Art Quote by Bennett Cerf Download Open image “Oratory is the art of making a loud noise sound like a deep thought.” — Bennett Cerf ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Deep thought Loud Loud noises Noise Oratory Philosophy of Mind Sound Teaching
ORATORY, n. A conspiracy between speech and action to cheat the understanding. A tyranny tempered by stenography. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
There is nothing like oratory, it is a skill that can turn a commoner into a king. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
An orator is a man who says what he thinks and feels what he says. — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
An orator can hardly get beyond commonplaces: if he does he gets beyond his hearers. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“There is an anaesthetic of familiarity, a sedative of ordinariness, which dulls the senses and hides the wonder of existence.” — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There was the noise itself, which he thought of vaguely as the noise of classical music, sameish and rhetorical, full of feelings people surely… — Alan Hollinghurst Copy Share Image
The orator puts off his individuality, and is then most eloquent when most silent. He listens while he speaks, and is a hearer along… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Sounds are the echo of the "Harmony of the Spheres" which man took into himself when he came down from the divine-spiritual world into… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
Television, I love it, everything that happened before television lumped together, never caused folks to turn on a street to stare at me, or… — Bennett Cerf Copy Share Image
A person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed. — Bennett Cerf Copy Share Image
“Coleridge was a drug addict. Poe was an alcoholic. Marlowe was killed by a man whom he was treacherously trying to stab. Pope took… — Bennett Cerf Copy Share Image
The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed. — Bennett Cerf Copy Share Image
Everybody was being decent, and when people are decent, thing work out for everybody. That has been my theory all through life. If you're… — Bennett Cerf Copy Share Image
Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you. — Bennett Cerf Copy Share Image
Football season: The only time of the year when a man can walk down the street with a blond on one arm and a… — Bennett Cerf Copy Share Image
They tell about a fifteen-year-old boy in an orphans' home who had an incurable stutter. One Sunday the minister was detained and the boy… — Bennett Cerf Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
