Moses Quotes

I am not the most eloquent guy in the world.

I [Moses] am not a man of words.

Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary.

I'm not very articulate. I don't have that skill.

I'm not very good with words, weirdly.

Common fluency of speech in many men and most women is owing to a scarcity of matter.

Speech is the best show a man puts on.

The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use.

Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things.

In an easy matter. Anybody can be eloquent.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

If you're a preacher, you talk for a living, so even if you don't make sense, you learn to make nonsense eloquently.

Talking and eloquence are not the same.

I often begin a thought with spirit and finish it with nonsense. The chain of my argument often escapes me, and when lost can seldom be retrieved. These faults are so overpowering that I should sink into perpetual silence were it not that sometimes in ardor of debate, when my feelings are wound up to a high tone, elocution pours itself along with unusual rapidity, and I have passages which would not shame a good speaker; this is the only thing that makes me tolerable to others or to myself.

It lies deep in our habits, confirmed by all manner of educational and other arrangements for several centuries back, to consider human talent as best of all evincing itself by the faculty of eloquent speech.

Eloquence is the essential thing in a speech, not information.

I'm a talker.

I don't have any oratory skills. But I would not use them if I had.

I'm not good at throwing around rhetoric.

I guess my diction just isn't very good.

Suddenly, I don't know what to say. It happens often to me. I know what I want to say, I think about whether it is what I mean, but when the moment comes to speak, I can't say it. - Nana Kleinfrankenheim, Vivre Sa Vie.

As usual, it occurred to me that words were the only thing that could possibly save me from this situation. This was a characteristic misunderstanding on my part. When action was needed, I was absorbed in words; for words proceeded with such difficulty from my mouth that I was intent on them and forgot all about action. It seemed to me that actions, which are dazzling, varied things, must always be accompanied by equally dazzling and equally varied words.

I like to talk. Talking is kind of my thing. If talking had been a sport option at Wexford, I would have been captain. But sports always have to involve running, jumping, or swinging your arms around. You don’t get PE points for the smooth and rapid movement of the jaw.

It is not sufficient to know what one ought to say, but one must also know how to say it.