroponte》