Speaker Quotes
304 quotes by 259 authors
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As the chief speaker at the dedication of the national cemetery at the Gettysburg Battlefield, statesman Edward Everett wrote to Lincoln: I should be glad…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Bill Clinton was a very, very good speaker. But like many people who are great speakers and great thinkers and have a lot of energy…
— Robert Reich
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To exclude from positions of trust and command all those below the age of 44 would have kept Jefferson from writing the Declaration of Independence,…
— John F. Kennedy
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When speech is divorced from speaker and word from meaning, what is left is just ritual, language as ritual.
— Ellen Goodman
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All over the world kids and women [are] getting killed right now over beliefs, this is silly to get angry over. If it bothers you…
— Diplo
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Every minister, lecturer and public speaker know the discouragement of pouring himself of herself out to an audience and not receiving a single ripple of…
— Dale Carnegie
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Democratic Rep. Charles Schumer of New York made a plea to Livingston, the incoming speaker. These new hearings, these new subpoenas wave a red flag…
— Charles Schumer
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We, Norton I, do hereby decree that the offices of President, Vice President, and Speaker of the House of Representatives are, from and after this…
— Emperor Norton
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It's interesting what former presidents do when they leave office. Bush is now working as a motivational speaker. And if you want to be motivated,…
— David Letterman
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There should be relentless exposure of and attack upon every evil practice, whether in politics, in business, or in social life. I hail as a…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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Families, like countries, take their prophets unkindly, but a verse-speaker in the house is dishonor to be hooted.
— Dylan Thomas
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George Bernard Shaw of England stopped over just long enough to make one speech in Bombay, India, started a war and 100 Indians killed each…
— Will Rogers
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When the vain speaker has sat down, and the people say 'what a good speech,' it still takes an ounce to balance an ounce.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The American people are very, very ready for a woman president. They're far ahead of the politicians. I always thought it would be much easier…
— Nancy Pelosi
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The teachings of Osho, in fact, encompass many religions, but he is not defined by any of them. He is an illuminating speaker on Zen,…
— Nevill Drury
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The arrow belongs not to the archer when it has once left the bow; the word no longer belongs to the speaker when it has…
— Heinrich Heine
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The great improvement of the radio over the telephone is that it may be turned off without offending the speaker.
— Richard Armour
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A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail... Fluency, grace, logical order,…
— Charles Horton Cooley
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The higher the moral tone, the more suspect the speaker.
— Mason Cooley
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Lincoln was the greatest speaker and he was ridiculed for how he looked, you know?
— Kevin Costner
Who Wrote These Speaker Quotes
259 authors contributed a total of 304 Speaker Quotes, led by these top contributors: