#speaker

Most speakers speak ten minutes too long. ↗

— James Humes

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If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation? ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#eloquent #horrid #kind #more #object

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident. ↗

— Dale Carnegie

#deserves #only #prepared #speaker

A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail... Fluency, grace, logical order, and the like, are merely the decorative surface of oratory. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

#conviction #decorative #everything #fluency #forcible

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

— Kevin Costner

#how #know #lincoln #looked #ridiculed

The sheer magnitude of Speaker Pelosi's spending spree is mind boggling. Most of us do not use the number 1,000,000,000,000 in our daily lives, so it is difficult to attach tangible value to the figure. ↗

— Geoff Davis

#daily #daily lives #difficult #figure #lives

One of the terrific aspects of MIT in those days was the enormous variety of experimental work that either took place there or was talked about in seminars by outside speakers aggressively recruited by the faculty. ↗

— Robert B. Laughlin

#aggressively #aspects #days #either #enormous

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

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

#because #better #boring #drooping #dry

Cobb would have to play center field on my all time team. But where would that put Speaker? In left. If I had them both, I would certainly play them that way. ↗

— John McGraw

#center #certainly #cobb #field #had