#speech

I was giving a speech one time, and the woman who introduced me said, 'Well, she used to be J. D. Salinger's girlfriend. I thought, 'God, is that all I've been?' I didn't want to be reduced to that. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#girlfriend #giving #god #i #introduced

But please know, whether you believe campaign contributions are speech or property, that I learned to love very dearly the right of free expression when I lived without that freedom for a while a long time ago. ↗

— John McCain

#believe #campaign #campaign contributions #contributions #dearly

I want to know what they look like, their height, and colouring, physique and speech pattens. ↗

— Colleen McCullough

#i #know #like #look #physique

Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other's speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#by the time #candidates #day #each #election

Whether it has been supporting Corby's new free school, or fighting for the truth on the Cube overspend and land development deals, or striving to protect the East Northamptonshire countryside, in my work as the local MP I have always been struck, as I said in my maiden speech, by the pride people have in our area. ↗

— Louise Mensch

#area #been #countryside #cube #deals

Condoleezza Rice, the national security adviser, is right there... she's in town because her father was at Johnson Smith College... and she was delivering a speech there. ↗

— Al Michaels

#because #college #condoleezza #condoleezza rice #delivering

For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of adding a vocal sound (speech) to the hammering of the first tribal music. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

#born #consider #first #hammering #i

Leon Theremin's original designs are elegant, ingenious and effective. As electronics goes, the theremin is very simple. But there are so many subtleties hidden in the details of the design. It's like a great sonnet, or a painting, or a speech, that is perfectly done on more than one level. ↗

— Robert Moog

#designs #details #done #effective #electronics

One of the most difficult speeches to prepare is an address to a graduation class, which is why I don't often do them. ↗

— Jerry Moran

#class #difficult #graduation #i #most

I don't like giving speeches - I enjoy sitting on my rump. ↗

— Karen Morley

#giving #i #like #rump #sitting