Top 100 Quotes About Speakers
#1. I did a club one night - the speakers were old as hell. My jokes were coming out in black and white.
J. B. Smoove
#2. Music as background to me becomes like a mosquito, an insect. In the studio we have big speakers, and to me that's the way music should be listened to. When I listen to music, I want to just listen to music.
David Lynch
#3. A bottomless pit of violence, a Tower of Babel where all are speakers and no hearers.
Alexander Smith
#4. Gestures and facial expressions do indeed communicate, as anyone can prove by turning off the sound on a television set and asking watchers to characterize the speakers from the picture alone.
Peter Farb
#5. This music, transmitted by loud-speakers, made a masterpiece appear like an amateurish attempt at composition by nimcompoop
Paul Hindemith
#6. Music should come crashing out of your speakers and grab you, and the lyrics should challenge whatever preconceived notions that listener has.
Lou Reed
#7. Speakers who have grown up in the American community unconsciously know its rules about taking turns in conversations-in the same way that they know the rules of grammar and the rules about appropriate speech in various situations.
Peter Farb
#8. My father worked two jobs. He assembled speakers during the day, and then he sold real estate at night and on weekends. And then he eventually, when he was in his mid-50s, became a full-time real estate salesman.
Terry J. Lundgren
#9. When I listen to great music, the first thing I wonder is what people were saying when this came out of the speakers in the studio. I want to know what happened when they played it and said, "This is the one!"
Jay-Z
#10. When I think of my Latina side, I imagine family barbecues with carne asada, rice, beans, tortillas and a jalapeno on my plate along with 'Vicente Fernandez' blaring out the speakers. Spicy food. Salsa. Tamales. Family.
Alicia Sixtos
#11. Forcing modern speakers of English to not - whoops, not to split an infinitive because it isn't done in Latin makes about as much sense as forcing modern residents of England to wear laurels and togas.
Steven Pinker
#12. Edible. But I still hated the shows and hated myself for hating them. The clubs were smoky, which hurt my eyes and made my clothes stink. The speakers were always turned up so high that the music blared, causing my ears to ring so
Gayle Forman
#13. English is not merely a language anymore; it has become a way of life for millions of non-native English speakers around the world.
M.F. Moonzajer
#14. Humor plays a key role in the playbooks of the world's most inspiring public speakers.
Carmine Gallo
#15. I don't know whether I see it as slipping inside the villains, but part of what makes Ralph Nader and Michael Moore such effective speakers and communicators is that they know how corporate culture works, how our lawmaking bodies really work, and where the bones are buried.
Jello Biafra
#16. Speakers have been showering us with pearls of wisdom for centuries, and if all of their valuable advice were laid end to end, it would still be just as good as new. Very little of it has ever been used.
Benjamin Franklin Fairless
#17. Our language places us in a cultural continuum, linking us to the past, and showing our meanings also to future fellow-speakers.
Nicholas Ostler
#18. I have speakers all over my house because music is such a huge, huge part of who I am.
Nikki Reed
#19. My dad is from Japanese descent, my mom is from Swedish descent and, through marriages and divorces, a pretty multicultural family - a lot of Spanish speakers in the family.
Cary Fukunaga
#20. And some poets are far better read off the page because they're very bad speakers. I'm thinking of one in particular whom I won't name, a good poet, and he reads in such a dry, boring way, your eyes start drooping.
Norman MacCaig
#21. It(Boston Bombings) was worth it to hear you(survivor speakers) speak.
Joe Biden
#22. I'm busier than a busy person. People aren't scared to play this raucous, harsh music over radio speakers, so I think it's the perfect time to get in with some real serious, heavy bands.
Jason Newsted
#23. Some of the speakers we bring on campus may not reflect official church teaching, but that's how it is.
William P. Leahy
#24. The mass migration of the poorest of the poor to America is bad for the whole country, but it's fantastic for Democrats. Ask yourself: Which party benefits from illiterate non-English speakers who have absolutely no idea what they're voting for, but can be instructed to learn certain symbols?
Ann Coulter
#25. She stood in front of the speakers instead and closed her eyes, not really dancing, just bouncing and whispering the lyrics. After the first verse, she was dancing.
