Speakers Quotes · Page 5

Try to be as good a listener as you are a speaker. Don't just put the emphasis on saying things. Listen.

— Jennifer Lynch

For a season, a gifted speaker can inspire with his words, but for a lifetime John McCain has inspired with his deeds.

— Sarah Palin

Kind words are benedictions. The are not only instruments of power, but of benevolence and courtesy; blessings both to the speaker and…

— Arthur Frederick Saunders

If you asked me if I'd rather be Speaker or a very senior minister, I'd say Speaker.

— John Bercow

Wilson stopped and stood silent. Inattention dies a quick and sure death when a speaker does that.

— Mark Twain

Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.

— Dale Carnegie

Think of yourself as a role model for others-showing that you can be kind, generous, loving, and rich!

— T. Harv Eker

“Nothing complements a fast mind better than a slow tongue. And nothing aggravates a slow mind better than a fast tongue.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

For, though the origin of most of our words is forgotten, each word was at first a stroke of genius, and obtained…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am committed to working with Speaker Hastert and the other members of the Illinois congressional delegation to do all that I…

— Bill Lipinski

Popularizing - much less venturing beyond one's secure turf - was frowned upon for many years. I think I probably internalized the…

— Tony Judt

Jim Rohn is one of the most articulate, powerful, thought-provoking speakers I've seen. His unique delivery and style puts him head and…

— Harvey Mackay

In an ideal world, one populated by vegetarians and Esperanto speakers, derivatives would be used for one thing only: reducing levels of…

— John Lanchester

PLAIN SUPERFICIALITY is the character of a speech, in which any two points being taken, the speaker is found to lie wholly…

— Lewis Carroll

Sometimes it's the mistakes that end up leading you into new territory .. like the guitar solo on 'Peelin' Taters' - I…

— Junior Brown

Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he…

— Jonathan Swift

On the one hand, there is no question that English - frequently bad English - has become the universal language of scholarship.…

— Henry Rosovsky

Well, I think that there's a clear record, I worked with Ronald Reagan in the early '80s and his recovery program translated…

— Newt Gingrich

English audiences of working people are like an instrument that responds to the player. Thought ripples up and down them, and if…

— Mary Heaton Vorse

The office of Speaker is almost as ancient as Parliament itself. It emerged in the Middle Ages when the Commons - the…

— John Allen Fraser

My toils in the quotation field have led me to formulate two or three laws about the way people use and abuse…

— Nigel Rees

We did tons of research. We went to visit a prison. We had speakers. We have read tons of supplementary material, books…

— Jenji Kohan

Every idea is an incitement. It offers itself for belief, and if believed it is acted on unless some other belief outweighs…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

By focusing on the interior of a speaker's larynx and using infrared, he was able to convert the visible vibrations of the…

— Damon Knight

[On Italian:] One may almost call it a language that talks of itself, and always seems more witty than its speakers.

— Madame de Stael

When the vain speaker has sat down, and the people say 'what a good speech,' it still takes an ounce to balance…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are two types of speakers: those that are nervous and those that are liars.

— Mark Twain

There is only one group to blame for the continued suffering of these innocent victims: the House majority and their Speaker, John…

— Chris Christie

I love a finished speaker, I really, truly do I don't mean one who's polished, I just mean one who's through.

— Richard Armour

A career public speaker is not what I'm called to be. I'm called to be a critic.

— Tony Campolo

I went from MC to being MS, this microphone controller is the motivational speaker.

— Lupe Fiasco

Mr. Speaker, Delaware River's regional ports handle approximately 58 million tons of cargo yearly.

— Anonymous

If it requires great tact to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Some days you exist like the last speaker of an extinct language. These are the silences that litter the heart.

— Richard Jackson

Headphone aren't big enough these days. Why not just throw a couple of stereo speakers in a full face motorcycle helmet.

— Dov Davidoff

“The real architect of a life is the hard and almost impossible circumstances one faces.”

— John Paul Warren

As long as I'm not selling out the people that ride or die with me, I'm glad I'm not an MC. I'm…

— Young Jeezy

I happen to believe, and I think many others do, Donald Trump is probably the great public speaker in those large arenas…

— Stephen K. Bannon

Having five children in six years is the best training in the world for Speaker of the House.

— Nancy Pelosi

I used my talent as a speaker giving lectures to young people at schools in Hungary and I speak against hatred and…

— Csanad Szegedi