Speakers Quotes

The unprepared speaker has a right to be afraid.

The speaker must choose a comprehensible expression so that speaker and hearer can understand one another.

Accustom yourself not to be disregarding of what someone else has to say: as far as possible enter into the mind of the speaker.

I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

it makes a great difference to a speaker whether he has something to say, or has to say something.

I love good, loud speakers.

A talk is a voyage.
It must be charted.
The speaker who starts nowhere,
usually gets there.

I never aspired to be Speaker simply so I could say, 'I am the Speaker of the House of Commons,' and tell my children that.

The best speakers are the ones who have put 10,000 hours into listening.

It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Most people have to talk so they won't hear.

Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

Anytime students shout down a speaker who says something different, this is not good.

Great speakers are not born,
they're trained.

I am not a public speaker and never will be.

We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

What bores the listener bores the speaker too.

Be ever on your guard what you say of anybody and to whom.

if there's one thing consistent about language it is that it is constantly changing. The only languages that do not change are those whose speakers are dead.

I'm a motivational speaker.

I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

All the English speakers, or almost all, have difficulties with the gender of words.

Our public men are speaking every day on something, but they ain't saying anything.

...the problem with words is that once spoken, they cannot find their way back to the speaker alone.

Sorrow spoken lends a little courage to the speaker.

An actor is an expert at being someone else. A speaker is an expert at being themselves.

I built all the speaker cabinets myself.

He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

I didn't say the things I said.

A career public speaker is not what I'm called to be. I'm called to be a critic.

A good speaker does not stutter.

I'm a horrible public speaker.

I never wanted to be a public speaker.

Just recognize that you are not going to become a comfortable public speaker overnight. It can take a long time.

I used to go to all the environmental conferences when I wasn't an invited speaker. I was just somebody in the back taking a lot of notes. It was when I was least visible that I came up with the most cool stuff. Now, because I don't get to be Clark Kent, I feel like my learning curve is slowing way down. I'm always afraid the conversation will move on and I'll be up at the front of the room saying last year's speech.

The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.

Andy Andrews is the best speaker I have ever seen.

I'd rather go with someone who wasn't a great speaker, but was a great chef, rather than someone who was a great performer, but maybe not a great cook.

The present indicative asserts something which is occuring while the speaker is making the statement.

I'm the queen of outside speakers.

The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.

Better never begin than never make an end.

The choosing among words is made by every user of the language, and not exclusively by professional speakers and writers.

Order and disorder', said the speaker, 'they each have their beauty.

He was the keynote speaker for our better angels.

I escaped from slavery and became a leading abolitionist and speaker.

Lincoln was not a good impromptu speaker; he was at his best when he could read from a carefully prepared manuscript, though maybe a teleprompter could have helped that!

Listening is harvesting what is in the speaker's mind.

I was not called to be a preacher. I am a speaker who is a Christian. I'm not a Christian speaker.

Lincoln was the greatest speaker and he was ridiculed for how he looked, you know?