Nature doesn't make long speeches.

Nobody wants to hear long speeches.

— Rick Nielsen

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

— Anonymous

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

— Raphael Varane

With God there is no need for long speeches.

— Jane Frances de Chantal

Better than a long speech is a single quietening word.

— Gautama Buddha

[Beowolf] is considered an epic because of its long speeches, its digressions, its repetition, and its being required.

— Richard Armour

The leader teaches more through being than through doing. The quality of one's silence conveys more than long speeches.

— John Heider

But all the long speeches, all the interminable days and hours that people had spent talking about my soul, had left me with the…

— Albert Camus

What is the short meaning of the long speech?

— Friedrich Schiller

Every man should study conciseness in speaking; it is a sign of ignorance not to know that long speeches, though they may please the…

— Owen Feltham

I'm going to make a long speech because I've not had the time to prepare a short one.

— Winston Churchill

A political movement must keep in touch with reality and the prevailing conditions. Long speeches, the shaking of fists, the banging of tables, and…

— Nelson Mandela

I am sorry to have made such a long speech, but I did not have time to write a shorter one.

— Winston Churchill

Especially in repetitive music, to make a long piece of music you have to be extremely skilled in your sleight of hand. Just to…

— Oneohtrix Point Never

Life is short, but its ills make it seem long.

— Publilius Syrus