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.
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Peggy Noonan Quotes
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.
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Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson 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.
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Gore Vidal Quotes
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.
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G.B. Trudeau Quotes
Why doesn't the fellow who says, "I'm no speechmaker," let it go at that instead of giving a demonstration?
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Frank McKinney Hubbard Quotes
The best way to sound like you know what you're talking about is to know what you're talking about.
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Author Unknown Quotes
The problem with speeches isn't so much not knowing when to stop, as knowing when not to begin.
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Frances Rodman Quotes
It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
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Mark Twain Quotes
There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.
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Dale Carnegie Quotes
I sometimes marvel at the extraordinary docility with which Americans submit to speeches.
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Adlai E. Stevenson Quotes
His speeches left the impression of an army of pompous phrases moving over the landscape in search of an idea.
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Author Unknown Quotes
When a sermon at length comes to an end, people rise and praise God, and they feel the same way after many other speeches.
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John Andrew Holmes Quotes
Oratory is the power to talk people out of their sober and natural opinions.
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Joseph Chatfield Quotes
Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught.
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Sydney J. Harris Quotes