Quotes of: Speaker Keyword

Being a comfortable public speaker, which involves easily being able to go off-script, strongly signals competence.

Amy Cuddy

I'm tough, and you know what? New Yorkers deserve that. They work head, they fight it out, they slug it out. And they deserve a mayor or a speaker who's going to do the same.

Christine Quinn

One of the terrific aspects of MIT in those days was the enormous variety of experimental work that either took place there or was talked about in seminars by outside speakers aggressively recruited by the faculty.

Robert B. Laughlin

The attitude of independence toward a constructed language which all national speakers must adopt is really a great advantage, because it tends to make man see himself as the master of language instead of its obedient servant.

Edward Sapir

Never take another human being to the third life, because we don't know how to go.

Speaker for the Dead

I carry the seeds of death within me and plant them wherever I linger long enough to love.

Speaker for the Dead

He loved her, as you can only love someone who is an echo of yourself at your time of deepest sorrow.

Speaker for the Dead

I think we are wise, we English speakers, to savor accents. They teach us things about our own tongue.

Merrick

Confidence can be learned - but not from a book. Confidence comes from from living.

More Than Words Can Say: The Making of Inspired Speakers

English is not merely a language anymore; it has become a way of life for millions of non-native English speakers around the world.

LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS

I want you to write yourself into history because no matter what history books say, even you are a part of it.

The Shadow Speaker

If I go away, I take a little picture of my son. It's in a frame with a speaker, and he recorded a birthday message for me when he was nine or 10. I can't listen to it without filling up.

Lesley Manville

I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them.

H. L. Mencken

The role at the DCCC as well as the role of chief deputy whip - I wouldn't be where I am in those spots if it were not for the speaker's approval.

Joseph Crowley

Presidents and speakers for over 100 years had tried to pass affordable care for all Americans. It was challenged over and over. The Supreme Court declared it constitutional.

Nancy Pelosi

Look at almost any passage, and you'll find that a paragraph has five or six metaphors in it. It's not that the speaker is trying to be poetic, it's just that that's the way language works.

Steven Pinker

The studio part, to me, can be pretty laborious. You're inside for hours on end and can be pretty frustrating to get the sound you hear in your head to come out of those speakers.

Mike Love

Mr. Speaker, I once again find myself compelled to vote against the annual budget resolution for a very simple reason: it makes government bigger.

Ron Paul

The key for any speaker is to establish his own point of view for the audience, so they can see the game through his eyes.

Ronald Reagan

I'd make a better U.S. president than George W. Bush. Bush is an idiot. I'm a better public speaker than him. It makes you wonder about the voters.

Robbie Williams

President Clinton is going to embrace President Obama, as he should. They are working together. They're different kinds of people. Obama is cool, Clinton is a schmoozer. Both are great speakers. It's a great merging of the party.

Bill Richardson