Quotes About Persuasive Speech

#1. 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

#2. There is nothing in the world like persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus.

Mark Twain

#3. Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke and eloquence of eyes.

Homer

#4. No two electrons in the same state? That is why atoms are so unnecessarily big, and why metal and stone are so bulky.

Paul Ehrenfest

#5. Perfection, in the form of a flawless stream of words delivered with cool composure, is never as persuasive as realness. An impassioned but imperfect speech, which shows you care too much to hide flaws, is far more compelling.

Charlotte Beers

#6. The Universe has a plan to make sure we don't ever stop learning, not only in our minds, but also in our hearts.

Pam Houston

#7. Air pollution is turning Mother Nature prematurely gray.

Irv Kupcinet

#8. I don't deserve a soul, yet I still have one. I know because it hurts.

Douglas Coupland

#9. It might be argued, that to be a knave is the gift of fortune, but to play the fool to advantage it is necessary to be a learned man.

William Hazlitt

#10. I would be extremely stupid if I said that my looks had absolutely nothing to do with what I do, it [moviemaking] is a visual medium. I'm perfectly aware of that, the face and the body help. Of course they do.

Keira Knightley

#11. They're telling you to blend in,
like you've never seen how a blender works,
like they think you've never seen the mess from the blade.

Andrea Gibson

#12. The York magicians had all looked over the letter and expressed their doubts that any body with such small handwriting could ever make a tolerable magician.

Susanna Clarke

#13. Both happiness and unhappiness depend on perception

Marcus Aurelius

#14. The main function of color should be to serve expression.

Henri Matisse

#15. The chief difference between good writing and better writing may be measured by the number of imperceptible hesitations the reader experiences as he goes along.

James J. Kilpatrick

#16. And as we round the bend toward Ivy Cottage, he tugs my braid just the way he always has ever since I was six, and then he reaches down and takes my hand.
Maybe sometimes dreams really do come true.

Heather Vogel Frederick

#17. I'm walking through the city
Like a drunk, but not
With my slip showing a little
Like a drunk, but not
And I am one of your people
But the cars don't stop
And I am one of your people
But the cars don't stop

Regina Spektor

#18. If I should fall from grace with God
Where no doctor can relieve me
If I'm buried 'neath the sod
But the angels won't receive me
Let me go, boys
Let me go, boys
Let me go down in the mud
Where rivers all run dry

Shane MacGowan

#19. Pirate queens never trip. -Isabella Weston

Sara Lindsey

#20. It's not that we're supposed to enjoy it; it's that we're supposed to allow it and then respond in a more persuasive voice. That's the bedrock of the First Amendment - the answer to speech you do not like is not less speech, it's more speech. In

Megyn Kelly