Oratory Speech Quotes

#1. The flakes are the size of tiny feathers, and that's the way snow is, it's not necessarily cold.

Peter Hoeg

#2. As a clinical psychologist, I am regularly confronted with the brutal truth that we are all lie.

Cortney S. Warren

#3. Speeches in our culture are the vacuum that fills a vacuum.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#4. Perching on a corner of the couch between the boxes, I tore out a small piece of my heart and buried it there between them to await its own restoration of all things, in the end of every good-bye ever spoken.

Preston Yancey

#5. A solitary eyebrow inched up Perry's forehead. "Your lust for meat never ceases to amaze me."
"Don't judge," Dita said around a mouthful of bacon.

Staci Hart

#6. The greatest words are written on hearts, not paper.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#7. Every public speaker likes his hearer to imagine his oratory as an unpremeditated gift of nature, and not the result of prolonged and patient study [Lionel Logue said]

Mark Logue

#8. As an investor with small capital, one should prefer businesses that have high returns on capital and that require little incremental investment to grow.

Warren Buffett

#9. ORATORY, n. A conspiracy between speech and action to cheat the understanding. A tyranny tempered by stenography.

Ambrose Bierce

#10. They'll float," it growled, "they float, Georgie, and when you're down here with me, you'll float, too-

Stephen King

#11. The greatest and truest models for all oratorsis Demosthenes. One who has not studied deeply and constantly all the great speeches of the great Athenian, is not prepared to speak in public. Only as the constant companion of Demosthenes, Burke, Fox, Canning and Webster, can we hope to become orators.

Woodrow Wilson

#12. DELPHI/HERMIONE: What have you done? SCORPIUS/HARRY: I, uh, I opened a book. Something which has - in all my years on this planet - never been a particularly dangerous activity. The

J.K. Rowling

#13. Heal her," Broc said, his voice low and menacing. "You cannot allow Anice to die when you have the magic to help her." "She's beyond my magic. She's gone." Broc hugged Anice to him. "You failed her, Sonya!

Donna Grant

#14. There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus and upset the convictions and debauch the emotions of an audience not practiced in the tricks and delusions of oratory.

Mark Twain

#15. The English Language is my bitch. Or I don't speak it very well. Whatever.

Joss Whedon

#16. You can bring your children under age 18 into the voting booth with you. Many families do so as a way to teach civic responsibility.

Christine Pelosi

#17. "But I have never before watched soldiers entice children like mice into a trap and murder them for sport." - Chris Hedges

Susan Abulhawa

#18. Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.

Edward Gibbon

#19. The audiences certainly have [declined]. If I go to the theatre now I find people come there to eat and smoke and talk to one another. And look like scarecrows.

Evelyn Waugh

#20. A speech should not just be a sharing of information, but a sharing of yourself.

Ralph Archbold

#21. We must stop seeing our churches as a centre for instant solutions and micro-wave results.

Sunday Adelaja

#22. Truth is his inspirer, and earnestness the polisher of his sentences. He could afford to lose his Sharp's rifles, while he retained his faculty of speech,
a Sharp's rifle of infinitely surer and longer range.

Henry David Thoreau