#speaking

Genuine good taste consists in saying much in few words, in choosing among our thoughts, in having order and arrangement in what we say, and in speaking with composure. ↗

— Francois Fenelon

#arrangement #choosing #composure #consists #few

Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#dying #education #everything #learn #life

At least for me personally, I've always tried to do a really good job every day, with each interview, and treat each interview seriously, and make the person I'm speaking with feel comfortable, hopefully make it an ideal experience. ↗

— Katie Couric

#comfortable #day #each #every #every day

I believe that my art gets across the point that I'm in this morality theater trying to help the underdog, and I'm speaking socially here, showing concern and making psychological and philosophical statements for the underdog. ↗

— Jeff Koons

#art #believe #concern #gets #help

You've got to guard against speaking more clearly than you think. ↗

— Howard H. Baker, Jr.

#clearly #got #guard #more #speaking

Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something's wrong. He's not right in the brain. ↗

— Dalai Lama

#being #brain #generally #human #human being

I keep forgetting I'm speaking in an American accent sometimes. The dangerous thing is that you end up forgetting what your real accent is after a while! It's really strange; I've never done a job in an American accent before. ↗

— Robert Pattinson

#after #american #american accent #before #dangerous

I used my mother's radio as a PA system. I'd take the telephone, the speaking part, and take those two leads off and lead them into the radio and the sound would come out of the speaker. ↗

— Les Paul

#i #into #lead #leads #mother

I had a bad experience doing public speaking at school. I had to talk about a pen for five minutes and it was really hard work. I couldn't wait to get off the stage. ↗

— Karl Pilkington

#bad #doing #experience #five #get

We have a government that, generally speaking, does not respond to the people. ↗

— Christopher Reeve

#generally #government #people #respond #speaking