Quotes About Speaking

I made a 1,600 minus 800 minus 200 on the SAT, so I'm very intelligent when I speak.

I was born to speak. I got in trouble as a kid for talking. I already knew it was a strength.

The mind is a wonderful thing. It starts working the minute you're born, and doesn't stop until you get up to speak in public.

If we don't bear witness as citizens, as people, as individuals, the right that we have had to life is sacrificed. There is a silence, instead of a speaking presence.

This is your captain speaking. Welcome aboard flight...one, from...here to there. We'll be cruising at a height of ten feet, going up to twelve and a half feet if we see anything big. And our copilot today is a flask of coffee.

I would indeed that love were longer-lived, And oaths were not so brittle as they are, But so it is, and nature has contrived To struggle on without a break thus far,— Whether or not we find what we are seeking Is idle, biologically speaking.

I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.

Public speaking is the number-one fear... even over death!

I was working for the CIA and prohibited from speaking publicly.

I say 'as it were' or 'so to speak' too often because puns and double entendres keep insinuating themselves into my consciousness as I'm talking.

I see magic in conversation and words, and music is purely speaking to others, isn't it?

I've always loved public speaking, and that's something I definitely will pursue after the Olympics.

When I travel throughout the district speaking with families and educators, I frequently hear of concerns with our K-12 education system.

Ich schreibe anders als ich rede, ich rede anders als ich denke, ich denke anders als ich denken soll und so geht es weiter bis ins tiefste Dunkel.

Ich schreibe anders als ich rede, ich rede anders als ich denke, ich denke anders als ich denken soll und so geht es weiter bis ins tiefste Dunkel. (10. Juli 1914)

The #metoo campaign opened a particular window into the gender dynamics in technology, with many prominent women speaking out.

The risks of speaking extemporaneously are apparent the first time you wing it and promptly put your foot in your mouth.

My speaking style was criticised by no less an authority than Arnold Schwarzenegger. It was a low moment, my friends, to have my rhetorical skills denounced by a monosyllabic Austrian cyborg.

Some years ago, I was invited to speak in Houston, Texas. They said I was a founder of 'postmodern theatre'. So I said to my office, 'This is ridiculous for me to go and speak about postmodern theatre when I don't know what it means, but... they're paying me a lot of money, so I'll go.'

Aryan' and 'Dravidian' used as terms for peoples confuses language and race since these are language labels, and should correctly be used as, 'Aryan-speaking people' and 'Dravidian-speaking people'.

Nuestras vidas empiezan a acabarse el día en que guardamos silencio sobre las cosas importantes MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR

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And once the others started shouting too, she stopped speaking and just watched. Pleased, as if it was what she had wanted all the time. That hate spreading like a wild fire on the hill.' A pause. 'It was as if she was drunk on the power.