Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary.

It was my ambition all of my life to be master of the spoken word.

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

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

Talking, being a better talker, wouldn't have been that hard. It was just, I was just naturally gifted at other things.

For some reason, talking is easy for me. Practice does make perfect; I've been doing it for a while. Being out there in a high-pressure situation with a live audience and a live TV camera on you, it brings something out. It's very organic.

The laurels of an orator who is not a master of literary art wither quickly.

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.

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

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

Accustomed as I am to public speaking, I know the futility of it.

Modern political speechwriting is certainly a skill, and one that requires experience and practice to master.

There are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds more than they think of without that warmth.

I'm not great on television. That's one reason I don't do it very often.

I had no fear of speaking to large audiences.

Ultimately, the best speakers are the ones who have put 10,000 hours into listening.

As I've been acting since I was young it's taught me to give a good speech, and, though I say so myself, I did it pretty well.

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

I think that no one, or very few, are born as good presenters. It's a skill that you learn.

I enjoy my public speaking. That's what I love doing. It's what I'm good at.

It is much better when a member resumes his seat after he has made a speech for the House to have the feeling that they wish he had gone on longer instead of wondering why he did not stop sooner.

Kennedy had a much better speech writer than I do.

Unlike his father, Churchill was not a natural speaker.