Declaimer Quotes

#1. Never write down your speeches beforehand; if you do, you may perhaps be a good declaimer, but will never be a debater.

Lord Chesterfield

#2. Nothing is more detestable than a professed declaimer who retails his discourses as a quack does his medicines.

Jean Baptiste Massillon

#3. Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely that they might earn their wages. But many are no more worthily employed now.

Henry David Thoreau

#4. I am deeply impressed with the gravity and wisdom with which most federal judges approach the responsibility of sentencing. It is a difficult, soul-searching task at best.

Robert Kennedy

#5. I guess professionally I've left my gender open to artistic interpretation.

Andrej Pejic

#6. Recognizing that God is the only deity that exists is the first step toward obeying him. He is absolute; there is no one who can offer an alternative truth nor assign humankind different instructions.

James Mikolajczyk

#7. Rocco drove up the West Side until they reached the Port Authority Bus Terminal.

Richard Price

#8. I think that by ignoring the show you're ignoring the audience who put you there.

Simon Cowell

#9. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired. Only after death, only in solitude, does a man's true nature emerge. In death, as on the chimney sweep's Saturday night, the soot gets washed from his body.

Franz Kafka

#10. Money is like manure. If you spread it around, it does a lot of good, but if you pile it up in one place, it stinks like hell.

Clint Murchison Jr.

#11. But Christianity is not just for the strong; it's for everyone, especially for people who admit that, where it really counts, they're weak.

Timothy J. Keller

#12. Anyone who waits for someone else to make a change automatically becomes the follower.

Peyton Manning

#13. But oh my dear, I am tired of being Alice in Wonderland. Does it sound ungrateful? It is. Only I do get tired.

Melanie Benjamin