Top 100 Quotes About Speakers
#1. Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
Dale Carnegie
#2. I know so few people who actually give music their undivided attention, so I've been trying to just park myself on the couch between the speakers and listen.
Cliff Martinez
#3. The speaker must choose a comprehensible [verstandlich] expression so that speaker and hearer can understand one another.
Jurgen Habermas
#4. When a word ceases to be a term of description and becomes merely a term of praise, it no longer tells you about the object: it only tells you about the speakers attitude to that object.
C.S. Lewis
#5. It is remarkable that almost all speakers and writers feel it to be incumbent on them, sooner or later, to prove or acknowledge the personality of God. Some Earl of Bridgewater, thinking it better late than never, has provided for it in his will. It is a sad mistake.
Henry David Thoreau
#8. Headphone aren't big enough these days. Why not just throw a couple of stereo speakers in a full face motorcycle helmet.
Dov Davidoff
#9. There are two types of speakers: those that
are nervous and those that are liars.
Mark Twain
#10. Lyrics are weak, like clock radio speakers.
GZA
#11. I know that fewer people are won over by the written word than by the spoken word and that every great movement on this earth owes its growth to great speakers and not to great writers.
Adolf Hitler
#12. Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.
James Humes
#13. These are the bozos. They are graspers and self-promoters, shameless resume padders, people who describe themselves as "product marketing professionals," "growth hackers," "creative rockstar interns," and "public speakers.
Dan Lyons
#14. In an ideal world, the time English speakers devote to steeling themselves against, and complaining about, things like Billy and me, singular they, and impact as a verb would be better spent attending to genuine matters of graceful oral and written expression.
John McWhorter
#15. There are two kinds of speakers. Those who are nervous and those who are liars.
Mark Twain
#16. Listening is harvesting what is in the speaker's mind.
Michael Rost
#17. What are you doing?" asked Naomi from behind him, not from his helmet speakers. She was standing there with her helmet off. Sweat plastered her thick black hair to her head and neck.
James S.A. Corey
#18. I grew up in a highly Hispanic neighborhood. It was very rare to find any race other than Mexicans. I feel very comfortable around Spanish speakers and people from Mexico and people who don't always feel comfortable living in the U.S. because they are in fear of being deported.
Emily Rios
#19. As Rowland Hill said that he could not see why Satan should have the best tunes, so neither can I see why he should have the most graceful speakers!
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#20. I was not called to be a preacher. I am a speaker who is a Christian. I'm not a Christian speaker.
Andy Andrews
#21. 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
#22. I had grandparents who were native Irish speakers, and also, two of the four grandparents were illiterate.
Brian Friel
#23. Basically, asking me what kind of music I like is like asking what kind of food I like: 'Anything that tastes good,' is the answer. I'm the kind of guy who spends three times as much on his speakers as he does on his television.
Mohsin Hamid
#24. Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.
Jonathan Swift
#25. Those of you who have spent time with Australians know that we are not given to overstatement. By nature we are laconic speakers and by conviction we are realistic thinkers.
Julia Gillard
#26. He had a voice you couldn't miss: strong and penetrating with strange vowels that sounded different from the accents of other English speakers even to me. I later discovered that he was Canadian.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#27. The speakers sing with the sound, smiling to the heavens, angels dropping dead with the beautiful poison of her voice.
C.M. Stunich
#28. There has never been a meaningful life built on easy street.
John Paul Warren
#29. I've just worked out what the music on the speakers is," he said. "It's John Martyn, Over The Hill."
"And ?"
"And nothing. It's just, maybe I'm not there yet.
Ian Rankin
#30. I think from the very beginning with 'We Are Young,' there was never any question about where we wanted the song to go and what we wanted it to sound like. And we knew that we wanted it to be big, we wanted it to be booming over the speakers at an arena or something.
Andrew Dost
#31. Listening is seeking synchronicity with the speaker.
Michael Rost
#32. The vitality of language lies in its ability to limn the actual, imagined and possible lives of its speakers, readers, writers.
Toni Morrison
#33. In general, there are no bad audiences; only bad speakers.
John C. Maxwell
#34. The Bible equips us for ministry. And ministry is not limited to pastors, priests, nuns, speakers, authors, and Bible teachers. Ministry is doing God's work wherever He has placed us ... in our home, in our school, in our workplace, in our neighborhood, in our community, and in our world.
Wendy Blight
#35. The basic 110-volt AC power line moves the electrons at 60 cycles. If a transformer is close to the power source (and all speakers have transformers), the 60 cycles produce an audible hum. Crackling, caused by dirt on the sound head, can also be heard.
Sidney Lumet
#36. The Italians even have a word for the mark left on a table by a moist glass (culacino) while the Gaelic speakers of Scotland, not to be outdone, have a word for the itchiness that overcomes the upper lip just before taking a sip of whiskey. (Wouldn't they just?) It's sgriob.
Bill Bryson
#37. Some brains are barren grounds, that will not bring seed or fruit forth, unless they are well manured with the old wit which is raked from other writers and speakers.
