Speakers Quotes

370 Speakers quotes by 306 unique authors

The higher the moral tone, the more suspect the speaker. — Mason Cooley
Lincoln was the greatest speaker and he was ridiculed for how he looked, you know? — Kevin Costner
If a university official's letter accusing a speaker of having a proclivity to commit speech crimes before she's given the speech - which then leads… — Ann Coulter
Before I'd written movies, I never could do big set-piece scenes with a lot of different speakers - when you've got twelve people around a… — Joan Didion
To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker. — Frederick Douglass
There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us. Otherwise, you know,… — Barbara Ehrenreich
I love good, loud speakers. — Brian Eno
Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught. — Sydney J. Harris
Then as the years went on and my listening became more deliberate, I would climb up on an arm of our big sofa to get… — Seamus Heaney
Mr. Speaker, in seeking to return to the United Nations, the Republic of China on Taiwan will once again ask diplomatic allies to present its… — Nick Lampson
For us as writers, it's really important to have songs we believe in - even before sometimes we shoot a scene. If we have a… — Denis Leary
Music as background to me becomes like a mosquito, an insect. In the studio we have big speakers, and to me that's the way music… — David Lynch
As a speaker, business leader or marketer of any type, the onus is now on each of us to become equally capable of communicating very… — Simon Mainwaring
As any speaker will tell you, when you address a large number of people from a stage, you try to make eye contact with people… — Simon Mainwaring
Done correctly, everyone from individual speakers to large organizations can inspire citizens and customers to spread a message using their own social channels, and in… — Simon Mainwaring
I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures… — H. L. Mencken
On the day I started college in 1979, no woman had ever been on the United States Supreme Court or served as the Speaker of… — Dee Dee Myers
A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key… — Robert Orben
Every speaker has a mouth; An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it's filled with wisdom. Sometimes it's filled with feet. — Robert Orben
Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize the Peace Corps as it reached its 45th anniversary on March 1, 2006. — Solomon Ortiz
If Obama fails to win reelection, let the blame be first laid at the door of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who at a… — Camille Paglia
For a season, a gifted speaker can inspire with his words, but for a lifetime John McCain has inspired with his deeds. — Sarah Palin
Being the first woman speaker and breaking the marble ceiling is pretty important. Now it's time to move on. — Nancy Pelosi
Look at almost any passage, and you'll find that a paragraph has five or six metaphors in it. It's not that the speaker is trying… — Steven Pinker
Semantics is about the relation of words to thoughts, but it also about the relation of words to other human concerns. Semantics is about the… — Steven Pinker

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