After Dinner Speaker Quotes

#1. Well with me now is Geoffrey Robinson. He was once voted 'After-dinner Speaker of the Year', so if you've had your tea, you're in for a treat

Eddie Mair

#2. In Hollywood, as I've often said, if you don't sing or dance, you end up as an after-dinner speaker.

Ronald Reagan

#3. I'm the world's worst after-dinner speaker. I need pictures to respond to. I was the voice of the lottery balls once and got the sack.

Sid Waddell

#4. In the end we won't be judged as a society solely by our growth statistics or economic activity graphs. We will be judged by the quality of the life that we foster for all members of the community and the compassion we show for the disadvantaged.

Carmen Lawrence

#5. I'm as patient a father as I am on the tennis court. It takes a lot for me to get really upset, but sometimes kids can get you really cross if they really keep bugging you.

Roger Federer

#6. I remember my sense of shock some half-dozen years ago when I read a recommendation to sell shares of a company ... The recommendation was not based on any long-term fundamentals. Rather, it was that over the next six months the funds could be employed more profitably elsewhere.

Philip Arthur Fisher

#7. It's bad enough for me to make choices that hurt my own relationship with God. How much more serious is it to be the cause of someone else deciding to sin? Not only must I choose the pathway of holiness for God's sake and for my own sake; I must also do it for the sake of others.

Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#8. I chose to devote the lion's share of my time to my personal growth and to my family. I reconnected with the part of me that I had left behind.

RuPaul

#9. Occasionally, you feel like the only person able to win the match. So you take all the responsibility, you do too much, and you do something bad.

Mario Balotelli

#10. I want to look at this character from all points of view. I know I don't want to make them all good or all bad or all anything ... the story itself often helps create the character.

Chris Crutcher