Rainbow Rowell
#26. Before I'd written movies, I never could do big set-piece scenes with a lot of different speakers - when you've got twelve people around a dinner table talking at cross purposes. I had always been impressed by other people's ability to do that.
Joan Didion
#27. Prescriptive grammar has spread linguistic insecurity like a plague among English speakers for centuries, numbs us to the aesthetic richness of non-standard speech, and distracts us from attending to genuine issues of linguistic style in writing.
John McWhorter
#28. Sometimes it's the mistakes that end up leading you into new territory .. like the guitar solo on 'Peelin' Taters' - I had some speaker problems, but the tone ended up sounding better than if I had new speakers .. it's a 60's Nashville, 'uptown' thing
Junior Brown
#29. I, indeed, following the true law of history, have never set down any fact that I have not learned from trustworthy speakers or writers.
William Of Malmesbury
#30. I want my music to jump off the stage and out of the speakers. When we do 'Rain Is A Good Thing' paired back to back with 'Country Girl,' it just feels like the roof is fixin' to come off the place.
Luke Bryan
#31. Presidents and speakers for over 100 years had tried to pass affordable care for all Americans. It was challenged over and over. The Supreme Court declared it constitutional.
Nancy Pelosi
#32. When I give talks like the one I'm going to give at the Changing Advertising Summit, one of the points I often make to the audience is that I'm not one of those speakers who stands in front of the audience and pontificates - everything I talk about I'm actually doing myself. I'm living it.
Cindy Gallop
#33. That's because speakers are only credible when what they say is in sync with who they are.
Christopher Witt
#34. Containing several hundred languages, among them several world languages, the Indo-European language family is the language family with the most speakers world-wide.
Soren Eberhardt
#35. consider experimenting with programs like Prezi, Powtoon, Emaze and Focusky among others. Here are some tips to help you make your presentation slide: It would be recommended to use images and photos. If you would watch TED-style talks, most of the speakers use images to convey a point.
Jacob Andrews
#36. Werent those well-intentioned speakers condemning the broken for being broken?
Mike Yankoski
#37. The biggest mistake made by emerging speakers is that they discount their own experience.
Darren LaCroix
#38. George Bush, Dick Cheney, every one of the speakers praised John Kerry's war record. No one said he was unfit. They said he has terrible judgment, and that's his record as a senator. Nobody questioned his military record.
Peter T. King
#39. The spiritual-but-nonreligious movement is largely driven by charismatic authors and speakers who attract like-minded people to their workshops and intensives.
Gudjon Bergmann
#40. President Clinton is going to embrace President Obama, as he should. They are working together. They're different kinds of people. Obama is cool, Clinton is a schmoozer. Both are great speakers. It's a great merging of the party.
Bill Richardson
#41. It is like sitting in a traffic jam on the San Diego Freeway with your windows rolled up and Portuguese music booming out of the surround-sound speakers while animals gnaw on your neck and diseased bill collectors hammer on your doors with golf clubs.
Hunter S. Thompson
#42. Live your fear." Why didn't we teach kids that? Why wasn't that in a graduation speech? Commencement speakers should start telling the truth: "You're going to fuck up, but most of the time, that's all right.
Mara Wilson
#43. I got a man cave. I play my music loud. I bought big speakers because I need to hear music loud.
Marlon Wayans
#44. Automated call centers are only the most obvious way speech recognition will be used. The software is now becoming sophisticated enough to identify speakers through 'voiceprints,' akin to fingerprints, eventually reducing the need for personal identification numbers.
Alex Berenson
#45. When there is official censorship it is a sign that speech is serious. Where there is none, it is pretty certain that the official spokesmen have all the loud-speakers.
Paul Goodman
#46. What was it about English speakers that allowed them to talk into transmitters as if the sky were a diary?
Adam Johnson
#47. How often we all have heard speakers begin by calling the attention of the audience to their lack of preparation or lack of ability. If you are not prepared, the audience will probably discover it without your assistance.
Dale Carnegie
#48. In an ideal world, one populated by vegetarians and Esperanto speakers, derivatives would be used for one thing only: reducing levels of risk. The list of individual traders who have lost more than a billion dollars at a time betting on derivatives is not short.
