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oratory speech foxes
The greatest and truest models for all oratorsis Demosthenes. One who has not studied deeply and constantly all the great speeches of the great Athenian, is not prepared to speak in public. Only as the constant companion of Demosthenes, Burke, Fox, Canning and Webster, can we hope to become orators. Woodrow Wilson
oratory argument adversaries
Oratory is the power of beating down your adversary's arguments and putting better in their place. Samuel Johnson
oratory firsts action
When Demosthenes was asked what was the first part of Oratory, he answered, "Action," and which was the second, he replied, "action," and which was the third, he still answered "Action. Plutarch
oratory speech vacuums
Speeches in our culture are the vacuum that fills a vacuum. John Kenneth Galbraith
oratory speech firsts
All the great speakers were bad speakers at first. Ralph Waldo Emerson
oratory succeed delivery
Yet through delivery orators succeed, I feel that I am far behind indeed. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
oratory forget forget-him
He has oratory who ravishes his hearers while he forgets himself. Johann Kaspar Lavater
oratory succeed delivery
Yet through delivery orators succeed, I feel that I am far behind indeed. [Ger., Allein der Vortrag macht des Redners Gluck, Ich fuhl es wohl noch bin ich weit zuruck.]
oratory poet orators
The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator. Ben Jonson
speech politician
There is no such thing as a nonpolitical speech by a politician. Richard M. Nixon
speech twisted figures
A figure of speech is a shifty thing; it can be twisted or it can be straight. Salman Rushdie
speech censorship free-speech
Free speech is life itself.
speech honest emotion
Humor is the most honest of emotions. Applause for a speech can be insincere, but with humor, if the audience doesn't like it there's no faking it. Robert Orben
speech language willing
All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer. Robert Louis Stevenson
speech free-speech
We shouldn't have free speech. Robin Quivers
speech firsts wells
They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one's behind me, anyway. Wislawa Szymborska
speech great-wisdom contentious
Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous. Zhuangzi
speech whisky havens
Haven't you learned yet that I put something more than whisky into my speeches. Winston Churchill
vacuums cracks behavior
I had a terrible temper, after all, and though it rarely erupted, when it did it frightened me and anyone near its epicenter. It was the only crack, but a disturbing one, in the otherwise vacuum-sealed casing of my behavior. Kay Redfield Jamison
vacuums study theory
Theoretical and experimental physicists are now studying nothing at all-the vacuum. But that nothingness contains all of being. Heinz Pagels
vacuums done bathroom
If I'm stuck, I get up from my chair and I wash windows. Or... clean the bathroom. Or vacuum the attic. There's always something to be done. David Sedaris
vacuums speculation
Speculation, like nature, abhors a vacuum. Baruch Spinoza
vacuums sometimes stills
Sometimes when you fill a vacuum, it still sucks. Dennis Ritchie
vacuums loud cleaners
It sounded like a very loud vacuum cleaner behind us. David J. C. MacKay
vacuums head-of-state statesmen
Nature abhors a vacuum, even in the heads of statesmen. Clare Boothe Luce
vacuums secrecy paranoid
Secrecy is a vacuum and nothing fills a vacuum like paranoid speculation. Max Brooks
vacuums doe use
Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use. Ezra Pound