Address Quote by Bob Sheppard

I think it is important to begin with a statement in your speech that grabs the attention of the audience. I try to make…

— Charles R. Swindoll

I'm just trying to stretch the public space wider and make it more open so that a wider variety of people and faces and…

— Deeyah Khan

The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.

— Oliver Goldsmith

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.

— Cyril Connolly

I believe that public space should be intentional: it should be obvious that you belong,

— Janet Echelman

We talk a lot about our right to freedom of expression, but we need to talk more about our responsibility to freedom of expression.…

— Monica Lewinsky

My father gave me these hints on speech-making: Be sincere... be brief... be seated.

— James Roosevelt

I am comfortable with my level of public discourse.

— Neil Armstrong

Keep your exclamation points under control. You are allowed no more than two or three per 100,000 words of prose.

— Elmore Leonard

The scope of what I have to say determines the length of what I write.

— Edward M. Lerner

And how is clarity to be achieved? Mainly by taking trouble and by writing to serve people rather than to impress them.

— F. L. Lucas

What I'm constantly striving for in my prose is clarity. So that, ideally, the writing will become so transparent that the reader will forget…

— Jonathan Lethem