Top 37 Quotes About Long Speeches
#1. Better than a long speech is a single quietening word.
Gautama Buddha
#2. The terms of copyright last far too long: either the life of the author plus 70 years after death for a personal work or 95 years for a corporate work. That length doesn't encourage more authorship - it merely limits the speakers who could share powerful speeches, books, and films.
Marvin Ammori
#3. In school, it got so that Elijah learned to talk his way out of anything, gave great long speeches so that his words snaked themselves like vines around the nuns until they could no longer move, [ ... ].
Joseph Boyden
#4. If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter.
Markus Zusak
#5. This life is a perpetual chequer-work of good and evil, pleasure and pain. When in possession of what we desire, we are only so much the nearer losing it; and when at a distance from it, we live in expectation of enjoying it again.
Marie De Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise De Sevigne
#6. I've never thought my speeches were too long; I've rather enjoyed them.
Hubert H. Humphrey
#7. [Beowolf] is considered an epic because of its long speeches, its digressions, its repetition, and its being required.
Richard Armour
#8. I kept my speeches short as captain. I focused on the key points of the opposition of the day. As coach, I was never afraid to give long speeches to the players throughout our preparations. It was important they had all the information possible.
Franz Beckenbauer
#9. I've got three kids, and those are mouths to feed.
Simon Le Bon
#10. 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
#11. The long version of the play is actually an easier version to follow. In all of the cut versions the intense speeches are cut too close together for the audience and the actors.
Kenneth Branagh
#12. Every man should study conciseness in speaking; it is a sign of ignorance not to know that long speeches, though they may please the speaker, are the torture of the hearer.
Owen Feltham
#13. You have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer.
Billy West
#14. The Republic isn't as much fun as The Symposium. It's all long speeches, and nobody bursting in drunk to woo Socrates in the middle.
Jo Walton
#15. Peace depends upon compromise among peoples who must live together long after our speeches are over, and our votes have been counted.
Barack Obama
#16. Bitter experience has taught me that you don't engage with intellectually superior wankers who make long speeches about moral relativism.
Alexis Hall
#17. In as short a time as Mr. Collins's long speeches would allow,
Anonymous
#18. I am sorry to say that sometimes matters of very small importance waste a good deal of precious time, by the long and repeated speeches and chicanery of gentlemen who will not wholly throw off the lawyer even in Congress.
William Whipple
#19. I guess when you're a drama teacher, you're used to memorizing long speeches.
James Patterson
#20. I had a very feminist mother who exposed me not only to Planned Parenthood - my first job - but also to Betty Friedan and Colette and Naomi Wolf.
Liz Goldwyn
#21. I cease not to advocate peace; even though unjust it is better than the most just war.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#22. I think there is a lot of fat in the government.
Luis Fortuno
#24. Almost all human affairs are tedious. Everything is too long. Visits, dinners, concerts, plays, speeches, pleadings, essays, sermons, are too long. Pleasure and business labor equally under this defect, or, as I should rather say, this fatal super-abundance.
Arthur Helps
#25. Strictures, reproaches, and intemperate speeches from the Senator of Louisiana are really the wailings of an apostle of despair; he has lost control of himself, he is trying to play billiards with elliptical billiard balls and a spiral cue.
Huey Long
#26. Salvation is a gift. Godliness is the pursuit.
Beth Moore
#27. Nature doesn't make long speeches.
Laozi
#28. Now there is a new request. To release transcripts of speeches that were given. When everybody agrees to do that, I will as well. It is important we all abide by the same standards. So let's do the tax return standard first, because that has been the standard for a long time.
Hillary Clinton
#29. There are times when silence is the most sacred of responses.
Eugene Kennedy
#31. 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
#33. Neil Kinnock's speeches go on for so long because he has nothing to say and so he has no way of knowing when he's finished saying it.
John Major
#34. I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways; I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight, I can divine it by conscience. And from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice.
Theodore Parker
#35. we soon began to feel the effects of liberty and long speeches, and radicalism, and all that sort of thing.
Edgar Allan Poe
#36. The leader teaches more through being than through doing. The quality of one's silence conveys more than long speeches.
John Heider
#37. What I look for these days is that I don't have long speeches, the characters gets to sit down a lot, I don't have to learn any foreign languages, and it doesn't shoot in Minneapolis in February. That's mainly what I look for.
Alan Arkin