Speaking Quotes · Page 11

My accent really comes out when I'm speaking in public or when I'm passionate about something.

— Augustus Sol Invictus

Since I finished my football career, I've had the opportunity to do a lot of public speaking engagements.

— Mark Schlereth

I was working for the CIA and prohibited from speaking publicly.

— Valerie Plame

I'm not such a talkative person, and I don't like speaking in front of a lot of people.

— Bae Suzy

“In the war zone of arguments, debates, criticism - silence is the safe house.”

— Amit Kalantri

“When your speaking style is clear, confident, and concise, your listeners will perceive you as such.”

— Susan C. Young

“Be polite in your speeches. Good information rudely communicated will make no positive difference.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.

— Will Durant

It sounded good. It was a story that Victor Conte told me to use. I was contacted by Dr. Goldman, and that's…

— Kelli White

I can only speak for myself, and hope people hear my words and see me on television speaking for myself. And, hopefully,…

— Jennifer Lopez

Bush is a very poor impromptu speaker. He does fine in small groups but when speaking without a script in front of…

— Peter Schuyler

My greatest fear is speaking in public. You meet, like, um, people who just concentrate on me. I'd rather not have everyone…

— Jennifer Love Hewitt

We have for too long been taught that the sight of a man speaking to himself is a sign of eccentricity or…

— Teju Cole

“Every time you speak, you are either building up yourself for the better or you are limiting yourself for the worse. Words…

— Israelmore Ayivor

There is as much wisdom in listening as there is in speaking - and that goes for all relationships, not just romantic…

— Daniel Dae Kim

I think the state opening of Parliament is an incredibly important occasion, and broadly speaking, the way in which it's done is…

— John Bercow

The first, that their pretensions to this possession of an art properly so called in their art of speaking are entirely unfounded;…

— Friedrich Schleiermacher

To me, writing is a matter of voice. I think like that. The expression I sometimes use to myself is 'actual song.'…

— Robert Pinsky

That is my most comfortable place: close-up beauty shots! I also love to stand and speak in front of people. I can…

— Kim Alexis

Public speaking is not something my mind and body are able to do easily. I sweat profusely with shaky hands to match…

— Stephanie Land

According to Jewish legend, only the very wisest and very holiest rabbis had the power to make golems, animated servants of clay.…

— Kage Baker

Generally speaking, I don't think people know a great deal about the Viking culture, apart from the label that is usually attached…

— Gabriel Byrne

Strictly speaking, intensity in the weight training context refers to the amount of work required to achieve the activity and is proportional…

— John Romaniello

Rolf Ekeus, his appearance can deceive. He looks somewhere between an international diplomat and a mad professor. He's got that sort of…

— Barton Gellman

“Watch out for men who are on speaking terms with the Almighty.”

— Loraine Despres

I'm not speaking, you know, egocentrically at all, but I do have a very wide range.

— Martin Landau

Speaking out is important for me because everyone should be treated equally.

— Lance Bass

There may be other reasons for a man's not speaking in publick than want of resolution: he may have nothing to say.

— Samuel Johnson

In a manner of speaking. I certainly never want to lose my voice as an educator.

— Tim Gunn

To me, part of being an emcee is dedicated to speaking out about what's going on around us.

— Lazarus of Bethany

Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening.

— Dorothy Sarnoff

I think, and I've thought this for a long time, that we live, roughly speaking, in the last generation of human beings.

— Whitfield Diffie

Presidents today spend more time speaking than they do reading or thinking.

— Kathleen Hall Jamieson

I found myself doing so much public speaking, more and more and bigger and bigger.

— Dani Shapiro

“And the too much of my speaking: heaped up round the little crystal dressed in the style of your silence.”

— Paul Celan

“Speaking doesn´t make you a Leader, but if you have Leadership skills, people want to hear you speak.”

— Alin Sav

When I speak to you about myself, I am speaking to you about yourself. How is it you don't see that?

— Victor Hugo

You can express a lot of things, a lot of action without speaking.

— Catherine Deneuve

I don't have a problem with athletes speaking up, but I want to make sure before they speak up, they read up.

— Shannon Sharpe

I know, if I'm speaking to God in any kind of way, I keep myself from using profanity.

— Tech N9ne