Speeches Quotes · Page 4

Speeches are more important in politics than talking points, as a rule, and are better remembered.

— Peggy Noonan

I used to practice my speeches on my tractor while I plowed my daddy's field.

— Jim Hunt

I really respect the work and speeches of Tony Benn. He was a powerful speaker with a huge heart.

— Sara Pascoe

One of the most difficult speeches to prepare is an address to a graduation class, which is why I don't often do…

— Jerry Moran

I'm not one for those motivational speeches. I've always been more of an example guy.

— Carey Price

Speeches? I don't ever feel like I'm giving a speech. I don't look at myself as a motivational speaker.

— Jim Harbaugh

“Be polite in your speeches. Good information rudely communicated will make no positive difference.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

“Carve your name on hearts, not tombstones. A legacy is etched into the minds of others and the stories they share about…

— Shannon Alder

I get terrified the first day I'm on a film set. I get nervous walking down a red carpet. I find making…

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

“So many powerful, inspirational, insightful, hopeful and connected speeches today. It's been a joy to feel the energy of the women's marches…

— Scott Stabile

You talk to me in parables. You may have known that I'm no wordy man, Fine speeches are the instruments of knaves…

— Thomas Otway

I shouldn't want you to be surprised, or to draw any particular inference from my making speeches, or not making speeches, out…

— Calvin Coolidge

When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's…

— Dan Quayle

In 2007, early in the improbable presidential candidacy of Barack Obama, the young first-term senator began a series of foreign-policy speeches that…

— Elliott Abrams

The problem with people who live in a world of speeches and books and theories is they don't know how to fix…

— Kathleen Troia McFarland

I don't think I'm gonna have a lot of rah-rah stand-up riveting speeches. I don't know if that's really the best way…

— Aaron Boone

“These are the three things—volume of sound, modulation of pitch, and rhythm—that a speaker bears in mind. It is those who do…

— Aristotle

“Joshua's ministry was three years of preaching, sometimes three times a day, and although there were some high and low points, I…

— Christopher Moore

“I shall sit down,' replied the cat, sitting down, 'but I shall enter an objection with regard to your last. My speeches…

— Mikhail Bulgakov

I'm not sure that the American people are looking for a lot of speeches. I think what they're looking for is action.…

— Barack Obama

“If I were the Devil . . . I mean, if I were the Prince of Darkness, I would of course, want…

— Paul Harvey

“There was no Disney World then, just rows of orange trees. Millions of them. Stretching for miles And somewhere near the middle…

— Tim Dorsey

“The Nazi salute was performed by public officials in the USA from 1892 through 1942. The researcher Dr. Rex Curry asks 'What…

— Micky Barnetti

The problem with State of the Union speeches is that they are, by their nature and design, alphabet soup. It's hard to…

— Mark McKinnon

Mourinho doesn't need to give long speeches. He's direct and to the point.

— Raphael Varane

It would be desirable if every Government, when it comes to power, should have its old speeches burnt.

— Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden

I would say almost 60 percent of working with Kanye - let's say 53 percent of working with Kanye - is speeches.

— Chance The Rapper

Speeches made to the people are essential to the arousing of enthusiasm for a war.

— Benito Mussolini

I'm all in favour of grand important speeches, but the president then has to link his sermons to a strategy.

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

“The audience are likely to remember only three things from your presentation or speech”

— Stephen Keague

Political speeches are like steer horns. A point here, a point there, and a lot of bull in between.

— Alfred E Neuman

I love English. I learned it from the speeches of Winston Churchill.

— Maurice Druon

“Speeches are like steer horns- A point here, a point there and a lot of bull in between.”

— Anonymous

If leadership is about listening, the great political speeches would have been a little different.

— Frankie Boyle

The speeches to be wary of are those that begin with I'm just going to say a few words.

— Frank Muir

I'm no expert standing at a podium giving speeches. I share heartbeats. Compassion.

— Elizabeth Berkley

Speeches are not magic and there is no great speech without great policy.

— Peggy Noonan

I have reached the conclusion, a bit late perhaps, that speeches should be short.

— Fidel Castro

“It was a joke to the extent in the context of the views that speech.”

— Herman Cain

“In as short a time as Mr. Collins’s long speeches would allow,”

— Anonymous