Tina Brown Quotes

... the gustiest and gloriest, loudest and lustiest, the deadliest and damndest orator ever heard on this or any other earth ..., the champion boob-bumper of all epoches.

Unlike his father, Churchill was not a natural speaker.

Great eloquence we cannot get, except from human genius.

Mr. Lincoln is one of Nature’s orators, using his rare powers solely and effectively to elucidate and to convince, though their inevitable effect is to delight and electrify as well.

The gifts of nature are necessary; but they are not sufficient to make a complete orator without art and study.

Don't talk to me of your Archimedes' lever. He was an absentminded person with a mathematical imagination. Mathematics commands all my respect, but I have no use for engines. Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.

He is the most brilliant speaker of the English tongue of all men on this globe

It is said that Obama speaks 'professorially,' a fact that understates the quickness and agility of his mind.

Obama spoke so slowly because he, a clever and cultured man, had constantly to be on his guard against sounding it.

Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.

It really is true that an orator is simply a good man who speaks well.

It was an argument of rare power and eloquence.

There was nothing in all Douglas's powerful effort that appealed to the higher instincts of human nature, while Lincoln always touched sympathetic cords. Lincoln's speech excited and sustained the enthusiasm of his audience to the end.

I never thought I'd say this: what Obama needs in his personality is a little George Bush.

Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.

Obama has figured out the best method to prepare the way for his verbal Houdini acts: Use political noise as the tune-up din before the aria. Perhaps his body temperature is so low, it sometimes takes him too long to break out the song.

Talking and eloquence are not the same.

Some eloquence is like a magic.

… a style of oratory that I never heard equaled in this or any other country

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

A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker.

... They depended far more on their physical power of oratory than upon any semblance of argument ... with small regard for modesty, truth or time.

I [Moses] am not a man of words.

This trial has developed in the most remarkable manner, the insane love of speaking among public men. We are wading knee deep in words, words, words ….

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