Quotes About Speech Giving

#1. People underestimate me, maybe because of my look, maybe because of my speech, and I love that. I love to give the impression that I'm an easy victim. I ain't nobody's fool, believe that. - Author: Edgerrin James

#2. Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the impression that their style was nursed by the closest attention to colloquial speech. - Author: Thornton Wilder

#3. I see this in the way that sermons are preached. How would you give a Black Nationalist speech or campaign for the Republicans when you're an integrated congregation? It doesn't happen. - Author: Michael Emerson

#4. Man is born with the faculty of speech. Who gives it to him? He who gives the bird its song. - Author: Joseph Joubert

#5. This was the stuff nightmares were made of. Going to school in your Spiderman pj's. Giving a public speech naked. And discovering you'd accidentally slept with your boss. - Author: Jill Shalvis

#6. Right motives give pinions to thought, and strength and freedom to speech and action. - Author: Mary Baker Eddy

#7. Dr. King didn't get famous giving a speech that said,"I have a complaint." - Author: Van Jones

#8. I've always enjoyed hiding behind these characters. It's a strange thing, you're more comfortable as a character than you are in life. I could stand up in front of, it doesn't matter how many people, as a character. But if I had to do it as myself and give a speech, I would be liquid. - Author: Johnny Depp

#9. It is a wonderful thing that so many, and they not reckoned absurd, shall entertain those with whom they converse by giving them the history of their pains and aches and imagine such narrations their quota of conversation. - Author: Richard Steele

#10. I give them experiments and they respond with speeches. - Author: Louis Pasteur

#11. 'This is how democracy works,' Barack Obama lectured the country before giving everyone the specifics of his expansive one-man executive overreach on immigration. If you enjoy platitudinous straw men but are turned off by open debate and constitutional order, this speech was for you. - Author: David Harsanyi

#12. You can't give any exciting speech without misremembering things. - Author: Lena Dunham

#13. Giving a true speech, a true, passionate speech, is old-school football. - Author: Richard Sherman

#14. At the end of your life, do you give a concession speech? - Author: Jon Stewart

#15. Elections are a competition with only one winner. Giving more money to the opponent every time one speaks on behalf of a favored candidate discourages the speech that triggers the matching funds. - Author: Bradley A. Smith

#16. The form of a work of art, which gives speech to their thoughts and is, therefore, their mode of talking, is always somewhat uncertain, like all kinds of speech. - Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

#17. The odd American idea that giving money to political campaigns is free speech means that the very rich have far more free speech, and so in effect far more voting power, than other citizens. - Author: Timothy Snyder

#18. This Thursday, Barack Obama is gonna give his acceptance speech, and reportedly it's going to include performances by Bon Jovi and Bruce Springsteen. Yeah. And they say Obama's not black enough! - Author: Conan O'Brien

#19. I was giving a speech one time, and the woman who introduced me said, 'Well, she used to be J. D. Salinger's girlfriend. I thought, 'God, is that all I've been?' I didn't want to be reduced to that. - Author: Joyce Maynard

#20. It is important to understand that counterproducti ve actions of body, speech and mind do not arise of their own accord, but spring up in dependence on our motivation. Faulty states of mind give rise to faulty actions. To control negative physical and verbal actions, we need to tame our minds. - Author: Dalai Lama

#21. This is my maiden voyage. My first speech since I was the president of the United States and I couldn't think of a better place to give it than Calgary, Canada. - Author: George W. Bush

#22. Don't give a speech. Put on a show. - Author: Paul Arden

#23. Your 'let's remain calm and stay put' speech would be a lot more convincing if you weren't giving it in front of a pile of burning skeletons. - Author: David Wong

#24. I feel like if I won an award and I was giving my speech and the music started, that's all I'd remember, the humiliation I felt when the music started. It would mar the entire experience for me. - Author: Seth Rogen

#25. One of the areas I have a little less confidence in is giving any kind of a speech. - Author: Danica Patrick

#26. That's me, giving myself a tough-love speech. I'm going to start doing that more often, I've decided. One might as well put his inner monologue to good use. - Author: Matthew Norman

#27. I also had a stuttering problem. In a Mexican home they don't give you speech therapy; they don't even know what speech therapy is. They just get the belt. If there's a parrot in the house, you better talk better than the parrot. - Author: Felipe Esparza

#28. I was asked to give a speech on the Everest swim, and during the Everest swim, I changed. I changed as a person, I honestly did. That mountain changed me, and I gave a speech about it for nine minutes. - Author: Lewis Pugh

#29. Talk to people no one else is talking to. Who would have thought that giving a speech at a funeral at age 12 would introduce me to a man who would introduce me to my first business contact who would introduce me to several other important people in my life. That's luck. That's randomness. - Author: Ben Casnocha

#30. I often wonder if I have fulfilled my purpose. I believe the key to living life to the fullest is to always be recognizing opportunities and following your own path. To enjoy every minute, whether it's writing a novel, giving a speech, or petting the kitties, it's your life. - Author: David Mezzapelle

#31. The Tucson speech [of Barack Obama] was brilliant, and I'm so angry at Republicans for jumping on him because you have to give credit. Part of being successful is to give credit to people who you may not disagree with when they do well. - Author: Frank Luntz

