“I heard that Mayor Rivers’ speeches are absolutely riveting,” Ethan joked, winking. “Oh, definitely.” My words were drenched in sarcasm. “I believe he called us strong, clever, and capable. There may even have been some irreplaceable, brilliant, and extraordinary thrown in there as well. Most of the speech was one big, fake thesaurus recitation.”

“Some of the most powerful speeches I have given have been delivered in the dedicated silence of my actions.”

“Poetry's the speech of kings. You're one of thoseShakespeare gives the comic bits to: prose!All poetry (even Cockney Keats?) you see's been dubbed by [Us] into RP,Received Pronunciation, please believe [Us]your speech is in the hands of the Receivers.”

“For jokes as well as justice come in with speech.- Aslan, The Magician's Nephew”

“He winks at me, and the surge of butterflies in my stomach is so strong I think I may throw up right there. I need something to calm my nerves. The most obvious remedy is more alcohol. They don't call it liquid courage for nothing.”

“Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictory word, preserves contact—it is silence which isolates.”