Quotes of: Public-speaking Keyword

I've been criticized because I've had the temerity to speak out and done a couple of interviews since I left office. I don't find anything surprising about that.

Dick Cheney

I speak for a lot of church groups, youth groups, schools, colleges and do personal appearances. I've done conventions and trade shows. A lot of different little hats.

Donna Douglas

Why do I speak forth the unpopular? I have a sweet tooth but not when it comes back up.

Donna Lynn Hope

And my approach has always been to stand up and speak out on behalf of the economic rights of people.

Dennis Kucinich

This is the difficulty about talking about it without sounding big-headed, but you cannot speak of New Zealand now without my involvement in what it has become.

David Lange

When people lack true culture or are devoid of innovative ideas, they speak about wine, various brands of alcoholic beverages, or the quality of soap.

Dimitris Mita

If you have an argument with someone and you sulk, sometimes you don't want to speak to them. But it is important to keep your friends close to you and do the right things.

Jermain Defoe

Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

John Dewey

Being an author is always like being a well-run dictatorship - it's all one person speaking.

Junot Diaz

The sky is a girl who speaks in thunder, moves in lightning, hides her sorrow with clouds, cries in raindrops,and apologises with rainbows.

Jenim Dibie

Generally speaking, rhyme is the marker for the end of a line. The first rhyme-word is like a challenge thrown down, which the poem itself has to respond to.

James Fenton

Getting the support of Syria is the moral equivalent of winning the Klan's endorsement - it might be useful but it doesn't necessarily speak well of you.

Jonah Goldberg

I think it's appropriate in America for anyone to speak out and say what their reaction is to the president's State of the Union speech.

Jim Jordan

A man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself - like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.

Jean Kerr

I always identified myself as non-Swedish. I was never discriminated against, because I looked Swedish and speak without an accent. But I had an outsider's perspective.

Joel Kinnaman

I would never speak about specifics in my own relationships because I think it's tacky.

Jennifer Lopez

Don't speak evil of someone if you don't know for certain, and if you do know ask yourself, why am I telling it?

Johann Kaspar Lavater

He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Foreign languages are another favourite topic, and as these men are bilingual they have a fair notion of what it means to speak and think in many different idioms.

John Millington Synge

If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

John Updike

Put a bridle on thy tongue; set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy thy peace... on much speaking cometh repentance, but in silence is safety.

William Drummond