Tucker Carlson Quotes

The ability to speak well is the shortcut to distinction.

A scientist sounds like a scientist because the things that come out of their mouth don't stumble, that's all. If they [said], "And the, um, a microwave, uh," you know, then you don't sound right, but if you can just get it out without stumbling then you're going to sound fine.

Depend upon it, sir, it is when you come close to a man in conservation that you discover what his real abilities are; to make a speech in a public assembly is a knack.

Speech is my hammer bang the world into shape now let it fall - HUNGH

When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, 'Action, Action, Action.'

English is the perfect language for preachers because it allows you to talk until you think of what to say.

Of all the talents bestowed upon men, none is so precious as the gift of oratory !!

[On George H.W. Bush:] A man who wishes to lead the Western world should be able to find the right words, string them together in coherent sentences, and steer them to an intelligible conclusion. His sentences have the stuttering start of an old car on a cold morning. They never run smoothly. The only speech part that he has mastered completely is the non sequitur.

To talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but that an equally great one is to know the right moment to stop.

William Jennings Bryan is a much better orator than I am. I have to think.

He (Don Drysdale) talks very well for a guy who's had two fingers in his mouth all his life.

They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper.

Oratory, like the drama, abhors lengthiness; like the drama, it must keep doing. It avoids, as frigid, prolonged metaphysical soliloquy. Beauties themselves, if they delay or distract the effect which should be produced on the audience, become blemishes.

Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounc'd it to you, trippingly on the tongue.

I like that kind of stuff. I like doing speeches. I've been lucky because I've had a lot of characters, over the years, who will have three or four page speeches.

The vulgar look upon a man, who is reckoned a fine speaker, as a phenomenon, a supernatural being, and endowed with some peculiargift of Heaven; they stare at him, if he walks in the park, and cry, that is he. You will, I am sure, view him in a juster light, and nulla formidine. You will consider him only as a man of good sense, who adorns common thoughts with the graces of elocution, and the elegancy of style. The miracle will then cease.

Chauncy Burr ... talks well, possibly better than he thinks. But this is a common failing.

What passes out of one's mouth passes into a hundred ears. It is a great misfortune not to have sense enough to speak well.

The longer I live, the more I have come to value the gift of eloquence. Every American youth, if he desires for any purpose to get influence over his countrymen in an honorable way, will seek to become a good public speaker.

There's zero correlation between being the best talker and having the best ideas.

You have no right to go before a public without an adequate technique, just because you feel. Anything feels - a leaf feels, a storm feels - what right have you to do that? You have to have speech, and it's a cultivated speech.

The legal profession, politics and acting are very closely tied: the whole point is to have an idea and get it across to a listener, whether it is one person or five thousand in a hall.

ORATORY, n. A conspiracy between speech and action to cheat the understanding. A tyranny tempered by stenography.

Some of the greatest and most lasting effects of genuine oratory have gone forth from secluded lecture desks into the hearts of quiet groups of students.