Speech Structure Quotes

I've been turning it over in after-dinner speeches, but it looks awkward-it's not what people are used to-it wants a good deal of Latin to make it go down.

No man not inspired can make a good speech without preparation.

When a man is asked to make a speech, the first thing he has to decide is what to say.

There are two kinds of speeches: the Mother Hubbard speech, which, like the garment, covers everything but touches nothing, and the French bathing suit speech, which covers only the essential points.

Neil Kinnock's speeches go on for so long because he has nothing to say and so he has no way of knowing when he's finished saying it.

The basic line in any good verse is cadenced... building it around the natural breath structures of speech.

In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech.

We need a new stump speech.

To make a politic speech is like being carried up a flight of steps by the pressure of a crowd.

The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible.

The best way to study about speech writing is to read great speeches.

Within speech, words are subject to a kind of relation that is independent of the first and based on their linkage: these are syntagmatic relations, of which I have spoken.

The State of the Union is less written than it is designed, structured and organized around applause prompts and camera cues.

Long speeches work if they’re filled with substance.

President Johnson wanted his speech writers to use words with fou r letters, sentences with four words, and paragraphs with four sentences