Quotes of: Speech Keyword

We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action.

Sarojini Naidu

Consciousness surely does not depend on language. Babies, many animals, and patients robbed of speech by brain damage are not insensate robots; they have reactions like ours that indicate that someone's home.

Steven Pinker

Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.

Adam Smith

In the Reagan administration, a great speech was just the first step in a long process. In the Obama administration, it's the only step.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

Obama isn't good off the cuff, especially when challenged; he is far better with a prepared speech.

Elliott Abrams

Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.

Gaston Bachelard

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.

Peter Drucker

Happy is the man whom the Muses love: sweet speech flows from his mouth.

Hesiod

Storytelling, in print or speech, needs vital energy.

Frank Delaney

A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

Confucius

The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

Confucius

I took speech training. I took a few voice lessons in college.

Harry Dean Stanton

Speech lessons probably did more for my singing voice - they teach you breathing, resonance.

Harry Dean Stanton

The only place you see a free market is in the speeches of politicians.

Dwayne Andreas

All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.

Demosthenes

I've spent too much time giving speeches, traveling the world.

Billy Graham

The most terrifying thing in the world was having to give a speech at my girlfriend's wedding. I was physically shaking and sweating the entire time.

Lindy Booth

Adenoid Hynkel: [in the middle of a speech in which he rants in "German"] Phooey!

The Great Dictator

Lionel Logue: What are friends for? King George VI: I wouldn't know.

The King's Speech

I love English. I learned it from the speeches of Winston Churchill.

Maurice Druon

Hey, I'm not a politician. I'm a ham. I love to give speeches.

Norman Schwarzkopf