Quotes on speeches
A speech is poetry: cadence, rhythm, imagery, sweep! A speech reminds us that words, like children, have the power to make dance the dullest beanbag of a heart.
Noonan, Peggy
Never be grandiloquent when you want to drive home a searching truth. Don't whip with a switch that has the leaves on, if you want it to tingle.
Beecher, Henry Ward
The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
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.
Vidal, Gore
The best way to sound like you know what you're talking about is to know what you're talking about.
Unknown, Author
It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
Twain, Mark
I sometimes marvel at the extraordinary docility with which Americans submit to speeches.
Stevenson, Adlai E.
His speeches left the impression of an army of pompous phrases moving over the landscape in search of an idea.
Unknown, Author
When a sermon at length comes to an end, people rise and praise God, and they feel the same way after many other speeches.
Holmes, John Andrew
Oratory is the power to talk people out of their sober and natural opinions.
Chatfield, Joseph
Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught.
Harris, Sydney J.