A good speech is like a miniskirt--long enough to over all…

A good speech should be like a woman's skirt: long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest

— Anonymous

“A good speech is like a woman's skirt: short enough to hold your attention, long enough to cover the subject”

— Jonathan Tropper

“A good speech should be a like a woman’s skirt: long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest. —WINSTON CHURCHILL”

— Bill McGowan

If I have long hair, I go for more... fitting, like a miniskirt dress or a very tight black leather outfit.

— Jamie Park

“A blog post is like a miniskirt … it needs to be long enough to cover the essentials but short enough to keep it…

— Joe Pulizzi

Human speech is like a cracked cauldron on which we bang out tunes that make bears dance, when what we want is to move…

— Gustave Flaubert

“Speech is like an arrow; it is necessary to aim it by way of reflection before uttering anything.”

— Burhan al-Din Al-Zarnuji

A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.

— Lord Mansfield

A speech is like an airplane engine. It may sound like hell but you've got to go on.

— William T. Piper

Freedom of speech doesn't protect speech you like; it protects speech you don't like.

— Larry Flynt

Speech is like a medicine, a small dose of which cures but an excess of which kills.

— Hazrat Ali

Commercial speech is like obscenity... we can't seem to define it, but we know it when we see it.

— Jef I Richards

“...and since, human speech is like a cracked tin kettle, on which we hammer out tunes to make bears dance when we long to…

— Flaubert Gustave

La parole humaine est comme un chaudron fe" le o u' nous battons des me lodies a' faire danser les ours, quand on voudrait…

— Gustave Flaubert

I love the kookiness of our speech. Speech is like wonderful magic and poetry in itself. I've always had to crib a lot from…

— Junot Diaz