Speaker Quotes

304 Speaker quotes by 259 unique authors

Mr. Speaker, the fact of the matter is that the Ten Commandments are a historical document that contains moral, ethical, and legal truisms that any… — Cliff Stearns
The relationship of the toastmaster to speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to… — Adlai E. Stevenson
The sanity of the average banquet speaker lasts about two and a half months; at the end of that time he begins to mutter to… — James Thurber
Consider in Washington, around the country today we are talking about balanced budgets, paying down our national debt, getting the economy going, defending ourselves, activist… — J C Watts
I'd make a better U.S. president than George W. Bush. Bush is an idiot. I'm a better public speaker than him. It makes you wonder… — Robbie Williams
In the first weeks of the Obama administration, 'bipartisanship' was the reigning buzzword, and when the Beltway thinks 'bipartisan,' it pictures President Reagan and Democratic… — James Wolcott
Mr. Speaker, I once again find myself compelled to vote against the annual budget resolution for a very simple reason: it makes government bigger. — Ron Paul
Wilson stopped and stood silent. Inattention dies a quick and sure death when a speaker does that. — Mark Twain
Those who choose, conduct, present, and accompany the music may influence the spirit of reverence ... more than a speaker does. — Boyd K. Packer
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good talks. But being considered the best speaker in the computer science department is like being known… — Randy Pausch
It is one of the worst things of sentiment that the voice grows to be more important than the words, and the speaker than that… — Robert Louis Stevenson
And so it was when anyone tried to speak: their minds would become tangled in remembrance. Words became floods of thought with no beginning or… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Whenever I saw her, I felt like I had been living in another country, doing moderately well in another language, and then she showed up… — Ann Patchett
I liked the feeling of love,' [Jonas] confessed. He glanced nervously at the speaker on the wall, reassuring himself that no one was listening. 'I… — Lois Lowry
Order and disorder', said the speaker, 'they each have their beauty. — Orson Scott Card
Anyway, it's like with bikes,' said the first speaker authoritatively. 'I thought I was going to get this bike with seven gears and one of… — Terry Pratchett
What would it mean in practice to eliminate all the 'negative people' from one's life [as demanded by motivational speaker J.P. Maroney]? It might be… — Barbara Ehrenreich
I don't understand why people never say what they mean. It's like the immigrants who come to a country and learn the language but are… — Jodi Picoult
...my little blurb wasn't going to win me any speaker-of-the-year awards, but at least I hadn't tripped and fallen off the stage, crushing and killing… — Jordan Sonnenblick
No speech is ever considered, but only the speaker. It's so much easier to pass judgement on a man than on an idea. — Ayn Rand

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