George Carlin Quotes

I think I'm realizing I've always been able to move people, just getting people to talk.

The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them.

I like any reaction I can get with my music. Just anything to get people to think. I mean if you can get a whole room full of drunk, stoned people to actually wake up and think, you're doing something.

If people don't want to listen to you, what makes you think they want to hear from your sweater?

Tap into people's emotions. We've all been put to sleep by a speaker who just gives the facts. You must tap into people's feelings.

I think statistics go in one ear and out the other. All of us respond to stories more than numbers.

I want to put concepts in front of people that make them laugh or smile or even hate what I do. I'm not interested in just putting clothes in stores.

The practice of public speaking flourishes in every peaceful and free state.

An orator is a man who says what he thinks and feels what he says.

Showing 'Get Out' to a room full of strangers and having them react lets them be introspective and see the way certain images affect other people.

The skill set of pastor and comedian are incredibly similar. You want to affect people. You're good at reading rooms. You're persuasive, and you're likable.

Eloquence dwells quite as much in the hearts of the hearers as on the lips of the orator.

You can say anything if enough people will listen.

It's quite easy to make a load of people laugh, it's often a reflex action, but I think to make them cry is harder without manipulating them.

Most people are not prepared to have their minds changed, and I think they know in their hearts that other people are just the same, and one of the reasons people become angry when they argue is that they realize just that, as they trot out their excuses.

All I've ever wanted to do is entertain people - make them laugh, think, smile, feel creeped out or scared; whatever it is. I'm getting the opportunity to do that in various roles.

Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair; they can transfer knowledge from teacher to student; words enable the orator to sway his audience and dictate its decisions. Words are capable of arousing the strongest emotions and prompting all men's actions.

In Europe, even more so than in national politics, we have to follow the principle laid down by Martin Luther: Use language that the people will understand, but don't just tell them what they want to hear.

You have to hold your audience in writing to the very end-much more than in talking, when people have to be polite and listen to you.

I think a lot of people get into stand-up to be the center of attention, which is perfectly legitimate. But I think I got in there to be heard.

I'm the crazy one who thinks that words reach people.

Whenever people have trouble public speaking, it's because they are just thinking about themselves.

My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, before all, to make you see.

It is always much easier, I have discovered, to make people cry or gasp than to make them think.

I think history has shown that the worst way to [try to] bring people over and actually change public opinion is by insult and applied degradation of them.