Margaret Cavendish
#39. Babies and language are the essential ingredients of civilization, and speakers of language no more know where it came from than babies know where they come from.
Charlton Laird
#40. We try to preach innovation. We provide resources; we invite speakers in from universities to talk about new ideas.
Irwin M. Jacobs
#41. Anna, like most English speakers, thought GASP was a silly name for the project. But the name got the point across. If there were modern wonders of the world, GASP - and Kali - stood as far above them as the Colossus of Rhodes had stood above man.
A. Ashley Straker
#42. Is there anything in the world better than words on the page? Magic signs, the voices of the dead, building blocks to make wonderful worlds better than this one, comforters, companions in loneliness. Keepers of secrets, speakers of the truth ... all those glorious words.
Cornelia Funke
#43. Life seems to be fashioned and formed best out of the obstacles that seem unbearable.
John Paul Warren
#44. People often ask if I pay my speakers to speak. No I don't. If you are able to explain the benefits of the virtual summit to the speaker (which we address in chapter 5) then it will be easy for you to get the caliber of speakers you want.
Osayi Emokpae Lasisi
#45. Here is just the beginning of a list of skills that exam results cannot possibly hope to reflect: interpersonal skills, the ability to entertain, how articulate we are as speakers, our ability to work as part of a team, the ability to deal with challenges and invention.
Alexandra Adornetto
#47. The silence was suddenly too much. He hit the CD button on the car's radio. Brian Jones's sitar riff opened for Charlie Watts tribal-like drumbeat thundering from the speakers. Keith Richards' jangly guitar joined in, followed by Mick singing about seeing a red door that he wanted to paint black.
Glenn Rolfe
#48. Language is not a protocol legislated by an authority but rather a wiki that pools the contributions of millions of writers and speakers, who ceaselessly bend the language to their needs and who inexorably age, die, and get replaced by their children, who adapt the language in their turn.
Steven Pinker
#49. [On Italian:] One may almost call it a language that talks of itself, and always seems more witty than its speakers.
Madame De Stael
#50. If money is a form of speech, as the Supreme Court has regrettably found, rich donors will always be the loudest speakers.
Howard Dean
#51. A deaf and dumb person who sees two men in conversation - may nevertheless understand from the attitudes and gestures of the speakers, how well their discussion is getting along.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#52. Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
Anthony Trollope
#53. My first epiphany that this might work came on my first day, when I went into biofeedback. They hooked me up to computers through electrodes, put me in a comfortable lounge chair, put an eye pillow over my face, slipped speakers onto my head and played an audio guided visualization.
Brad Willis
#54. I have some speakers up here, thank God, because last night I didn't have them and I was telling jokes and I had no idea which joke I was telling. So I told jokes twice. I even told that one twice.
Mitch Hedberg
#55. All living languages are promiscuous. We promiscuous speakers shamelessly shoplift words, plucking bons mots and phrases from any tempting language. We wear these words when we wish to be more formal, more elegant, more mysterious, worldly, precise, vague.
Rabih Alameddine
#56. To use a big word or a foreign word when a small one and a familiar one will answer the same purpose, is a sign of ignorance. Great scholars and writers and polite speakers use simple words.
Joseph Devlin
#57. Her computer's fan whirred to life, blowing warm air onto her fingers. Two flame-red slits glowed from the monitor. The speakers boomed. "I lived! I died! I live again!"
Olivie had dealt with blue screens, frozen hourglasses, and even the odd hardware conflict back in the day. This was new.
Choong JayVee
#58. The choosing among words is made by every user of the language, and not exclusively by professional speakers and writers.
Wilson Follett
#59. I went from MC to being MS, this microphone controller is the motivational speaker.
Lupe Fiasco
#60. Leaders in OVER their heads is the mere result of getting ahead of their intended SEASON.
John Paul Warren
#61. Donald Trump is horrendous, but he is also honest. Both Presidents [Bill] Clinton and [Barak] Obama were great speakers, but unrepentant mass murderers.
Andre Vltchek
#62. I remember Iggy and the Stooges' song 'Search and Destroy' reaching out from my speakers to me like my own personal anthem.
Nikki Sixx
#63. Jericho swaggered through the door as a song by Audioslave cranked on the speakers. My heart galloped against my chest and I swallowed thickly, deciding I had no choice but to avoid him.
Dark, Dannika (2014-07-27). Five Weeks (Seven Series #3) (p. 60). Kindle Edition.
Dannika Dark
#64. English, as Charlton Laird has noted, is the only language that has, or needs, books of synonyms like Roget's Thesaurus. "Most speakers of other languages are not aware that such books exist" [The Miracle of Language, page 54].
Bill Bryson
#65. I think we are wise, we English speakers, to savor accents. They teach us things about our own tongue.
Anne Rice
#66. Motivation comes from within ... nobody can motivate u. Motivational speakers just help u search inside to unlock the power you had all along.
Darrius Garrett
#67. Tamilians love to irritate non-Tamil speakers by speaking in Tamil only.
