Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
A great many political speeches are literary parricides; they kill their fathers. — George D. Prentice Copy Share Image
“the best argument against a democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.” — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
If you cannot close the mouth of one who reviles his brother, at least avoid conversation with him. — Isaac of Nineveh Copy Share Image
I try and create choreography that's in conversation with the music that the audience is hearing. — Justin Peck Copy Share Image
That awkward moment when your teacher gives a 20 minute speech about not wasting time.. — Katrina Copy Share Image
Your listening, not your speaking, is your most direct access to leadership effectiveness. — Al Ritter Copy Share Image
Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounc'd it to you, trippingly on the tongue. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
As we work to secure our data and communications from hackers, we must recognize that our citizens face a far broader array… — William Barr Copy Share Image
Of course a magazine is usually more interesting than a conversation, because so much more time and preparation has gone into it. — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
I feel that all the messages in the Conversations with God dialogues came from God. And many of them have been considered… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
“Baby, sometimes what I’m thinking doesn’t translate into words. You’re going to have to badger them out of me until I get… — Tessa Bailey Copy Share Image
I like to think I'm a grown-up, but it's just nice you can have a civil conversation with your boss, you're both… — Kyle Walker Copy Share Image
Cat talk is a complicated, self-centered language. If you speak to your cat first, it probably won't speak back. Cats initiate conversations. — Jean Craighead George Copy Share Image
The idea that you make an experience that requires a conversation in a public place is training for the fact that culture… — Edwin Schlossberg Copy Share Image
Jazz music is the power of now. There is no script. It's conversation. The emotion is given to you by musicians as… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
“We want them to have appropriate conversations. They need to live appropriate lives. We are guarding against all inappropriate ideas and thoughts… — Noah Cicero Copy Share Image
“In a “secret speech” to the twentieth Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Nikita Khrushchev made a sensational revelation… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Copy Share Image
I've learned that guys can make the best of friends... my best friend is a guy, and I can tell him anything… — Ana Chable Copy Share Image
If you want to play something that you hear, you need to listen with your mind's eye. You've heard of the mind's… — Steve Vai Copy Share Image
When you spend your day writing comedy, particularly with others, the discussion of jokes and how far to push things with a… — Romesh Ranganathan Copy Share Image
Individually we can work on ourselves. By working on your own ego and developing truth, control, and an equitable inner dialogue, you… — Stuart Wilde Copy Share Image
“During that very first conversation, about the araucaria, he called himself the Steppenwolf, and this too estranged and disturbed me a little.… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
We think that providing this kind of secure private means of communication for the masses for 99.999 percent of people that have… — Pavel Durov Copy Share Image