Phillips Brooks Quotes

There are various ways of delivering some kind of truth, so I try to find the style or the way that I find more effective.

They see us interacting with people, they see us doing serious interviews, they see us having fun, and when you're conversing with someone, you get a much clearer impression of who that person is than if they are just reading into a news piece.

Words should be employed as the means, not the end; language is the instrument, conviction is the work.

In all sincere speech there is power, not necessarily great power, but as much as the speaker is capable of.

I don't want to be a big star. I just want to get my message across.

How I say it has as much of an impact on what people think of me as what I say.

It's never what you say, but how you make it sound sincere.

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

Whenever you try to say something in a sincere way, it gets communicated no matter what the genre.

When truth cannot make itself known in words, it will make itself known in deeds.

Style is the gossamer on which the seeds of truth float through the world.

I believe verbal felicity is the fruit of ardor, of diligence, and of refusing to be false.

Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words.

When you sing, always tell the truth.

the mode of delivering a truth makes, for the most part, as much impression on the mind of the listener as the truth itself.

That which we do not believe, we cannot adequately say; even though we may repeat the words ever so often.

Now everyone has a license to speak, it’s a question of who gets heard.

When a man talks with absolute sincerity and freedom he goes on a voyage of discovery. The whole company has shares in the enterprise.

So sure, start with a slogan. But don't bother wasting any time on it if you're merely going for catchy. Aim for true instead.

As you talk, so is your heart.

You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music. The thing about music is that nobody listens to it unless it's real. I don't think that you can fool anybody for too long in music. And you certainly can't fool everybody.

The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression.

I have always had such sincere love for truth, that I have often begun by telling stories for the purpose of getting truth to enter the heads of those who could not appreciate its charms.

Which, then, brings us closer to what we want to communicate: saying what we intend, or trying to say the opposite?

If you dont [sic] say what you want, what's the sense of writing?