I don't let a poem go into the world unless I feel that I've transformed the experience in some way. Even poems… — Stephen Dunn Copy Share Image
I mostly used the studio devices, because I knew what they had. Generally I find I'm happy to use whatever's around. If… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Ladies and gentleman," he said over the speakers, "welcome aboard this recently liberated Gulfstream V. If I could have your attention for… — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
I think I'm comfortable making myself, or my speaker, larger than life if I can then cut myself off at the ankles.… — Randall Mann Copy Share Image
An effective speaker can do more damage or more good in a well-stated minute than an angry klutz could do in half… — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
And in cases where profound conviction has been wrought, the eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Chin held high, Miss Ohio beamed at an imagined crowd. "I want to be a motivational speaker." "What are you going to… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
I haven't seen any claim that Piraha lacks recursion, that is, that there are a finite number of sentences or sentence frames.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The decision for me was whether to have 'The Father' be a book that told a story - from the point of… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
When you can't get a miracle, you can still be a miracle for someone else. — Nick Vujicic Copy Share Image
There is a certain manner of self-absorption in speaking that always renders the speaker disagreeable. For it is as great a folly… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
The traveler to the United States will do wellto prepare himself for the class-consciousness of the natives. This differs from the already… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
I've noticed that most authors who are pastors or speakers write books whose message is derived from a sermon series they did… — Matthew West Copy Share Image
Mr. Speaker, in seeking to return to the United Nations, the Republic of China on Taiwan will once again ask diplomatic allies… — Nick Lampson Copy Share Image
In the first weeks of the Obama administration, 'bipartisanship' was the reigning buzzword, and when the Beltway thinks 'bipartisan,' it pictures President… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
“Life of any real value or substance is not formed during good times merely enjoyed.” — John Paul Warren Copy Share Image
It's really beneath the office of a member of Congress to say something that outrageous. The fact that she was once the… — Trey Gowdy Copy Share Image
When speech is divorced from speaker and word from meaning, what is left is just ritual, language as ritual. — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
A dull speaker, like a plain woman, is credited with all the virtues, for we charitably suppose that a surface so unattractive… — A. P. Herbert Copy Share Image
We decipherers cannot afford to be as picky as the linguist, who can always run back to a native speaker for a… — E. J. W. Barber Copy Share Image
President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner played golf this weekend. Obama’s handicap is Joe Biden. — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
If America is destroyed, it may be by Americans who salute the flag, sing the national anthem, march in patriotic parades, cheer… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
The receipt to make a speaker, and an applauded one too, is short and easy. Take common sense quantum sufficit; add a… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
America already holds the record for freak movements. Now we have a new one. It's called "Restoring Confidence." Rich men who never… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Who does not delight in oratory? How we gather to hear even an ordinary speaker! How often is a jury swayed and… — David Josiah Brewer Copy Share Image
