Short Speech Quotes

#1. Short of a small range of physical acts-a fight, murder, lovemaking-dialogue is the most vigorous and visible inter-action of which characters in a novel are capable. Speech is what characters do to each other.

Elizabeth Bowen

#2. I'm going to make a long speech because I've not had the time to prepare a short one.

Winston Churchill

#3. The old expression goes, a good speech is like a woman's skirt: short enough to hold your attention, long enough to cover the subject.

Jonathan Tropper

#4. No-one can say just how long a message should be, but you rarely hear complaints about a speech being too short. The amateur worries about what he is going to put into his speech. The expert worries about what he should take out. An artisitic performance is concentrated, has a central focus.

Edgar Dale

#5. Silence is a figure of speech, unanswerable, short, cold, but terribly severe.

Theodore Parker

#6. I was a good student, but a speech impediment was causing problems. One of my teachers decided that I couldn't pronounce certain words at all. She thought that if I wrote something, I would use words I could pronounce. I began writing little poems. I began to write short stories, too.

Walter Dean Myers

#7. A good speech should be a like a woman's skirt: long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest. - WINSTON CHURCHILL

Bill McGowan

#8. We've learned a bunch of things; when you send a message to people, keep those messages short. Imagine walking up to a girl in a bar and going into a four-minute speech about how great you are. No one wants to hear that.

Sam Yagan

#9. The wellspring for the passion that drove public speech and action in behalf of the environment was in large part religious and ethical. Environmentalism, in short, had become one version of nature religion in the lingering shadow of American transcendentalism.

Catherine L. Albanese

#10. I have reached the conclusion, a bit late perhaps, that speeches should be short.

Fidel Castro

#11. To respect the opinions of those who stand against you is nothing short of courageous.

Raif Badawi

#12. In short, individual freedom of speech leads to a stronger society. But knowing that principle is not enough. You have to know how to put it to use on the Net.

Mike Godwin

#13. Not telling is just as interesting as telling I have found. Why speech, that short verbal journey from inside to outside can be excrutiating under certain circumstances is fascinating.

Siri Hustvedt

#14. No one ever complains about a speech being too short!

Ira Hayes

#15. No audience ever complained about a presentation or speech being too short

Stephen Keague

#16. It's so easy to use tired, shopworn figures of speech. I love using long, fancy words but have learned - mostly from writing my biography of Winston Churchill - that short, strong words work better. I am ever-vigilant against the passive and against jargon, both of which are so insidious.

Gretchen Rubin

#17. How much time do I get in exchange for that rose?"
For the rose, a short engagement. For the speech, you get a lifetime."
I can live with that," he said, and kissed her.

Laura Lee Guhrke

#18. All men are really most attracted by the beauty of plain speech, and they even write in a florid style in imitation of this. Theyprefer to be misunderstood rather than to come short of its exuberance.

Henry David Thoreau

#19. It is a truth forever, that where the speech of man stops short there Music's reign begins.

Richard Wagner

#20. Brahman is beyond mind and speech, beyond concentration and meditation, beyond the knower, the known and knowledge, beyond even the conception of the real and unreal. In short, It is beyond all relativity.

Ramakrishna

#21. Among the many queer things about the American economy is this: A writer can get more money for a bungling speech at a bankrupt college than he can get for a short-story masterpiece. What's more, he can sell the speech over and over again, and no one complains.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#22. Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use short and positive speech.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#23. A good speech is like a miniskirt
long enough to over all the vital parts, short enough to entice and captivate listeners.

Naa Shalman

#24. I realized that the legal system was corrupt when I went to court and the judge imposed a very short time limit on my evidence submission before removing my legal rights to free speech.

Steven Magee

#25. What is the short meaning of the long speech?

Friedrich Schiller

#26. A good speech should be like a woman's skirt; long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest.

Winston S. Churchill

#27. Writing for me is a dragnet that carries everything away with it: expressions and figures of speech, postures, feelings, thoughts, troubles. In short, the lives of others.

Elena Ferrante

#28. I love eulogies. They are the most moving kind of speech because they attempt to pluck meaning from the fog, and on short order, when the emotions are still ragged and raw and susceptible to leaps.

Peggy Noonan