Communication Quote by Bill McGowan

“A good speech is like a woman's skirt: short enough to hold your attention, long enough to cover the subject”

— Jonathan Tropper

A good speech should be like a woman's skirt: long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest

— Anonymous

“I try to make my comments like a woman's skirt: long enough to be respectable and short enough to be interesting. ”

— Adam Clayton Powell

“A good speech is like a miniskirt--long enough to over all the vital parts, short enough to entice and captivate listeners.”

— Naa Shalman

“(Exchange with Winston Churchill) Churchill explains that having a woman in Parliament was like having one intrude on him in the bathroom, to which…

— Nancy Astor the Viscountess Astor

A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.

— Lord Mansfield

A great speech can make you remember something about what you believe, about who you are, about who you want to be. It's rare…

— Jon Lovett

I have reached the conclusion, a bit late perhaps, that speeches should be short.

— Fidel Castro

No one ever complains about a speech being too short!

— Ira Hayes

If you look at the copies of Churchill's speeches that have survived, they are heavily marked up. He was scrupulous about the impact of…

— Anthony McCarten

“It is indeed strange, given the heavy emphasis placed by chroniclers on Churchill's sheer magnitude of personality, that the ingredient of pure ambition should…

— Christopher Hitchens

I am sorry to have made such a long speech, but I did not have time to write a shorter one.

— Winston Churchill