Speakers Quotes - Page 5

• Beware that the one who reads is the same as the book, the same as what is read, the same as the speaker and the same as what is spoken without being the word.

  Mohammed Dib

  Reading, Book, Books And Reading

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• A man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man. The instructed man is ashamed to pronounce in an orphic manner what everybody knows, and because he is silent people think he is making fun of them. They like a man who expresses their own superficial thoughts in a manner that appears to be profound. This enables them to feel that they are themselves profound.

  Van Wyck Brooks

  Fun, Successful, Men

  Van Wyck Brooks (1958). “From a writer's notebook”

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• 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

  Sound, Hours, Ends

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• The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.

  William Howard Taft

  Too Much, Trouble

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• A good listener truly wants to know the speaker.

  John Powell

  Want, Nonviolent Communication, Good Listener

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• The vitality of language lies in its ability to limn the actual, imagined and possible lives of its speakers, readers, writers.

  Toni Morrison

  Lying, Vitality, Language

  Nobel Prize for Literature Lecture, delivered 7 December 1993

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• Vinyl, CDs or laptops, it doesn't matter - you should use whatever
  you're comfortable with. If you're on the dancefloor and there's
  good music coming out of the speakers, that should be enough. If
  you're standing there storing your chin going: 'This would sound
  better if it was on vinyl', yes it might do, but at the end of the
  day, people want to go to a party.

  John Digweed

  Party, Cds, People

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• Typographical design should perform optically what the speaker creates through voice and gesture of his thoughts.

  El Lissitzky

  Voice, Design, Gestures

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• Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.

  Anthony Trollope

  Speech, Easy, Young

  Anthony Trollope (2016). “The Duke's Children: Trollope's Works”, p.398, 谷月社

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• When the Grateful Dead needed a quality sound system to deliver our sonic payload, I learned electronics and speaker design.

  Mickey Hart

  Grateful, Design, Quality

  "There’s a Fire on the Mountain" by Mickey Hart, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 22, 2011.

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• I'm a horrible public speaker.

  Bill Condon

  Horrible

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• With the computer and programming languages, mathematics has newly-acquired tools, and its notation should be reviewed in the light of them. The computer may, in effect, be used as a patient, precise, and knowledgeable "native speaker" of mathematical notation.

  Kenneth E. Iverson

  Light, Tools, May

  "Math for the Layman" by Kenneth E. Iverson, Ch. 10, §D, www.cs.trinity.edu. 1999.

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• It struck me that Steve Jobs, known to be such a brilliant speaker, had a very difficult time explaining things when he was younger. He was describing technology that didn't exist. He had MIT engineers, and he was trying to tell them what he wanted; but there were no terms for what he wanted yet. I think a lot of his early frustration was trying to quickly get his vision to the finish line.

  Joshua Michael Stern

  Jobs, Frustration, Technology

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• Perpetual aiming at wit is a very bad part of conversation. It is done to support a character: it generally fails; it is a sort of insult on the company, and a restraint upon the speaker.

  Jonathan Swift

  Character, Support, Done

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• A good saying often runs the risk of being thrown away when quoted as the speaker's own.
  [Fr., C'est souvent hasarder un bon mot et vouloir le perdre que de le donner pour sien.]

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Running, Risk, Thrown

  "Characters", II, 1688.

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• A dull speaker, like a plain woman, is credited with all the virtues, for we charitably suppose that a surface so unattractive must be compensated by interior blessings.

  A. P. Herbert

  Blessing, Unattractive, Dull

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• Perhaps the habit which distinguishes civilized people from others is that of discussion, exchange of opinion and ideas, the ability to differ without quarrelling, to say what you have to say civilly and then to listen civilly to another speaker.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Ideas, People, Opinion

  Katherine Anne Porter, Isabel Bayley (1994). “Letters of Katherine Anne Porter”, p.205, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• The office of Speaker is almost as ancient as Parliament itself. It emerged in the Middle Ages when the Commons - the ordinary people - of England needed a spokesman in their dealings with the King, someone who would voice their grievances and present their petitions. This was by no means a safe or easy thing to do at that time, and potential spokesman generally had to be pressured into accepting the responsibility.

  John Allen Fraser

  Kings, Mean, Responsibility

  John Allen Fraser (1993). “The House of Commons at Work”, Montréal : Éditions de la Chenelière

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• Whether youre president or speaker, if youre wrong, we need to stand up and point it out. Thats what Martin Luther King had talked about: being judged by the content of our character and not the color of our skin. So some of us pounded away on some of the ridiculous policies of Pelosi - and lo and behold, over time, the public began to see.

  Louie Gohmert

  Kings, Character, Color

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• The great improvement of the radio over the telephone is that it may be turned off without offending the speaker.

  Richard Armour

  Offending, May, Radio

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• The American people are very, very ready for a woman president. They're far ahead of the politicians. I always thought it would be much easier to elect a woman president of the United States than Speaker of the House, because the people are far ahead, as I say, of the electeds, on the subject of a woman being president.

  Nancy Pelosi

  People, House, President

  "What Will It Take to Make A Woman President?: Conversations About Women, Leadership and Power". Book by Marianne Schnall, www.salon.com. November 5, 2013.

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• When the vain speaker has sat down, and the people say 'what a good speech,' it still takes an ounce to balance an ounce.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, People, Balance

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1910). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson: with annotations”

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• To exclude from positions of trust and command all those below the age of 44 would have kept Jefferson from writing the Declaration of Independence, Washington from commanding the Continental Army, Madison from fathering the Constitution, Hamilton from serving as secretary of the treasury, Clay from being elected speaker of the House and Christopher Columbus from discovering America.

  John F. Kennedy

  Writing, Army, America

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• Mr. Speaker, in 1848, Karl Marx said, a progressive income tax is needed to transfer wealth and power to the state. Thus, Marx's Communist Manifesto had as its major economic tenet a progressive income tax. Think about it, 1848 Karl Marx, Communism.... I say it is time to replace the progressive income tax with a national retail sales tax, and it is time to abolish the IRS, my colleagues. I yield back all the rules, regulations, fear, and intimidation of our current system.

  James Traficant

  Thinking, America, Yield

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• Mr. Speaker, we have reached a point in history where some have forgotten that it is the family, not the government, that is the fundamental building block of our society.

  Jim Ryun

  Block, Government, Umpires

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