Making Speeches Quotes

#1. Since 1972, I've been going around making speeches on the Everglades.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas

#2. Democracy is not about making speeches. It is about making committees work.

Alan Bullock

#3. I travel all over the country making speeches for people I believe in.

Ann Richards

#4. Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.

Peter F. Drucker

#5. I thought making speeches for money was a much better thing than getting connected with any one group or company, as so many people who leave public life do.

Hillary Clinton

#6. I hate crowds and making speeches. I hate facing cameras and having to answer to a crossfire of questions. Why popular fancy should seize upon me, a scientist, dealing in abstract things and happy if left alone, is a manifestation of mass psychology that is beyond me.

Albert Einstein

#7. Love unspoken is the most tremendous force in the world. One is amazed at the way in which people waste their time making speeches, agitating, praying, even. They might save their breath. The great lovers of the world, in silence, rule the world.

Mary Webb

#8. Anybody who talks about the future is a bastard, it's the present that counts. Invoking posterity is like making speeches to worms.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#9. I shouldn't want you to be surprised, or to draw any particular inference from my making speeches, or not making speeches, out there. I don't recall any candidate for President that ever injured himself very much by not talking.

Calvin Coolidge

#10. I get terrified the first day I'm on a film set. I get nervous walking down a red carpet. I find making speeches the most terrifying thing in the world.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

#11. All the other candidates are making speeches about how much they have done for their country, which is ridiculous. I haven't done anything yet, and I think it's just common sense to send me to Washington and make me do my share.

Gracie Allen

#12. Practice love in your relationships. The key to this is avoiding expectation. It's expectation that makes most people miserable in love - the return on the investment.

Frederick Lenz

#13. The truth of God's Word cannot be subject to the puny light of man's self-centred reason

Graeme Goldsworthy

#14. Self-criticism, like self-administered brain surgery, is perhaps not a good idea. Can the 'self' see the 'self' with any objectivity?

Joyce Carol Oates

#15. But all the long speeches, all the interminable days and hours that people had spent talking about my soul, had left me with the impression of a colorless swirling river that was making me dizzy.

Albert Camus

#16. Her speeches were about the sanctity of the home, about how women should stay home. Serena Joy didn't do this herself, she made speeches instead, but she presented this failure of hers as a sacrifice she was making for the good of all.

Margaret Atwood

#17. Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other's speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.

H.L. Mencken

#18. I've found that festivals are a relatively painless way to meet people and make a few points that need making, without having to hit them over the head with too many speeches.

Pete Seeger

#19. It is easy to love one's enemy when one is making fine speeches; but so difficult to do so in the actual everyday work of life.

Anthony Trollope

#20. That's why he preferred young women. So much easier to impress. Although these days he often found them as rude and forthright as their older sisters. God were women worth it?

Gert Loveday

#21. The best feeling in the world is performing in front of a live audience who like what you're doing. I can understand why people become dictators just because of the thrill they get making the speeches.

Steve Coogan

#22. I think J.D. Salinger is correct in granting no interviews, and in making no speeches.

Patricia Highsmith

#23. I am notorious for making impassioned speeches about things nobody cares about.

Mindy Kaling

#24. Making clever speeches takes a lot of work and a lot of time.

Elaine Stritch

#25. The idealism and adorability of Rob Lowe and Bradley Whitford had made me long for a civic-minded beau who is constantly making long, important speeches and taking principled stands.

Mindy Kaling

#26. Humans have changed little over time. We think we've invented the modern world but they were making better speeches 2,000 years ago and grappling with issues of empire and terrorism.

Robert Harris

#27. Political leaders normally act by making convincing speeches.

Helmut Schmidt

#28. I'm a warrior when it comes to pursuing roles.

Daniel Day-Lewis