Quotes About Speeches

I touch your absence here Remembering the speeches of your hair.

Unlike in 1981, when Reagan had indicated that treatment for addicts was the route he would take, his speeches and policies now became focused on enforcement, criminals, and harsh, no-mercy punishment.

Speeches are like steer horns - a point here, a point there, and a lot of bull in between.

A toastmaster is a man who eats a meal he doesn't want so he can get up and tell a lot of stories he doesn't remember to people who've already heard them.

The best impromptu speeches are the ones written well in advance.

What the orators want in depth, they give you in length.

Winston [Churchill] has devoted the best years of his life to preparing his impromptu speeches.

ROSTRUM, n. In Latin, the beak of a bird or the prow of a ship. In America, a place from which a candidate for office energetically expounds the wisdom, virtue and power of the rabble.

I knew a time when Europe feasted well: bodies were munched in thousands, vintage blood so blithely flowed that even the dull mud grew greedy, and ate men; ... Long revel, but at last to loathing turned, and through after-dinner speeches yawned those who still waked to hear them. No one claps. Come, Time, 'tis time to bear away the scraps! - Opus 7

In our generation, the role models were Gandhi and Nehru. We revered them. They were venerated personalities. I read almost every speech of Nehru.

I think almost every political leader is always told that the next speech they make is the most crucial one.

Every couple of seconds out here they're honoring somebody. You've got to get dressed, go in and sit down. Invariably somebody makes a speech.

Krispy Kreme claims the 'batter is the best part.' Same with an Obama speech. It's all about what's on the outside, not what's inside.

People get up and say, 'I didn't prepare a speech because I didn't think I would win.' Well, that's dumb.

Speeches? I don't ever feel like I'm giving a speech. I don't look at myself as a motivational speaker.

Biden's first failed run for the presidency was ended by his dishonesty over his academic record and his plagiarism, including the biography and speeches of British Labor politician Neil Kinnock.

When I am working out, I listen to inspirational speeches.

If all our agents would abridge their speeches one half, I am satisfied the effect produced would be much greater. The 'art of leaving off' at the right time, and in the right place, is one of the most difficult things to learn.

I find doing speeches nerve wrecking.

I was very nervous about giving speeches for a long time.

I don't want to spend my last few whatever it is, months or years on this earth, giving speeches.

In talking to you I feel very much more at ease than my colleagues who gave the speeches during the banquet.

People always need to hear good motivational speeches.

Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.