Speakers Quotes - Page 9

• I don't understand why people never say what they mean. It's like the immigrants who come to a country and learn the language but are completely baffled by idioms. (Seriously, how could anyone who isn't a native English speaker 'get the picture,' so to speak, and not assume it has something to do with a photo or a painting?)

  Jodi Picoult

  Country, Mean, People

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.941, Simon and Schuster

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• A speaker who is attempting to move people to thought or action must concern himself with Pathos.

  Aristotle

  Moving, People, Speech

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• When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.

  Seneca the Younger

  Philosophical, Thinking, Envy

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

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• It's really beneath the office of a member of Congress to say something that outrageous. The fact that she was once the Speaker is mind-numbing, honestly... mind-numbingly stupid.

  Trey Gowdy

  Stupid, Bad Ass, Office

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• What is our recourse, Mr. Speaker? What is our remedy?

  Trey Gowdy

  Bad Ass, Recourse, Remedy

  "Boom: Trey Gowdy Just Roasted Obama To A Crisp On The House Floor And Earned A Standing Ovation". Speech at the House of Representatives, www.westernjournalism.com. August 8, 2014.

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• I can tell you this. It is not going to be evenly constituted and when she was Speaker Pelosi, she certainly showed no interests in having an equal number of Republicans and Democrats.

  Trey Gowdy

  Badass, Bad Ass, Numbers

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• I still believe the momentum is there to accomplish comprehensive immigration reform, and I think there is a bipartisan coalition that would pass right now, a pathway to citizenship if Speaker Boehner lets it come to the floor.

  Joaquin Castro

  Believe, Thinking, Pathways

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• Being anti-war in Hollywood was an act of bravery on the order of the keynote speaker at a PLO dinner making jokes about Ariel Sharon.

  Ann Coulter

  War, Order, Bravery

  Ann Coulter (2003). “Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism”, p.317, Crown Forum

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• I get speaker's fees from time to time, but not very much.

  Mitt Romney

  Stupid, People, Fees

  "Are Attitudes Toward The Wealthy Changing?". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. January 18, 2012.

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• The middles cleave to euphemisms not just because they're an aid in avoiding facts. They like them also because they assist their social yearnings towards pomposity. This is possible because most euphemisms permit the speaker to multiply syllables, and the middle class confuses sheer numerousness with weight and value.

  Paul Fussell

  Class, Facts, Weight

  Paul Fussell (1992). “Class: A Guide Through the American Status System”, p.160, Simon and Schuster

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• Yoga exercises are excellent; the speaker does them every day, for an hour or more; but that is merely physical exercise, to keep the body healthy, and so on.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Yoga, Exercise, Healthy

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1975). “Authentic report of the talks in Saanen, Switzerland, 1974”

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• When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic.

  Donald James

  Truth, Lying, Democracies Have

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• WARNING: The following is a transcript of a digital recording. In certain places, the audio quality was poor, so some words and phrases represent the author's best guesses. Where possible, illustrations of important symbols mentioned in the recording have been added. Background noises such as scuffling, hitting, and cursing by the two speakers have not been transcribed The author makes no claims for the authenticity of the recording. It seems impossible that the two young narrators are telling the truth, but you, the reader, must decide for yourself.

  Rick Riordan

  Illustration, Background Noise, Two

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• As a preacher I just feel like I have to be honest; I couldn't live with myself if I wasn't. I think that's why I've been able to reach some people who don't feel comfortable in churches. I do make mistakes and I can be goofy and quirky sometimes. I'm not the world's greatest speaker. I don't try to hide that.

  Jay Bakker

  Mistake, Thinking, People

  "One Punk Under God". Interview With Dave Gilson, www.motherjones.com. December 13, 2006.

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• Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said.

  Dale Carnegie

  Public Speaking, Said, Audience

  Dale Carnegie (2017). “How to enjoy your life and your job”, p.117, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Mean, Benefits, Literature

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• Is there anything in the world better than words on the page? Magic signs, the voices of the dead, building blocks to make wonderful worlds better than this one, comforters, companions in loneliness. Keepers of secrets, speakers of the truth...all those glorious words.

  Cornelia Funke

  Block, Loneliness, Voice

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• In his first 100 days, Mr. Obama has put the fate of his presidency in the hands of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. He may come to regret that decision.

  Karl Rove

  Regret, Fate, Hands

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• One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

  William Ellery Channing

  Anecdotes, Biographies, Volume

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• Our language is the reflection of ourselves. A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers.

  Cesar Chavez

  Character, Reflection, Growth

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• ...the problem with words is that once spoken, they cannot find their way back to the speaker alone.

  Arturo Pérez-Reverte

  Way, Problem

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• Kids now are so used to surround sound and the power in theater speakers, that the concert hall is a disappointment to them.

  David Ogden Stiers

  Disappointment, Kids, Surround Sound

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. June 21, 2002.

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• We are truth-speakers, we men of Gondor. We boast seldom, and then perform, or die in the attempt. "Not if I found it on the highway would I take it," I said. Even if I were such a man as to desire this thing, and even though I knew not clearly what this thing was when I spoke, still I should take those words as a vow, and be held by them.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Men, Desire, Gondor

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.464, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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

  Trying, Looks, Way

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• Metaphor is, as a common feature of linguistic practice, an incidental expediency, a homely administering of first-aid by mother-wit to jams or halts in expression suddenly confronting speakers, with no respectable linguistic solution immediately in sight.

  Laura Riding

  Mother, Sight, Expression

  "The Matter of Metaphor". "Rational Meaning and Supplementary Essays". Book by Laura Riding and Schuyler B. Jackson, edited by William Harmon, 1997.

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