Quotes of: Public-speaking Keyword

When I went to Los Angeles right after high school, I got some acting jobs, and I never, ever wanted to be an actress! Public speaking and acting make me want to vomit. But I have never been nervous singing. When it comes to public speaking, I stumbl...

Kelly Clarkson

To most of the general public, language comes down less to wonder than a rather censorious bifurcated sentiment – namely, that the vast majority of the world's humans either speak and something primitive or speak something badly.

You Are What You Speak: Grammar Grouches, Language Laws, and the Politics of Identity

I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of public speaking and of approaching young women in public.

Albert Ellis

It never hurts a fool to appear before an audience, for his capacity is not a capacity for feeling.

The Art of Public Speaking

My greatest fear is speaking in public.

Jennifer Love Hewitt

If I have to speak in public, I am terrified.

Kirk Douglas

Secularism is categorically not saying that the religious may not speak out publicly or have a say in public life. It is about saying that religion alone should not confer a privileged say in public life, or greater influence on it. It really is as s...

Richard Dawkins

Artists speak the truth to the public without fear of retribution or damage to their careers.

Ron Silver

I said the kidnapping is a crime. I have the right to speak about the crime done against me. They didn't like me to speak about this crime. So I decided to reveal it to the public.

Mordechai Vanunu

When modern sociologists talk of the necessity of accommodating one's self to the trend of the time, they forget that the trend of the time at its best consists entirely of people who will not accommodate themselves to anything. At its worst it consi...

Heretics

I was always a clown. In the eighth grade I won a city speech contest by doing an Eddie Murphy routine. I'm no good at public speaking, but if I can assume a role and speak as that person, then I'm fine. When I had to give a book report, I always did...

Jason Wiles

If the word gets out, if the perception exists that by speaking to a CBS journalist you are, therefore, inevitably, immediately speaking to the police, I don't think there's any doubt but that people won't talk. And, therefore, the public won't learn...

Floyd Abrams

I don't think the public here buy this idea that women and men speak different comedic languages.

Chris O'Dowd

Never speak about private affairs for the general public to hear.

Habeeb Akande

Certainly in the modern age where everything is glossed over, when somebody speaks their mind, the majority of the public go, I'd love to have said that.

Pete Waterman

Some politicians that I've seen have been brilliant with the public. They almost speak with the skill of an actor.

Kevin Spacey

Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.

Allen Ginsberg

The first sign of greatness is when a man does not attempt to look and act great. Before you can call yourself a man at all, Kipling assures us, you must "not look too good nor talk too wise.

The Art of Public Speaking

Scientists habitually moan that the public doesn't understand them. But they complain too much: public ignorance isn't peculiar to science. It's sad if some citizens can't tell a proton from a protein. But it's equally sad if they're ignorant of thei...

Martin Rees

I think public intellectuals have a responsibility - to be self-critical on the one hand, to do serious, nuanced work rigorously executed; but to also be able to get off those perches and out of those ivory towers and speak to the real people who mak...

Michael Eric Dyson

My mum will not speak above a low whisper in public because she doesn't want to draw attention to herself.

Richard Armitage