A popular speaker, however unpopular and insignificant, has only to wind up his speech with half-a-dozen lines of Shakespeare (and to make… — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
Why tell me that a man is a fine speaker, if it is not the truth that he is speaking? — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Speech is highly elliptical. It would scarcely be endurable otherwise. Ellipsis is indispensable to the writer or speaker who wants to be… — Bergen Evans Copy Share Image
John Boehner will be the new speaker unless, out of habit, he blocks his own confirmation. — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
Mr. Speaker, a new report says only 7% of scientists believe in God. That is right. And the reason they gave was… — James Traficant Copy Share Image
This weekend the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC, featured several speakers including Sarah Palin and Phil Robertson from 'Duck Dynasty.' It was… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
Walking back from the convention site I chatted with a normal Bostonian for several blocks -- who must have identified me through… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
As the music played over the speakers and the waterfall in the pool filled the silence around us, I knew that without… — Abbi Glines Copy Share Image
Give Obama a script he has made his own, and he is the motivational speaker to end all speakers. Tony Robbins cloned… — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
I have come to feel strongly that the greatest service I can still render to my fellow men would be that I… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Basically, asking me what kind of music I like is like asking what kind of food I like: 'Anything that tastes good,'… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
I will content myself, Mr. Speaker, with those principal motives to union; first, that we are in the rapids and must go… — Thomas D'Arcy McGee Copy Share Image
In my own time there have been inventions of this sort, transparent windows tubes for diffusing warmth equally through all parts of… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
We were fools and now we were driving to our deaths in a rental car. Janet Jackson was tinkling from the speakers,… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
Mr. Speaker, democracy works best when the American electorate is engaged and informed. — Melissa Bean Copy Share Image
I expect if you're a professional public speaker, you probably wouldn't want to go onstage and sing and play drums. — Neil Peart Copy Share Image
George Bush, Dick Cheney, every one of the speakers praised John Kerry's war record. No one said he was unfit. They said… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is frequently said that speech that is intentionally provocative and therefore invites physical retaliation can be punished or suppressed. Yet, plainly… — Thomas I. Emerson Copy Share Image
For a season, a gifted speaker can inspire with his words, but for a lifetime John McCain has inspired with his deeds. — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image
The path of things is silent. Will they suffer a speaker to go with them? — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I know that in a poem, even when the speaker is speaking from the poet's experience, there's always something that's borrowed, some… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
Just recognize that you are not going to become a comfortable public speaker overnight. It can take a long time. — Dana Perino Copy Share Image
Nevertheless we have this curious spectacle: daily the trained parrot in the pulpit gravely delivers himself of these ironies, which he has… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The role at the DCCC as well as the role of chief deputy whip - I wouldn't be where I am in… — Joseph Crowley Copy Share Image
