Speakers Quotes

The audience likes a speaker with the same weakness and the same virtues that they themselves have.

it makes a great difference to a speaker whether he has something to say, or has to say something.

It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

I have speakers all over my house because music is such a huge, huge part of who I am.

Speech is an essential mechanism of democracy, for it is the means to hold officials accountable to the people. [...] The right of citizens to inquire, to hear, to speak, and to use information to reach consensus is a precondition to enlightened self-government and a necessary means to protect it. [...] By taking the right to speak from some and giving it to others, the Government deprives the disadvantaged person or class of the right to use speech to strive to establish worth, standing, and respect for the speaker’s voice. The Government may not by these means deprive the public of the right and privilege to determine for itself what speech and speakers are worthy of consideration. The First Amendment protects speech and speaker, and the ideas that flow from each.

Who does not delight in oratory? How we gather to hear even an ordinary speaker! How often is a jury swayed and controlled by the appeals of counsel!

I love good, loud speakers.

Order and disorder', said the speaker, 'they each have their beauty.

There are only two types of speakers in the world. 1. The nervous and 2. Liars.

I love tearing people's speakers up.

Be ever on your guard what you say of anybody and to whom.

I don't know whether I see it as slipping inside the villains, but part of what makes Ralph Nader and Michael Moore such effective speakers and communicators is that they know how corporate culture works, how our lawmaking bodies really work, and where the bones are buried.

There happened in my time one noble speaker [Sir Francis Bacon] who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language (where he could spare or pass by a jest) was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. His hearers could not cough, or look aside from him, without loss. The fear of every man that heard him was, lest he should make an end.

Yes, Vajpayee and Advani are very clever speakers, but that does not mean everything they say is true.

I used to go to all the environmental conferences when I wasn't an invited speaker. I was just somebody in the back taking a lot of notes. It was when I was least visible that I came up with the most cool stuff. Now, because I don't get to be Clark Kent, I feel like my learning curve is slowing way down. I'm always afraid the conversation will move on and I'll be up at the front of the room saying last year's speech.

Anytime students shout down a speaker who says something different, this is not good.

I remember famous people coming in to speak to me when I was in school and being inspired by them.

I really like the Budda head with a big Orange cabinet with Celestion 30 speakers and my '63 Fender Telecaster.

He was the keynote speaker for our better angels.

I have a whole room fully dedicated to playing games. Special chair on the ground with the speakers in it. The whole thing.

Our public men are speaking every day on something, but they ain't saying anything.

we have not been impressed with any attribute of the Senate other than its appearance and manners. We have heard the best speakers: they all fire off speeches which deal with the entire subject in general terms and which do not attempt to debate, to answer opponents' arguments or offer new points for discussion. And the speeches are constantly degenerating into empty rhetoric; they abound in quotations from well-known authors or from their own former speeches.

I went to junkyards, abandoned car lots. I asked supermarkets for the big jugs they put pig guts in, to make cabinets for my bass speakers.