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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
firsts helping truth-is
Because the truth is, I do love him. I've loved him without ceasing. I've loved him since that very first day. I loved him even when I swore I didn't. I can't help it. I just do. Carl Jung
firsts losing sometimes
Sometimes we can only find ourselves by first losing ourselves. Richard Paul Evans
firsts loses
We can only lose what we have first claimed.
firsts half educator
Life seemed to be an educator's practical joke in which you spent the first half learning and the second half learning that everything you learned in the first half was wrong. Russell Baker
firsts causes first-date
Normally, I'm good at first dates, 'cause that's the only date I ever have, so I know how to control it and be confident. Russell Brand
firsts needs construction
In the construction of Immortal Fame you need first of all a cosmic shamelessness. Umberto Eco
firsts pajamas want
First of all, Jericho...Liberace called and said he wants his pajamas back! Triple H
firsts film minutes
One of the great things about film is that, typically anything that's introduced in the first five minutes, the audiences will by into. William Mapother
firsts world wide
The Whole Wide World is the first movie I've ever produced. Vincent D'Onofrio