Addresses Quote by Neil Postman

It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of…

— Ernest Hemingway

it wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short.

— Ernest Hemingway

“Radio and television speech becomes standardized, perhaps better English than we have ever used. Just as our bread, mixed and baked, packaged and sold…

— John Steinbeck

“Lincoln's Gettysburg Address was 272 words and he delivered it under three minutes. He labored on it for days. The "featured speaker," Edward Everett,…

— David Herbert Donald

The Gettysburg speech is at once the shortest and the most famous oration in American history. Put beside it, all the whoopings of the…

— Henry Lewis Mencken

There was not a lot of dialogue. The titles were just to keep you up. It's the visual stimulation that hits the audience. That's…

— Robert Altman

Words, isolated in the velvet of radio, took on a jeweled particularity. Television has quite the opposite effect: words are drowned in the visual…

— Frederic Raphael

If there is a tendency in modern television I hate, it is the unstoppable march of the dramatic reconstruction to tell the stories of…

— Kevin Macdonald

“Communications must destroy localness, by a slow, inevitable process [...] Radio and television speech becomes standardized, perhaps better English than we have ever used.…

— John Steinbeck

For my generation of actors, it was about the theatre. Television didn't exist. Coaxial cable didn't exist.

— Martin Landau

I always prided myself on at least trying to be literate and use the right words, and if the audience didn't get it, then…

— Tom Lehrer

One unexpectedly striking moment, when Tom Amandes as Lincoln, recites the Gettysburg Address, not in booming, this-is-a-great-speech style, but casually, as if chatting over…

— Neil Genzlinger