Communication Quote by Frank Muir Download Open image “The speeches to be wary of are those that begin with I'm just going to say a few words.” — Frank Muir ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Communication Few words Language Speech
One of the areas I have a little less confidence in is giving any kind of a speech. — Danica Patrick Copy Share Image
A life spent writing has taught me to be wary of words. Those that seem clearest are often the most treacherous. — Amin Maalouf Copy Share Image
The very best impromptu speeches are the ones written well in advance. — Ruth Gordon Copy Share Image
When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a… — Dan Quayle Copy Share Image
It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
I have reached the conclusion, a bit late perhaps, that speeches should be short. — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
The problem with speeches isn't so much not knowing when to stop, as knowing when not to begin. — Frances Rodman Copy Share Image
Oh my God, you guys, I seriously do not have a speech prepared whatsoever. I'm shaking right now. — Christina Aguilera Copy Share Image
When I give a lot of speeches, they're always on the fly. I mean, I know what I'm going to say roughly, but I… — Vince Flynn Copy Share Image
It has been said that a bride's attitude towards her betrothed can be summed up in three words: Aisle. Alter. Hymn. — Frank Muir Copy Share Image
The golden rule when reading the menu is, if you cannot pronounce it, you cannot afford it. — Frank Muir Copy Share Image
Strategy is buying a bottle of fine wine when you take a lady out for dinner. Tactics is getting her to drink it. — Frank Muir Copy Share Image
Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude. — Frank Muir Copy Share Image
A golf ball is white, dimpled like a bishop's knees, and is the size of small mandarin oranges or those huge pills which vets… — Frank Muir Copy Share Image
Hotel tea is when you have to mix together a plastic envelope containing too much sugar, a small plastic pot of something which is… — Frank Muir Copy Share Image
Some breakfast food manufacturer hit upon the simple notion of emptying out the leavings of carthorse nose bags, adding a few other things like… — Frank Muir Copy Share Image
The glances over cocktails That seem to be so sweet Don't seem quite so amorous Over Shredded Wheat — Frank Muir Copy Share Image
Some people still believe you should just fall in line with what's going on - and that's scary. It makes a mockery of freedom… — Emily Robison Copy Share Image
The problem posed by indirect speech acts is the problem of how it is possible for the speaker to say one thing and mean… — John Searle Copy Share Image
Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
“To engage in dialogue is to serve others via whatever is real inside you; to engage in debate is to ultimately serve the illusions… — Oli Anderson Copy Share Image
What it comes down to for me is this: Will the technologies of communication in our culture, serve to enlighten us and help us… — Roger Waters Copy Share Image
In dialogue, there is opposition, yes, but no head-on collision. Smashing heads does not open minds. — Deborah Tannen Copy Share Image
A dialogue is very important. It is a form of communication in which question and answer continue till a question is left without an answer. Thus the question is suspended between the two persons involved in this answer and question. It is like a bud with untouched blossoms . . . If the question is left totally untouched by thought,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share
I get afraid of the dark if I'm in a great deal of dark, and I have to move around inside of that fear...… — Emil Ferris Copy Share Image
I've been in a serious conversation with one of my children, and a fan has come up. I've been in a public bathroom and… — Helen Reddy Copy Share Image
Life as we know it is fundamentally unsatisfying. I think most folks feel this to be true. They know that a life of aimless consumption isn't much of a life. And work offers us very little satisfaction. Plus our work and consumption is destroying the environment. And this is in the rich countries. Add starvation, etc. to the mix, and… — Michael Yates Copy Share