Elocution Competition Quotes

#1. The very persons who have taken away my time and space are those who have given me something to say.

Katherine Paterson

#2. We ought to step out of our old, hard casing. We think that we are one kind of people, when in fact we are always creating ourselves. We are not fixed. We are constantly becoming, constantly coming into being.

Ben Okri

#3. Of all the named structures within the abdomen and the chest, those associated with reproduction retained the mysteries of their willful behavior long after others had been solved to the satisfaction of physicians and philosophers.

Sherwin B. Nuland

#4. Of all writings I love only that which is written with blood. Write with blood: and you will discover that blood is spirit.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#5. That takes a lot of confidence to let your actors come up with something that could be theoretically funnier than what you had envisioned originally.

Jackie Schaffer

#6. I look for interesting titles that are curious and make people think. A lot of people are always so caught up in their lives. But if I make them smile through my titles or provoke them a little bit then maybe they will think about things and read the book and take something away from it.

Robin Sharma

#7. It doesn't matter what anybody thinks of what I do. The clock doesn't lie.

Bonnie Blair