#speaker

I think from the very beginning with 'We Are Young,' there was never any question about where we wanted the song to go and what we wanted it to sound like. And we knew that we wanted it to be big, we wanted it to be booming over the speakers at an arena or something. ↗

— Andrew Dost

#any #arena #beginning #big #booming

The sanity of the average banquet speaker lasts about two and a half months; at the end of that time he begins to mutter to himself, and calls out in his sleep. ↗

— James Thurber

#average #banquet #begins #calls #end

I'm a horrible public speaker. ↗

— Bill Condon

#i #public #speaker

Then as the years went on and my listening became more deliberate, I would climb up on an arm of our big sofa to get my ear closer to the wireless speaker. ↗

— Seamus Heaney

#became #big #climb #closer #deliberate

Mr. Speaker, on September 11, 2001, the United States was attacked, and Britain stood with us. This was not only an attack against America, but against the civilized world; and Britain understood this. ↗

— Vito Fossella

#america #attack #attacked #britain #civilized

In all sincere speech there is power, not necessarily great power, but as much as the speaker is capable of. ↗

— George Henry Lewes

#great #great power #much #necessarily #power

The decision for me was whether to have "The Father" be a book that told a story - from the point of view of this speaker, the daughter - without, as in the earlier books, then having a section on something else and a section on something else. ↗

— Sharon Olds

#books #daughter #decision #earlier #else

The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun. ↗

— George Orwell

#bombs #cities #earth #factories #going

I sit on the Drug Policy Subcommittee of the United States Congress. I'm on the speaker's task force. This is something people would rather turn away from and not face, but in fact it is possibly the greatest threat we face. ↗

— Doug Ose

#congress #face #fact #force #greatest

Being the first woman speaker and breaking the marble ceiling is pretty important. Now it's time to move on. ↗

— Nancy Pelosi

#breaking #ceiling #first #important #marble