Quotes About Speech Contest

#1. How can there not already be a rapper named 'O'pinion'?

Dov Davidoff

#2. Life is both short and complicated. People sometimes make baffling choices.

Amy Dickinson

#3. As in Jesus' time, so today, tyranny and pride need to be whipped out of the temple, and humility and divine Science to be welcomed in.

Mary Baker Eddy

#4. Very astute, Harry, but the mouth organ was only ever a mouth organ. - Albus Dumbledore

J.K. Rowling

#5. If anyone ever had a heart
He wouldn't turn around and break it
If anyone ever played a part
he wouldn't turn around and hate it.

Lou Reed

#6. I was always a clown. In the eighth grade I won a city speech contest by doing an Eddie Murphy routine. I'm no good at public speaking, but if I can assume a role and speak as that person, then I'm fine. When I had to give a book report, I always did it in character.

Jason Wiles

#7. You don't get it. He was all I had. Adam was it. That was it. And you all took it away."
He flinched and dropped my arm. "That's not true. I'm here for you."
Shaking my head, I backed up. "I don't know you, so that means nothing to me.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#8. Nobody knows what you want except you, and no one will be as sorry as you if you don't get it.

Lillian Hellman

#9. Looking back on months and years of intimacy, to feel that your friend, while you still remember the moving words you exchanged, is yet growing distant and living in a world apart - all this is sadder far than partings brought by death.

Yoshida Kenko