Public Speaker Quotes

#1. I'm one hell of a public speaker, baby. I'm going to let them see the pain, but if you turn around and start treating me like some damaged little victim, I will murder you. In your sleep.

Moira Rogers

#2. I expect if you're a professional public speaker, you probably wouldn't want to go onstage and sing and play drums.

Neil Peart

#3. Every minister, lecturer and public speaker know the discouragement of pouring himself of herself out to an audience and not receiving a single ripple of appreciative comment.

Dale Carnegie

#4. Babson became a sought-after public speaker, and the newspapers reported his predictions as newsworthy events.

Walter Friedman

#5. The longer I live, the more I have come to value the gift of eloquence. Every American youth, if he desires for any purpose to get influence over his countrymen in an honorable way, will seek to become a good public speaker.

George Frisbie Hoar

#6. You're not going to become a great manager overnight. You're not going to become a great public speaker or figure out how to raise money. These are the things you want to start the clock on as early as possible.

Drew Houston

#7. The writer is editor, marketer, blogger, reader, thinker, designer, publisher, public speaker, budget-maker, contract reader, trouble-shooter, coffee-hound, liver-pickler, shame-farmer, god, devil, gibbering protozoa.

Chuck Wendig

#8. 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

#9. I'm a horrible public speaker.

Bill Condon

#10. A career public speaker is not what I'm called to be. I'm called to be a critic.

Tony Campolo

#11. Being a comfortable public speaker, which involves easily being able to go off-script, strongly signals competence.

Amy Cuddy

#12. I am not a public speaker and never will be.

Heath Ledger

#13. Fill your mouth with marbles and make a speech. Every day reduce the number of marbles in your mouth and make a speech. You will soon become an accredited public speaker
as soon as you have lost all your marbles.

Brooks Hays

#14. After President Mutharika was declared a winner, there was life after State House. For those Malawians that know me, I am an international public speaker. So I went back to my speaking engagements.

Joyce Banda

#15. I admired Hitler, for instance, because he came from being a little man with almost no formal education, up to power. I admire him for being such a good public speaker and for what he did with it.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#16. I'd make a better U.S. president than George W. Bush. Bush is an idiot. I'm a better public speaker than him. It makes you wonder about the voters.

Robbie Williams

#17. Just recognize that you are not going to become a comfortable public speaker overnight. It can take a long time.

Dana Perino

#18. There is only one excuse for a speaker's asking the attention of his audience: he must have either truth or entertainment for them.

Dale Carnegie

#19. Be ready for huge failures to achieve huge success,
Be receptive for criticism. It can be constructive too.!

Harsh Malik

#20. Blessed are the joymakers.

Nathaniel Parker Willis

#21. Was I ever alive, or did I die long ago, in a room so cramped that there was never any space for love?

Mons Kallentoft

#22. My dad studied at the American Conservatory in Chicago, so he lived on all those streets. He said the war probably saved his life because he'd have ended up a dead musician, with all the crazy stuff they did on Rush Street back in the day.

Kim Basinger

#23. It can be a miserable profession, acting, because you always want what you can't have.

Eddie Redmayne

#24. As I became Speaker in 1986, I made a point of setting up a public information office to respond to requests and provide information about Parliament and how it functions.

John Allen Fraser

#25. I accept that it was a mistake to allow distinctions to be blurred between my professional responsibilities and my personal loyalties to a friend. Mr Speaker, I am sorry for this. I have apologised to the prime minister, to the public, and, at the first opportunity available, to the House.

Liam Fox

#26. A speaker should approach his preparation not by what he wants to say, but by what he wants to learn.

Todd Stocker

#27. Heartfelt communicators make such a difference in the lives of others through their authentic depth and sincere expression.

Miya Yamanouchi

#28. Freedom from all types of pain and misery is the exact (proper) religion. It is exact (proper) religion when egoism departs and all 'wrong beliefs' go away. If the 'wrong' beliefs' are there, true religion cannot be there.

Dada Bhagwan

#29. I also wanted you to realize that even though the pain will always be there, I'm living proof you can get past this. Right now I know it feels impossible, but one day you'll look back and see how far you've come.

E.L. Montes

#30. Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

Edgar Allan Poe

#31. Personally? I think there's more going on around us than we realize. I think God uses even the bad and ugly things in this world to lead us to a good place.

Max Lucado

#32. The speaker catches fire
looking at their faces.
His words
jump down to stand
in listener's places.

Langston Hughes

#33. Better to lurk, observe, and merge,

Neal Stephenson

#34. Even if it is only for a matter of moments, because those moments bring with them a Love so intense that it justifies the rest of our days.

Paulo Coelho

#35. I think having Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House is going to send a very wonderful lesson to the American public that women can be strong, they can be tough, they can be effective, and they can lead this country as political leaders.

Ellen Malcolm

#36. Would you kill all your answers so easily, gunslinger?

Stephen King

#37. In fact, Kote himself seemed rather sickly. Not exactly unhealthy, but hollow. Wan. Like a plant that's been moved into the wrong sort of soil and, lacking something vital, has begun to wilt.

Patrick Rothfuss

#38. I probably went to musique concrete concerts - though not the very first ones - at the beginning of the 50s.

Luc Ferrari

#39. People like Clyde McPhatter who came out of the black churches - like Sam Cooke and Aretha Franklin - were all church singers who became great pop singers because gospel singing is very close to the blues.

Ahmet Ertegun

#40. For many years of my life I thought one came down with a mood just as one comes down with a cold. But slowly I learned that moods are a product of purposeful unconsciousness and can be rectified by the very consciousness one worked so hard to evade.

Robert A. Johnson

#41. Dr. Prem, a world renowned speaker delivers flawless speeches on various topics including leadership, public speaking, business management and global healthcare. Dr. Prem is well informed and his speeches are well researched.

David Nelson

#42. Mr. Speaker, our Nation must no longer be complacent about underage drinking and its alarming consequences. We must bring this national public health crisis out of the shadow and into the bright light of a national priority.

Lucille Roybal-Allard

#43. Nothing disturbs me more than superficiality and mere sloganizing on matters of public policy, and the suspicion that what the speaker is saying represents the full extent of his knowledge on the subject.

Preston Manning