John Lanchester
#49. [I] browsed far outside science in my reading and attended public lectures - Bertrand Russell, H. G. Wells, Huxley, and Shaw being my favorite speakers.
Raymond Cattell
#50. The best sounds a kid will get is in a movie theater, with huge speakers, turned up loud. I always mix my music really loud. I don't care if you don't hear all the dialogue. The audience are not idiots.
John Hughes
#51. Poor speakers create an artificial divide between themselves and the audience. They feel they need to do this in order to establish their own credibility.
James Altucher
#52. When I saw the Penderecki concert in London, in '92 or '93, I thought there were speakers in the room. It was just strings. But I could hear these kind of buzzings and rumblings, and I was like, 'Where is this all coming from?' And that was just better, to my ears. Odder, stranger, more magical.
Jonny Greenwood
#53. I like doing things in a very minimal, unconventional way as a personal way of saying, 'Look, I made a career out of carefully and craftfully, though unconventionally, making records on laptops and blown speakers.'
Skrillex
#54. Good speakers usually find when they finish that there have been four versions of the speech: the one they delivered, the one they prepared, the one the newspapers say was delivered, and the one on the way home they wish they had delivered.
Dale Carnegie
#55. We're the therapists pumping through your speakers delivering just what you need.
Fall Out Boy
#56. Our language is the reflection of ourselves. A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers.
Cesar Chavez
#57. If Madison had a gun, she'd shoot out the sound system pumping "Jingle Bells" through her office speakers. Instead, she bit off Rudolph's chocolate head and pointed a finger at the brightly colored, foil-wrapped Santa on her desk. "You're next, big guy.
Debbie Mason
#58. My parents were both Spanish-speakers and they used to speak to me and my siblings in Spanish and we'd answer them in English.
America Ferrera
#59. His music gave no lesser joy than a vacation. Creativity in his music and its success stood out as an example to all kinds of artists, in the lectures of business speakers, engineers, and to anyone who built or constructed something in their respective profession.
Amit Kalantri
#61. The complexities of the English language are such that even native speakers cannot always communicate effectively, as almost every American learns on his first day in Britain.
Bill Bryson
#62. If we were rational enough to judge what we are fed based on what we are fed, those in the business of selling us hope (i.e., public speakers, presidents, priests, etc.) wouldn't wear suits.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#63. There are only two types of speakers in the world. 1. The nervous and 2. Liars.
Mark Twain
#64. Metaphor ... is, as a common feature of linguistic practice, an incidental expediency, a homely administering of first-aid by mother-wit to jams or halts in expression suddenly confronting speakers, with no respectable linguistic solution immediately in sight.
Laura Riding
#65. Kids now are so used to surround sound and the power in theater speakers, that the concert hall is a disappointment to them.
David Ogden Stiers
#66. Give Obama a script he has made his own, and he is the motivational speaker to end all speakers. Tony Robbins cloned with Honest Abe.
Tina Brown
#67. We were fools and now we were driving to our deaths in a rental car. Janet Jackson was tinkling from the speakers, asking what we had done for her as of late
Dave Eggers
#68. Language and History in Viking Age England: Language Relations between Speakers of Old Norse and Old English (Turnbout, 2002).
F. Donald Logan
#69. Jim Rohn is one of the most articulate, powerful, thought-provoking speakers I've seen. His unique delivery and style puts him head and shoulders above the rest.
Harvey MacKay
#70. A communist conspiracy among the youth ... speakers on campuses/trained to condition idealistic brains
Allen Ginsberg
#71. To preach biblically means much more than to preach the truth of the Bible accurately. It also means to present that truth the way the biblical writers and speakers presented it.
Zack Eswine
#72. The art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise enough to read.
Charles Caleb Colton
#73. Then his voice resonates over the speakers again. 'A good friend helped me find these lyrics again, and I told her if she ever fell, I'd be there to catch her. She told me if I ever sang this song like I just did, it'd be a success. Well, I'm keeping up my end of the deal.
P.K. Hrezo
#74. For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.
