Phoebe Waller-Bridge Quotes

You may use different sorts of sentences and illustrations before different sorts of audiences, but you don't -- if you are wise -- talk down to any audience.

There's plenty of ways you can go and encourage people. And you should do that. But don't demonize what you do, I do, what other comics are doing, when you see people showing up and listening and responding because they've heard the messaging in the new kind of way.

I made a deliberate choice to write something people would enjoy, not knock people out with 'Boy, he can really put a clause together!'

Audiences of critical thinkers are my favorite kinds of audiences. There are jokes I tell in the show that don't get laughs unless I am in front of an audience of critical thinkers. Put me in front of a crowd of science teachers or astronauts! The guileless aren't our audience - it's the critical thinkers we love.

When I teach writing, I always tell my students you should assume that the audience you're writing for is smarter than you. You can't write if you don't think they're on your side, because then you start to yell at them or preach down to them.

Be slow to speak, and only after having first listened quietly, so that you may understand the meaning, leanings, and wishes of those who do speak. Thus you will better know when to speak and when to be silent.

It's not my responsibility to make everything I say idiot-proof.

Making noise is easy; making stuff people understand is an easy thing to do.

One thing that makes me very happy is to have a complicated idea and to feel that I've expressed myself clearly. I remember writing the ending to 'Happier at Home.' I wrote the entire book to build to that ending 'now is now,' and what I had to say was very abstract, and yet I felt satisfied that I managed to say what I wanted to say.

One thing I've learned to appreciate as I've gotten a little older is direct forms of communication.

Speak up. You have to project! If people can't hear you, it doesn't matter what you say.

I take pride in having something to say, which people actually want to hear.

I've always been very aware of what I'm saying, but I'm also aware of what you're saying. I always want to make sure that my point is clear.

My purpose in public address and in speech is really encapsulated in three C's: clear, concise, correct. No overblowing rhetoric or anything like that. As simple as possible: clear, concise, correct.

A workshop is a way of renting an audience, and making sure you're communicating what you think you're communicating. It's so easy as a young writer to think you're been very clear when in fact you haven't.

Speak slowly, Michael. He is an honourable man.

My basic rule is to speak slowly and simply so that my audience has an opportunity to follow and think about what I am saying.

There's a certain time that when somebody asks you a question, you answer them. I don't think I said anything with venom. If you can express yourself without anger and make it as palatable as you can, that's what you do.

Honest communication is a rare thing.

I have not wanted syllables where actions have spoken so plainly.

Every man should study conciseness in speaking; it is a sign of ignorance not to know that long speeches, though they may please the speaker, are the torture of the hearer.

The only way to speak the truth is to speak lovingly.

We can speak very much to the purpose and yet in such a way that the whole world cries out in contradiction: namely, when we are not speaking to the whole world.

It's more and more difficult to get through to your audience with all of the clutter. This is a great way for Ace to get [its] message out.

The reason to stand up for punctuation is that without it there is no reliable way of communicating meaning.