#speeches

When every high school graduate can spell the word, 'inauguration,' let's put lampshades on our heads and listen to his speeches until Obama's voice gives out. ↗

— Paula Poundstone

#gives #graduate #heads #high #high school

I don't want to spend the rest of my life giving speeches. ↗

— Colin Powell

#i #life #my life #rest #speeches

Like many of my friends and colleagues, I can't get enough of Obama news; latest polling, speeches, visits, reaction of world leaders. ↗

— Lucy Powell

#enough #friends #get #i #latest

Few speeches which have produced an electrical effect on an audience can bear the colourless photography of a printed record. ↗

— Archibald Primrose

#bear #effect #electrical #few #photography

Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches. ↗

— Will Rogers

#liberty #practice #speeches #well #work

Joshua's ministry was three years of preaching, sometimes three times a day, and although there were some high and low points, I could never remember the sermons word for word, but here's the gist of almost every sermon I ever heard Joshua give. You should be nice to people, even creeps. And if you: a) believed that Joshua was the Son of God (and) b) he had come to save you from sin (and) c) acknowledged the Holy Spirit within you (became as a little child, he would say) (and) d) didn't blaspheme the Holy Ghost (see c) then you would: e) live forever f) someplace nice g) probably heavan However, if you: h) sinned (and/or) i) were a hypocrite (and/or) j) valued things over people (and) k) didn't do a, b, c, and d, then you were: l) fucked ↗

— Christopher Moore

#speeches #humor

Democracy is not about making speeches. It is about making committees work. ↗

— Alan Bullock

#committees #democracy #making #speeches #work

You have to take a huge loss financially to do a play. You have to put aside the commercials and the speeches and the other things that put money on the table, and really save up to do it. And that's what I've done here. But it's worth it to me to be in a really good play. ↗

— Dixie Carter

#commercials #done #financially #good #here

One reason I do the live shows - and the monthly speeches at public radio stations - is to remind myself that people hear the show, that it has an audience, that it exists in the world. It's so easy to forget that. ↗

— Ira Glass

#easy #exists #forget #hear #i

In my speeches, I always condemned communism, national-socialism and fascism. ↗

— Jean-Marie Le Pen

#communism #condemned #fascism #i #i always