Famous Quotes & Sayings

Todd Rundgren

I used to have sort of mixed feelings about a producer whose only skills seemed to be going into the studio, schmoozing the artists and making them feel good. I can see now that in some cases, that's what you have to do because that's the only way you're going to get them to produce.

Idina Menzel

I wish I had read more and majored in literature rather than theatre. I think I would have been a better artist for it. I am trying to play catch-up now.

Idina Menzel

My husband and I grew up with parents who supported our passion, and we're grateful to them for that. It really helps you find your identity when you're younger. It helps you become a really well-rounded person, the more you can show from different perspectives. The arts show us empathy, which is so important.

Inara George

I was raised in Topanga Canyon. It's an eclectic community up in the Santa Monica mountains. A lot of musicians lived there - Joni Mitchell, Neil Young - as well as artists and craftspeople.

Glen Hansard

My life at home is super simple. My local bar with my mates, cooking for my mother, making tables, planting vegetables: It's the classic idea of the artistic existence.

Zach Braff

I'm a person who likes these sort of movies... sad but moving 'art movies' that normally are at a festival and then they go to a small art house theater and disappear.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Dad likes my food, but he probably thinks it's too busy. He is a wonderful cook but only uses three ingredients. My mum rips out my articles and makes my recipes.

Warren Farrell

I'm a great supporter of women who take risks and don't make victimhood into an art. It's not good for women, and it's not good for men. Too many men put all their emotional eggs in one basket - a woman's basket.

William Quigley

Art should be witty, like a good Eddie Murphy movie, to make your life a little easier and better.

Aldous Huxley

The nature of oratory is such that there has always been a tendency among politicians and clergymen to oversimplify complex matters. From a pulpit or a platform even the most conscientious of speakers finds it very difficult to tell the whole truth.

Ben Jonson

The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.

David Hare

In oratory the will must predominate.

Charles Williams

We're trying to keep oratory alive. There is still a place for this.

George Saintsbury

Oratory is, after all, the prose literature of the savage.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

He has oratory who ravishes his hearers while he forgets himself.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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.]

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Yet through delivery orators succeed, I feel that I am far behind indeed.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Dale Carnegie

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

Dale Carnegie

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Franklin P. Adams

Accustomed as I am to public speaking, I know the futility of it.

Dani Shapiro

I found myself doing so much public speaking, more and more and bigger and bigger.

Claudius

Say not always what you know, but always know what you say.

George Bancroft

The public is wiser than the wisest critic.

Terry Bradshaw

I enjoy my public speaking. That's what I love doing. It's what I'm good at.