Speakers Quotes - Page 15

• A thought is truly sought only if it has got, in latent or potent form, the strength of 'WE' which sounds as 'V' that stands for 'VICTORY', and so it reflects the power of a true leader who as writer or speaker involves everyone alike at the same level.

  Anuj

  Leader, Victory, Sound

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• I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

  Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau

  Unsaid, Knows

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• He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

  Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel

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• The speaker does not feel the grammatical rules he is said to apply in composing sentences, and men spoke grammatically for thousands of years before anyone knew there were rules.

  B. F. Skinner

  Men, Years, Doe

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• Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.

  Oscar Wilde

  Talking, Two, People

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• I love a finished speaker, I really, truly do I don't mean one who's polished, I just mean one who's through.

  Richard Armour

  Mean, Polished, Finished

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• Indeed a good quotation hardly ever comes amiss. It is a pleasing break in the thread of a speech or writing, allowing the speaker or writer to retire for an instant while another and greater makes himself heard. And this calling-up of the deathless dead implies also a community of mind with them, which the reader will not grudge the author lest he should seem to deny it to himself.

  William Francis Henry King

  Writing, Community, Mind

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• The attribution of a speaker is in fact a part of the quotation. Some statements simply are better if a certain famous person said them.

  Gary Saul Morson

  Facts, Said, Certain

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• Nevertheless we have this curious spectacle: daily the trained parrot in the pulpit gravely delivers himself of these ironies, which he has acquired at second-hand and adopted without examination, to a trained congregation which accepts them without examination, and neither the speaker nor the hearer laughs at himself. It does seem as if we ought to be humble when we are at a bench-show, and not put on airs of intellectual superiority there.

  Mark Twain

  Humble, Air, Hands

  Mark Twain, John S. Tuckey (1972). “Mark Twain's Fables of Man”, p.115, Univ of California Press

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• Free speech isn't dead in Germany and Italy, merely the speakers.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Humorous, Italian

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• This speaker reminds me of my childhood in Budapest. There were gypsy magicians who came to town to entertain us children. But as I recollect, there was one important difference: the gypsy only seemed to violate the laws of nature, he never really violated them!

  Theodore von Karman

  Children, Science, Law

  Theodore Von Kármán (1965). “Theodore Von Kármán, 1881-1963: In Memoriam”

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• I think my role is as a writer, especially, and then also as a speaker, an organizer, and an entre- preneur of social change. My role isn't to make choices for people-each individual or group needs to do that on their own. But as a writer and a speaker, you can describe possibilities that perhaps haven't been visible before, and aren't in other public dialogues or in the rest of the media. So I suppose I think of myself mainly as an organizer and as someone who describes possibilities.

  Gloria Steinem

  Thinking, Media, People

  Interview with Maria Shriver, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 11, 2011.

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• We have an excellent list of speakers, but the spark will be provided by the crowd to turn talk into action. The Iraq occupation and the government's bumbling effort in New Orleans, has people wanting to act.

  Ed Garvey

  New Orleans, Government, Iraq

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• 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.

  John Bercow

  Children, House, My Children

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• When I give talks like the one I'm going to give at the Changing Advertising Summit, one of the points I often make to the audience is that I'm not one of those speakers who stands in front of the audience and pontificates - everything I talk about I'm actually doing myself. I'm living it.

  Cindy Gallop

  Giving, Advertising, Summit

  "Cindy Gallop: it's time to rethink the advertising business" by Chris Smith, www.theguardian.com. September 26, 2012.

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• To preach the Gospel requires that the preacher should believe that he is sent to those whom he is addressing at the moment, because God has among them those whom He is at the moment calling; it requires that the speaker should expect a response.

  Roland Allen

  Believe, Calling, Moments

  Roland Allen (2016). “Missionary Methods: St. Paul's or Ours?”, p.71, Gideon House Books

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• Above all, translators must be native speakers. It’s not because they speak the language better – I understand that sometimes a foreigner can learn a language better than native speakers. It has more to do with intimate knowledge of the society for which the book is being translated.

  Sergei Lukyanenko

  Book, Language, Sometimes

  "Interview with a Vampire Writer". Interview with Tatyana Shenkova, www.rbth.com. September 5, 2012.

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• In an ideal world, one populated by vegetarians and Esperanto speakers, derivatives would be used for one thing only: reducing levels of risk. The list of individual traders who have lost more than a billion dollars at a time betting on derivatives is not short.

  John Lanchester

  Business, Risk, Lists

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• I'm a motivational speaker.

  Young Jeezy

  Motivational Speakers

  "Jeezy: The Inspiration" by Tom Breihan, pitchfork.com. December 11, 2006.

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• And some poets are far better read off the page because they're very bad speakers. I'm thinking of one in particular whom I won't name, a good poet, and he reads in such a dry, boring way, your eyes start drooping.

  Norman MacCaig

  Eye, Thinking, Names

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• I'm busier than a busy person. People aren't scared to play this raucous, harsh music over radio speakers, so I think it's the perfect time to get in with some real serious, heavy bands.

  Jason Newsted

  Real, Thinking, Play

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• I am committed to working with Speaker Hastert and the other members of the Illinois congressional delegation to do all that I can to ensure that Illinois' funding needs are adequately met.

  Bill Lipinski

  Illinois, Needs, Mets

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• I am not a public speaker and never will be.

  Heath Ledger

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

  Bernard Pivot

  Gender, Difficulty

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• Madam Speaker, I have spent more than half my life as a member of the Resources Committee. In that time I have supported numerous wilderness designations. In fact, I cannot recall ever opposing a wilderness bill.

  Nick Rahall

  Half, Bills, Facts

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