It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work 15 and 16 hours a day. I saw him once… — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
Let the words of a virgin, though in a good cause, and to as good purpose, be neither violent, many, nor first,… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
The feminine graces of Madame de Sevigne's genius are exquisitely charming; but the philosophy and eloquence of Madame de Stael are above… — James Mackintosh Copy Share Image
“... eloquence is merely the product of intelligence. History is not shaped by men of genius. It is shaped by men of… — Taona Dumisani Chiveneko Copy Share Image
Enthusiasm begets enthusiasm, eloquence produces conviction for the moment; but it is only by truth to Nature and the everlasting institutions of… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
None but those who have loved can be supposed to understand the oratory of the eye, the mute eloquence of a look,… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Rhetoric completes the tools of learning. Dialectic zeros in on the logic of things, of particular systems of thought or subjects. Rhetoric… — William Blake Copy Share Image
from you, my dear Erasmus, let me obtain this request, that just as I bear with your ignorance in these matters, so… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The open letter has always been an interesting rhetorical strategy - a way of delivering a pointed message to a specific individual… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
He that makes himself famous by his eloquence, justice or arms illustrates his extraction, let it be never so mean; and gives… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
In pulpit eloquence, the grand difficulty lies here--to give the subject all the dignity it so fully deserves, without attaching any importance… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The truest and greatest Poetry, (while subtly and necessarily always rhythmic, and distinguishable easily enough) can never again, in the English language,… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I promised myself that I would write as well as I can, tell the truth, not to tell everything I know, but… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The pleasure of eloquence is in greatest part owing often to the stimulus of the occasion which produces it- - to the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Give me the clear blue sky above my head, and the green turf beneath my feet, a winding road before me, and… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“It was of course Jefferson’s gift at one time or another to put with eloquence the “right” answer to every moral question.… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The longer I live, the more I have come to value the gift of eloquence. Every American youth, if he desires for… — George Frisbie Hoar Copy Share Image
Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratie, Shook the arsenal, and fulmin'd… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Two things happened. The creative side of my career was harmed. When I'd sit down and write under the influence of coke,… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Profane eloquence is transfered from the bar, where Le Maitre, Pucelle, and Fourcroy formerly practised it, and where it has become obsolete,… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Tis not for golden eloquence I pray, A godlike tongue to move a stony heart-- Methinks it were full well to be… — Frederick Tennyson Copy Share Image
“The sole object of Logic is the guidance of one's own thoughts: the communication of those thoughts to others falls under the… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
true influence over another comes not from a moments eloquence nor from any happily chosen word, but from the accumulation of a… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
The charges we bring against others often come home to ourselves; we inveigh against faults which are as much ours as theirs;… — St. Jerome Copy Share Image
The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the… — Mary Astell Copy Share Image
Thare is no chance of hurrying bussiness here like in the legeslature of a State thare is such a desposition here to… — Davy Crockett Copy Share Image
The 1960s was a period when writers in the West began to be aware of the extraordinary eloquence and popular attraction of… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
President Obama certainly has an impressive gift for eloquence, and he has a global vision, as did my father. He doesn't rattle… — Martin Luther King III Copy Share Image
The ambition of superior sensibility and superior eloquence disposes the lovers of arts to receive rapture at one time, and communicate it… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
You have witchcraft in your lips, there is more eloquence in a sugar touch of them than in the tongues of the… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I have carefully and regularly perused the Holy Scriptures, and am of opinion that the volume contains more sublimity, purer morality, more… — William Jones Copy Share Image
Creative expression requires an ability to work with feelings and channel them. Frustration, dissatisfaction, and even a sense of desperation may help… — Shaun McNiff Copy Share Image
This is that eloquence the ancients represented as lightning, bearing down every opposer; this the power which has turned whole assemblies into… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
The arts of speech are rhetoric and poetry. Rhetoric is the art of transacting a serious business of the understanding as if… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
If something's public then it seems like the important thing is the person in that public. And the notion of rhetoric. I… — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
Silence is one great art of conversation. He is not a fool who knows when to hold his tongue; and a person… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Whoever has received knowledge and eloquence in speech from God should not be silent or secretive but demonstrate it willingly. When a… — Marie de France Copy Share Image
Communication does not depend on syntax, or eloquence, or rhetoric, or articulation but on the emotional context in which the message is… — Edwin H Friedman Copy Share Image
