Quotes about speakers and speaking

"A speech should not just be a sharing of information, but a sharing of yourself."

Archbold, Ralph on speakers and speaking   

"What we say is important... for in most cases the mouth speaks what the heart is full of."

Beggs, Jim on speakers and speaking   

"It's not so much knowing when to speak, when to pause."

Benny, Jack on speakers and speaking   

"I didn't say the things I said."

Berra, Yogi on speakers and speaking   

"Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks."

Bible on speakers and speaking   

"We speak that what we know and testify to that which we have seen."

Bible on speakers and speaking   

"I don't care how much a person talks, if they only say it in a few words."

Billings, Josh on speakers and speaking   

"If you can't write your message in a sentence, you can't say it in an hour."

Booher, Dianna on speakers and speaking   

"A man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man. The instructed man is ashamed to pronounce in an orphic manner what everybody knows, and because he is silent people think he is making fun of them. They like a man who expresses their own superficial thoughts in a manner that appears to be profound. This enables them to feel that they are themselves profound."

Brooks, Van Wyck on speakers and speaking   

"If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?"

Carlyle, Thomas on speakers and speaking   

"Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident."

Carnegie, Dale on speakers and speaking   

"Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners."

Carnegie, Dale on speakers and speaking   

"Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said."

Carnegie, Dale on speakers and speaking
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"Grasp the subject, the words will follow."

Cato The Elder on speakers and speaking   

"One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography."

Channing, William Ellery on speakers and speaking   

"Most people have ears, but few have judgment; tickle those ears, and depend upon it, you will catch those judgments, such as they are."

Chesterfield, Lord on speakers and speaking   

"Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on speakers and speaking   

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"A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on speakers and speaking   

"He mouths a sentence as curs mouth a bone."

Churchill, Charles on speakers and speaking   

"Say what you have to say and first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending; sit down."

Churchill, Winston on speakers and speaking   

"Opening amenities are often opening inanities."

Churchill, Winston on speakers and speaking   

"If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use the pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time; a tremendous whack."

Churchill, Winston on speakers and speaking
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"Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak."

Cicero, Marcus T. on speakers and speaking
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"Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion."

Cicero, Marcus T. on speakers and speaking   

"A good orator is pointed and impassioned."

Cicero, Marcus T. on speakers and speaking   

"Say not always what you know, but always know what you say."

Claudius on speakers and speaking
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"We should speak as the populace but think as the learned."

Coke, Sir Edward on speakers and speaking   

"The more you are talked about the less powerful you are."

Disraeli, Benjamin on speakers and speaking   

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"All the great speakers were bad speakers at first."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on speakers and speaking   

"Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol and an audience is electrified."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on speakers and speaking   

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"First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak."

Epictetus on speakers and speaking
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"You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart."

Ford, John on speakers and speaking   

"Half wits talk much, but say little."

Franklin, Benjamin on speakers and speaking
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"He that speaks much, is much mistaken."

Franklin, Benjamin on speakers and speaking
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"Once you get people laughing, they're listening and you can tell them almost anything."

Gardner, Herbert on speakers and speaking   

"It is delivery that makes the orators success."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on speakers and speaking
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"I do not speak of what I cannot praise."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on speakers and speaking
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"Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one."

Gracian, Baltasar on speakers and speaking   

"He rose without a friend and sat down without an enemy."

Gratton, Henry on speakers and speaking   

"There are three things to aim at in public speaking: First to get into your subject, then to get your subject into yourself, and lastly, to get your subject into your hearers."

Gregg on speakers and speaking