#32. You're wasting your time
Giving me that speech
you try to don't reach:
your smile <3
You're holding your tears
Your insides are dead
You're eating your fears,
In a cigarette.
You've waited too long,
to finally see ...
Sunshine in the rain
is as deep as the sea. - Author: Ed Sheeran

#33. Ensure that your daily chores, thought, actions, speeches and steps are taken with the purpose of giving you a good brand. Decide to be who God wanted you to be. - Author: Israelmore Ayivor

#34. I'll be giving a speech at the randomest place, like a bank or something, and a guy in a suit will say, 'I'm totally freaked out that I'm talking to the girl from 'Cremaster.' For the rest of my life, that movie will be playing in a museum somewhere. I never could have expected that huge response. - Author: Aimee Mullins

#35. When asked to give a speech never turn it down. It is a chance to develop you and to give new insight to others - Author: Jim Rohn

#36. Leonard Cohen can give you "Leonard Cohen" - the self-deprecating wit, the slow, considered speech, the perfectly-honed anecdote - Tom Waits is far more comfortable giving a journalist "Tom Waits" the character, whose conversation is really a series of strange tales, learned or ad-libbed. - Author: Sylvie Simmons

#37. You've got to find a difierent approach. You've got to create some interest in your language, in the words and pictures you create. If a candidate can't give a 10-minute speech and have reporters reaching for their pens in the first 90 seconds, he probably shouldn't be running. - Author: Roger Ailes

#38. It would be lovely if he and his wife would succeed in dying before the matter of inherited property was finally settled. Then the person giving the speech at the funeral would be able to say that until the very end they had been able to pursue what they loved: sailing. [p. 121] - Author: Jenny Erpenbeck

#39. Singing is best, it gives right joy to speech. - Author: Genevieve Taggard

#40. I think nobody wants to hear a sermon. Well, some people do, but maybe not through music or not with me. No one wants to hear me give a speech that way. - Author: Serj Tankian

#41. Anyone who has ever had the feeling of being higher than a kite after giving a public speech is well aware of the effects of attention. - Author: Keith Henson

#42. I don't think that [Hillary Clinton] can turn around her honesty and trustworthiness problems with one speech, but she could present herself tonight as more relatable, give people a glimpse of that warm, funny woman the people who meet her in small groups and one-on-one say that she is. - Author: Tamara Keith

#43. On many young actors that don't give their parents proper credit: I'm still waiting for some actor to win, say, an Oscar ... and deliver the following acceptance speech: I would like to thank my parents, first of all, for letting me live. - Author: Bill Cosby

#44. Carli Fiorina is really annoying. Hell, they're all annoying. But Fiorina doesn't even pretend to offer up policy answers. She just gives mini stump speeches about how bad everything is. - Author: Kevin Drum

#45. Let us always remember that he does not really believe his own opinion, who dares not give free scope to his opponent. - Author: Wendell Phillips

#46. When I go into schools to speak, I am not giving a speech - it's really a one-man show. I call it 'didactic standup.' - Author: Bruce Coville

#47. New Rule: President Bush must stop acting like WE'RE the idiots. He gives speech after speech, and the theme is always the same; 'What part of freedom don't you get, you morons?'. I'll answer that for you Mr. President. The part where you give it to people by blowing them up. - Author: Bill Maher

#48. There is no such thing as realistic dialogue. If you [simply recorded] the real conversation of any people and played it back from the stage, it would be impossible to listen to. It would be redundant ... The good dialogue writer is the one who can give you the impression of real speech. - Author: Joseph L. Mankiewicz

#49. The aim is not to give human beings real goals that warrant belief, and tasks to share in, but to re-establish "belonging," although this kind of speech and thought is precisely calculated to avoid contact and so makes belonging impossible. - Author: Paul Goodman

#50. If you have to make an unpopular speech, give it all the sincerity you can muster; that's the only way to sweeten it. - Author: Jean Francois Paul De Gondi

#51. Never drink more than one cocktail before giving a talk. True, the drinks may relax you, but they may also slur your speech and blur your memory, making you wonder who are all those people out there and why are they staring at you? - Author: Teresa Bloomingdale

#52. In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste. - Author: Moliere

#53. The best public speakers are those who seem to genuinely enjoy giving a speech. Because they're relaxed, we're relaxed. - Author: Richard Zeoli

#54. While we generally believe in free speech and giving everyone as much ability to speak as possible, in practice there are lots of barriers to that, whether it's legal restrictions, technological restrictions or you can't share what you want if you don't have access to the internet. - Author: Mark Zuckerberg

#55. I can give the loser leave to chide. - Author: William Shakespeare

#56. In a speech in South Carolina, Donald Trump responded to criticisms from Senator Lindsey Graham by giving out Graham's personal cellphone number. Graham knew something was up when he saw he had more than one missed call. - Author: Jimmy Fallon

#57. Does freedom of speech give the right to offend? - Author: Maajid Nawaz

#58. Bill and Hillary Clinton are married, so under the law, paying him for a speech is like giving money directly to Hillary Clinton for 2010 record - to the Secretary of State, i can not think of a comparable ' pay to play ' scandal. - Author: Tom Fitton