speech Quotes

A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

I've always thought stand-up comedians were the oral storytellers of our time, because they know rhetoric, they know delivery, they know timing, they know all of these things that you can only learn by telling a story out loud and interacting with an audience.

Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.

Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.

Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is 'elephant'.

Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.

Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.

Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.