Speakers Quotes - Page 21

• No writer or speaker who ignores the roots of Latin derivatives is secure from egregious error.

  Stuart Sherman

  Latin, Errors, Roots

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• The whole body reacts to color. If you were to walk into an all-neon-pink room, it would be difficult not to react. I think it is a unified, human thing to feel color with everything. It is like standing next to a bass speaker plugged into your eyeballs.

  Jim Drain

  Thinking, Color, Would Be

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• However well you know the French language you've learnt it the wrong way, not as a native speaker would. That's my problem as well.

  Christian Karlson Stead

  Language, Problem, Native

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today.

  Jack Canfield

  Inspirational, Mother, Kings

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• For I must not measure the speech of a statesman to his people by the impression which it leaves in a university professor, but by the effect it exerts on the people. And this alone gives the standard for the speaker's genius.

  Adolf Hitler

  University Professors, Media, People

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• One of the speakers asked how many women had been harassed or abused sexually in their life? There were thousands of women in the audience, and almost every one of them raised her hand.

  Cheryl James

  Hands, Raised, Sexually

  "New Again: Salt-N-Pepa". Interview with Adrian Rapazzini and Mary Wilson, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 30, 2014.

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• A speech should not just be a sharing of information, but a sharing of yourself.

  Ralph Archbold

  Oratory, Speech, Information

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• Let your invocation be the all-embracing Name, which is Allah, Allah, Allah, or if you so wish, Huwa, Huwa, Huwa; and do not violate this remembrance. Be careful lest your tongue pronounce it while other-than-He is in your heart. Let your heart be the one who utters, and your ear the one who is attentive to this invocation until the 'speaker' emanates from your Self (sirr). When you feel the emergence of the Speaker within you through the invocation, do not abandon the spiritual condition wherein you find yourself.

  Ibn Ata Allah

  Spiritual, Heart, Names

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• When you want to hear a philosopher, do not say, 'You say nothing to me'; only show yourself worthy or fit to hear, and then you will see how you will move the speaker.

  Epictetus

  Moving, Want, Philosopher

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• And in cases where profound conviction has been wrought, the eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief. It agitates and tears him, and perhaps almost bereaves him of the power of articulation.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Men, Drunk

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2432, Delphi Classics

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• Don't have conversations taking place in empty space. Weave in background details of where the action (dialogue is a form of "action") is taking place. Don't have invisible people talking, either. Let the reader see them as they speak - their facial expressions and gestures. And by all means "cue" the speeches to the speakers.

  Lee Wyndham

  Writing, Mean, Space

  Lee Wyndham (1972). “Writing for children and teen-agers”, Writer's Digest Books

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• The ballpark is the star. In the age of Tris Speaker and Babe Ruth, the era of Jimmie Foxx and Ted Williams, through the empty-seats epoch of Don Buddin and Willie Tasby and unto the decades of Carl Yastrzemski and Jim Rice, the ballpark is the star. A crazy-quilt violation of city planning principles, an irregular pile of architecture, a menace to marketing consultants, Fenway Park works. It works as a symbol of New England's pride, as a repository of evergreen hopes, as a tabernacle of lost innocence. It works as a place to watch baseball.

  Martin Nolan

  Baseball, Stars, Quilts

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• In my experience when a friend unloaded about a boyfriend or spouse, the listener soaked up the complaint and remembered it long after the speaker had forgiven the offense.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Long, Spouse, Complaints

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• After the November elections gave Republicans control of the Senate, voters made clear they wanted change. We were hopeful our leaders got the voters' message. However, after our speaker forced through the (spending bill) by passing it with Democratic votes and without time to read it, it seemed clear that we needed new leadership.

  Louie Gohmert

  Change, Leadership, Hopeful

  "Texas Rep. Gohmert to challenge Boehner for House speaker post". www.foxnews.com. January 4, 2015.

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• Sadly, today there are only a few remaining speakers of kakadu or gagadju. The work, then, is concerned with my feelings about this place, its landscape, its change of seasons, its dry season and its wet, its cycle of life and death the melodic material in Kakadu, as in much of my recent music, was suggested by the contours and rhythms of Aboriginal chant.

  Peter Sculthorpe

  Cycle Of Life, Life And Death, Feelings

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• We need to review the process for the election of Speaker. We've got to reform Question Time, which is really a waste of time. There are so many things that we need to do to reform our Parliament and I think it's bigger than that. It's all about the sort of leadership that people are getting at the moment. They're fed up with this sorta day-to-day bickering, not putting the national interest ahead of these narrow partisan interests.

  Richard Di Natale

  Thinking, People, Waste

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• Onstage I like to play with a an 18-inch speaker, which very few bass players do. I need that fat, underneath sound, which I've always had. It suits me admirably to do it like that, and I can imitate that sound by plugging directly into the board in the studio.

  Bill Wyman

  Player, Sound, Boards

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• Language does not stand still. Surprisingly, despite this knowledge, most speakers are fearful of change.

  Peter Farb

  Change, Doe, Language

  PETER FARB (1973). “WORD PLAY WHAT HAPPENS WHEN PEOPLE TALK”

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• Gestures and facial expressions do indeed communicate, as anyone can prove by turning off the sound on a television set and asking watchers to characterize the speakers from the picture alone.

  Peter Farb

  Communication, Expression, Gestures

  Peter Farb (2015). “Word Play: What Happens When People Talk”, p.236, Vintage

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• I lost my mother early, I've sometimes felt I haven't had anyone to show me the way. When I look to the future there's only a blank. "I can't see past the point where I am," the speaker says at one point - "like you, I'm just passing through." If my mother were still alive I imagine I'd have a clearer sense of what a meaningful, vital life might look like 25 years down the line.

  Deborah Landau

  Meaningful, Mother, Past

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• George Bernard Shaw of England stopped over just long enough to make one speech in Bombay, India, started a war and 100 Indians killed each other. That's what I call good speech-making. The only enthusiasm any of our speakers can rouse is a demand to kill the speaker.

  Will Rogers

  Inspirational, War, Long

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• The vulgar look upon a man, who is reckoned a fine speaker, as a phenomenon, a supernatural being, and endowed with some peculiargift of Heaven; they stare at him, if he walks in the park, and cry, that is he. You will, I am sure, view him in a juster light, and nulla formidine. You will consider him only as a man of good sense, who adorns common thoughts with the graces of elocution, and the elegancy of style. The miracle will then cease.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Men, Supernatural Beings, Light

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• I like Paul Ryan, and to a certain extent, I feel bad for him. But this is a moment of moral choice. And if he says that Hillary Clinton is worse than a openly racist, Muslim-hating misogynist who wants to build a wall to exclude Mexicans, who thinks that a judge, an American judge because of his Mexican lineage cannot be fair to him, if you`re saying that Hillary Clinton is worse than all that, then I just think that that just is ridiculous, it`s absurd, and it really starts to damage the speaker`s credibility.

  Keith Ellison

  Wall, Thinking, Judging

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• When I wrote my first book, Crisis Management: Planning for the Inevitable, it was endorsed by the American Management Association, and consequently was read by America's top corporate leaders, and overnight put me in high demand as a consultant and as a speaker. Also, that book forever changed the way businesses look at and deal with crises by giving a tangible feel to an otherwise intangible subject.

  Steven Fink

  Book, Giving, Leader

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I'm a Republican, but I find Nancy Pelosi very attractive. She hasn't done a single thing as congressman or Speaker of the House that has turned me on, but I find her quite okay.

  Christopher Buckley

  House, Done, Republican

  Source: www.elle.com

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