After Dinner Speeches Quotes

#1. 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.

George Eliot

#2. What sense did the world make? Where was God, the Bloody Fool? Did He have no notion of fair and unfair? Couldn't He read a simple balance sheet? He would have been sacked long ago if He were managing a corporation, the things he allowed to happen ...

Rohinton Mistry

#3. Death never pierces the heart so much as when it takes someone we love; cleaving the heart they held with their passing.

Brandon M. Herbert

#4. The devil will tell you nine truths, so that you'll believe one lie.

Shannon Mayer

#5. Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.

Christopher Paolini

#6. The things that keep me awake at night are things like textures and instrumentation and plotting out what things are going to do and what the sounds are that I'm trying to capture.

Ariel Pink

#7. A job is death without dignity.

Frank McCourt

#8. More than Torture.
Tilburg.

Petra Hermans

#9. What is it that turns people into artists? It often comes from some kind of pain or angst, a need to understand or express something. It very rarely comes from confidence, being raised by parents who want to hear what you have to say and wants to encourage you.

Angelina Jolie

#10. What do we expect the climate to do? How will it affect people? And how can we protect people from hardship? We should be willing to face the facts that things may not go very well.

Walter Munk

#11. Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.

Benjamin Cardozo

#12. Sure enough, they were both sitting in the floor, each with bed-head looking a little dazed.

Quinn Loftis

#13. One way to boost our will power and focus is to manage our distractions instead of letting them manage us.

Daniel Goleman

#14. at that moment, old Joe Vigil was the only coach in America shivering in a freezing forest at four in the morning, waiting for a glimpse of a community-college science teacher and seven men in dresses.

Christopher McDougall