Chetan Bhagat
#68. The attitude of independence toward a constructed language which all national speakers must adopt is really a great advantage, because it tends to make man see himself as the master of language instead of its obedient servant.
Edward Sapir
#69. Ultimately, the best speakers are the ones who have put 10,000 hours into listening.
James Altucher
#70. I remember being at the premiere of 'Beverly Hills Cop II' and the tremendous reaction from the crowd outside, then going to a party at a hotel afterwards where the speakers were blasting 'Shakedown,' a song from the movie. That felt like a show biz moment to me.
Gilbert Gottfried
#72. Defy all that's holy, for they are the seekers
Do the bidding for they are the devil's speakers
Justin Bienvenue
#74. The computer seems easy because Apple makes the products so easy to use at home. It's the simple things, like getting the TV set up or getting the speakers to work. That drives me crazy.
Chris O'Donnell
#75. There are a lot of good speakers nowadays, but very few good teachers.
D.R. Silva
#76. Caught in a bad romance. Whoaaa-oh-ooooh!"
Nellie wailed along to the XM radio blaring from the enormous speakers.
"Can I uncover my ears now?" Dan called from the back, where he was reclined across the leather seat. "Has Nellie stopped her Lady Gag Me impression?
Rick Riordan
#77. If there's one thing consistent about language it is that it is constantly changing. The only languages that do not change are those whose speakers are dead.
Rosalie Maggio
#78. A different voice slid through the speakers now--his voice. The one that raised armies, toppled kingdoms. The one that sent the entire stadium into a hush. Even the raindrops hung back in the sky; the air cleared into a spitting drizzle." p65
Ryan Graudin
#79. And certainly there are many speakers whom I'd like to see do more trembling, more unknowing, more apologizing.
Maggie Nelson
#80. An actor is an expert at being someone else. A speaker is an expert at being themselves.
Olivia
#81. Comedians are the best public speakers and are up against the most brutal audiences, so you must study them. Learn from them.
James Altucher
#82. Mirrors are both truth-speakers and liars.
Jodi Meadows
#83. I know that one is able to win people far more by the spoken that by the written word, and that every great movement on this globe owes its rise to the great speakers and not to the great writers.
Adolf Hitler
#84. I like to find music that shares a rhythm with the sentences I'm working on. And though I'll probably regret saying this, I think some songs actually don't sound too bad when they're played through lousy speakers.
Rosecrans Baldwin
#85. Speakers are very busy people, with their own lives.
Once you remember that sentence then it's easy to know how to treat them and attract them.
Osayi Emokpae Lasisi
#86. I went to junkyards, abandoned car lots. I asked supermarkets for the big jugs they put pig guts in, to make cabinets for my bass speakers.
Grandmaster Flash
#87. It makes a great difference to a speaker whether he has something to say, or has to say something.
Nellie L. McClung
#88. This weekend the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC, featured several speakers including Sarah Palin and Phil Robertson from 'Duck Dynasty.' It was a good weekend for conservatives - and a great weekend for wild animals.
Jimmy Fallon
#89. Great public speakers know this and build presentations around one of the senses predominantly, but they incorporate at least one or two others: sight, sound, touch, smell, and taste. Smell and taste are harder to incorporate
Carmine Gallo
#90. I usually disliked whatever was being played on a music store's speakers. It spoiled the pleasure of thinking about other music. Record shops, I felt, should be silent spaces; there, more than anywhere else, the mind needed to be clear.
Teju Cole
#91. The best public speakers are those who seem to genuinely enjoy giving a speech. Because they're relaxed, we're relaxed.
Richard Zeoli
#92. We cannot be speakers who do not listen. But neither can we be listeners who do not speak.
Mahatma Gandhi
#93. Some people were born to be mothers, fathers, inventors, artists, speakers, preachers . . . and then there was me.
Jeaniene Frost
#94. Done correctly, everyone from individual speakers to large organizations can inspire citizens and customers to spread a message using their own social channels, and in so doing, inspire countless supporters to build their reputation, profits and social impact.
Simon Mainwaring
#95. I worry about being a fogy and just writing for orchestras. Like, really, I should be doing more electronic stuff, I feel. Laptops as part of the orchestra, and installation sound, and speakers.
Jonny Greenwood
#96. The most striking aspect of linguistic competence is what we may call the 'creativity of language,' that is, the speaker's ability to produce new sentences, sentences that are immediately UNDERSTOOD by other speakers although they bear no physical resemblance to sentences which are 'familiar.
Noam Chomsky
#97. All it takes," said Crake, "is the elimination of one generation. One generation of anything. Beetles, trees, microbes, scientists, speakers of French, whatever. Break the link in time between one generation and the next, and it's game over forever.
Margaret Atwood
#98. A talk is a voyage. It must be charted. The speaker who starts nowhere, usually gets there.
Dale Carnegie
#99. The intercom crackled. Buford's Mini-Hedge yelled over the speakers, PUT SOME CLOTHES ON!
Rick Riordan
#100. The duty of a toastmaster is to be so dull that the succeeding speakers will appear brilliant by contrast.
Clarence Budington Kelland