Ben Jonson
#75. I have come to feel strongly that the greatest service I can still render to my fellow men would be that I could make the speakers and writers among them thoroughly ashamed ever again to employ the term social justice.
Friedrich August Von Hayek
#76. Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught.
Sydney J. Harris
#77. He made us write papers without using "good," "bad," "very," "like," or any form of "to be," and it was the native speakers who found this impossible - "is" slipped out no matter how hard we tried to stop it - and many of us failed these assignments.
James Browning
#78. Words belong to nobody, and in themselves they evaluate nothing. But they can serve any speaker and be used for the most varied and directly contradictory evaluations on the part of the speakers.
Mikhail Bakhtin
#79. What English speakers call "computer science" Europeans have known as informatique, informatica, and Informatik
James Gleick
#80. How do I stack up?" I asked. "Against what?" He stared at the ceiling. "Your bike." "Not even in the same league, darlin'. Your pipes rumble so loud, Harleys should just play you on speakers.
Paige Notaro
#81. I haven't done the profoundly impactful work many TED speakers have.
Cameron Russell
#82. Speakers are not supposed to waste time on platitudes, but the capacity of this generation for ignoring the obvious and concentrating on the negative and the obscure is immense.
Arthur Hays Sulzberger
#83. When you're looking at small languages, the population of speakers is so small that there might not be people with the expertise in science or agronomy to write optimal planting strategies for maize in the local language.
Philip M. Parker
#84. The nature of oratory is such that there has always been a tendency among politicians and clergymen to oversimplify complex matters. From a pulpit or a platform even the most conscientious of speakers finds it very difficult to tell the whole truth.
Aldous Huxley
#85. Hitler and Mussolini even went so far as to persecute Esperanto speakers.
Bill Bryson
#86. Damn Speakers! I always forget about her sneaky little spies. The image of a little voyeur squirrel hanging around outside my window and then running to Jenna to report any indiscretions on my part was absolutely horrifying.
D.T. Dyllin
#87. All language is a set of symbols whose use among its speakers assumes a share past
Jorge Luis Borges
#88. The studio part, to me, can be pretty laborious. You're inside for hours on end and can be pretty frustrating to get the sound you hear in your head to come out of those speakers.
Mike Love
#90. It was not uncommon to walk in the door of their home and find my mother sitting on the sofa reading over a manuscript with shampoo horns sculpted into her hair. Anne Sexton's voice would be blasting from the speakers. A woman who writes feels too much ...
Augusten Burroughs
#91. While Egyptian speakers learned Greek, it was rare that anyone ventured in the opposite direction. To the punishing study of Egyptian, however, Cleopatra applied herself. She was allegedly the first and only Ptolemy to bother to learn the language of the 7 million people over whom she ruled.
Stacy Schiff
#92. The prevailing attitude of the speakers was one of heavy disagreement with a number of things which the reader had not said.
Ronald Knox
#93. Ironically, pretending that parenting is easy diminishes the value of family. As truth seekers and truth speakers, we need to be honest about the cost of parenting.
Leslie Leyland Fields
#94. Language does not stand still. Surprisingly, despite this knowledge, most speakers are fearful of change.
Peter Farb
#95. Quite often in history action has been the echo of words. An era of talk was followed by an era of events. The new barbarism of the twentieth century is the echo of words bandied about by brilliant speakers and writers in the second half of the nineteenth.
Eric Hoffer
#96. I'm always blowing the speakers out in studios, like, there's smoke coming out of them. I found out that I'm not built for studio monitors. I record and mix down everything in the headphones and then I bring it to the speakers.
AraabMuzik
#97. George Bernard Shaw of England stopped over just long enough to make one speech in Bombay, India, started a war and 100 Indians killed each other. That's what I call good speech-making. The only enthusiasm any of our speakers can rouse is a demand to kill the speaker.
Will Rogers
#98. My persona is less miserable than a lot of contemporary poetry speakers are.
Billy Collins
#99. There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us. Otherwise, you know, why not just come out and say it?
Barbara Ehrenreich
#100. English has always had a special fondness for other European languages, a neighborly soft spot - perhaps because Britain has been invaded by speakers of those languages from the onset of its recorded history.
Rabih Alameddine
