Quotes For Extemporaneous Speech

#1. Go to k the ant, O l sluggard; consider her ways, and m be wise. 7 n Without having any chief, o officer, or ruler, 8 she prepares her bread p in summer

Anonymous

#2. Ah, what a morning this is, awakening me to life's stupidity. [98 - Zenith trans.]

Fernando Pessoa

#3. Rule A: Don't. Rule A1: Rule A doesn't exist. Rule A2: Do not discuss the existence or non-existence of Rules A, A1 or A2.

R.D. Laing

#4. I'm a bad son of a bitch, I'm a hard son of a bitch, I deserve a frigging medal.

Jackson Spencer Bell

#5. A billion saved is a billion earned.

Norman Ralph Augustine

#6. Your life can be different, Young Ju. Study and be strong. In America, women have choices.

An Na

#7. I love poetry, be it in music or be it in Andrei Tarkovsky, Francesca Woodman or anyone else, I just love poetry.

Graciela Iturbide

#8. Because love has been so perverted, it has in many cases come to involve a measure of hatred.

Germaine Greer

#9. Extemporaneous speaking should be practiced and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other respects, people are slow to bring him business if he cannot make a speech.

Abraham Lincoln

#10. I cannot write a speech. The pen is an extinguisher upon my mind and a torture to my nerves. I am the most habitual extemporaneous speaker that I have ever known.

Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II

#11. We tend to think that it's up to others to respect our needs and fill them for us. But that doesn't ever work, and for the following reason:
If you have a hard time knowing what it is you really need, then how on earth can you logically expect someone else to know?

Amanda Butterworth

#12. The darling mispronunciations of childhood! - dear me, there's no music that can touch it; and how one grieves when it wastes away and dissolves into correctness, knowing it will never visit his bereaved ear again.

Mark Twain

#13. We're allowed to go on living happy, healthy lives because tens of thousands of animals like this chimp sacrifice their lives. But all people do is kill and hate and do whatever they please. I guess they forgot that nature is what keeps us all alive.

M..

#14. had given an oath and honor binds us to paths we might not choose.

Bernard Cornwell

#15. Our concern with truth is simply an echo of our concern with God .

John Piper

#16. Love believes all things and yet is never deceived.

Soren Kierkegaard

#17. The hopeful young author had no doubt that books might change the world.

Joyce Carol Oates