Speakers Quotes · Page 24

To use a big word or a foreign word when a small one and a familiar one will answer the same purpose,…

— Joseph Devlin

Transcending class distinctions, the speaker [Stalin] portrays the relation between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat as a mere division of labor. The…

— Leon Trotsky

An essential part of true listening is the discipline of bracketing, the temporary giving up or setting aside of one's own prejudices,…

— M. Scott Peck

Conservative activists want [Stephen] Bannon, somebody who has spent much of the past two years trying to destroy speaker of the House,…

— George Stephanopoulos

Metaphor is, as a common feature of linguistic practice, an incidental expediency, a homely administering of first-aid by mother-wit to jams or…

— Laura Riding

Of Nature itself upon the soul; the sunrise, the haze of autumn, the winter starlight seem interlocutors; the prevailing sense is that…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

One of my favorite things is acting like a speaker or a professor or a CEO of a company and addressing the…

— Reggie Watts

We have to start encouraging women to get into math and science early on in life... But to just say TechCrunch is…

— Michael Arrington

The pure work implies the disappearance of the poet as speaker, who hands over to the words.

— Stephane Mallarme

This fork in the road happens over a hundred times a day, and it's the choices that you make that will determine…

— Liz Murray

The middles cleave to euphemisms not just because they're an aid in avoiding facts. They like them also because they assist their…

— Paul Fussell

Lenin could listen so intently that he exhausted the speaker.

— Isaiah Berlin

Our language is the reflection of ourselves. A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers.

— Cesar Chavez

An effective speaker knows that the success or failure of his talk is not for him to decide - it will be…

— Dale Carnegie

Words belong to nobody, and in themselves they evaluate nothing. But they can serve any speaker and be used for the most…

— Mikhail Bakhtin

Speaker [Paul] Ryan made clear that the Republican congress agrees with [Donald Trump], and [building a wall] that`s something that should be…

— Mark Halperin

Mr. Speaker, we have reached a point in history where some have forgotten that it is the family, not the government, that…

— Jim Ryun

Both law and comedy are heavily focused on thought and viewing all angles. To write a good joke, you have to look…

— Troy Walker

Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of the definition of a marriage as between one man and one woman.

— Randy Neugebauer

I love good, loud speakers.

— Brian Eno

I escaped from slavery and became a leading abolitionist and speaker.

— Frederick Douglass

My family were Russian Jews. They got you to read as soon as you could. And then assumed you would read a…

— Grace Paley

There are a lot of lousy conferences that pander to sponsors. They end up creating an opportunity for boring speakers who are…

— Tim O'Reilly

Aristotle writes that persuasion is based on three things: the ethos, or personal character of the speaker; the pathos, or getting the…

— Randal Marlin

My dad is from Japanese descent, my mom is from Swedish descent and, through marriages and divorces, a pretty multicultural family -…

— Cary Fukunaga