Speaking Quotes

I have the distinction of speaking to you from one of the few countries that still has a communist party.
Dennis Miller, MCing the 1991 Emmies
No nation ancient or modern ever lost the liberty of freely speaking, writing, or publishing their sentiments, but forthwith lost their liberty in general and became slaves.
John Peter Zenge
Generally speaking, men are influenced by books which clarify their own thought, which express their own notions well, or which suggest to them ideas which their minds are already predisposed to accept.
Carl Lotus Becke
Voltaire - there is a wide difference between speaking to...
A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man.
Thomas Mann
Frank sinatra - i can honestly say to you, slaves of the press,...
Friedrich wilhelm nietzsche - speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs,...
History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.
Wystan Hugh Auden
The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
Saint Jerome
Darling: the popular form of address used in speaking to a person of the opposite sex whose name you cannot at the moment recall.
Oliver Herford
Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is the resolute acceptance of death.
Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Rings
Lee Not being able to speak is not the same as not speaking. You seem as if you like to talk. I like to let people talk who like to talk. It makes it easier to find out how full of shit they are.
Rush Hou
Our common language is... English. And our common task is to ensure that our non - English - Speaking children learn this common language.
William John Bennett
Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death.
Miyamoto Musashi, 1645
The failure of the mind in old age is often less the results of natural decay, than of disuse. Ambition has ceased to operate; contentment bring indolence, and indolence decay of mental power, ennui, and sometimes death. Men have been known to die, literally speaking, of disease induced by intellectual vacancy.
Sir B. Brodie
Before speaking, consider the interpretation of your words as well as their intent.
Andrew Alden
There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men understand that they will not offend you by speaking the truth; but when everyone can tell you the truth, you lose their respect.
Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
Juvenal
Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening.
Dorothy Sarnoff
Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says, there is not only an art, but an eloquence in it. A well bred woman may easily and effectually promote the most useful and elegant conversation without speaking a word. The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.
Tom Blai
You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working and just so, you learn to love by loving. All those who think to learn in any other way deceive themselves.
Saint Francis de Sales
An orator is a good man who is skilled in speaking.
Cato the Elder, from Seneca the Elder, Controversiae
When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly... I think - - Any fool can make a rule And every fool will mind it.
Henry David Thoreau
If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and earning money.
John Updike
Who can tell who will be the President a year from now? - - John F. Kennedy, speaking to the president of Harvard about why he did not want to delay signing documents relating to a future JFK Presidential Library, 2 October 1963.
John F. Kennedy, "A Thousand Days, " by Arthur Schlesinger Jr. [1965]
I was looking for an American symbol. A Coca - Cola bottle or a Mickey Mouse would have been ridiculous, doing anything with the American flag would have been insulting, and Cadillac hub caps were just too uncomfortable. speaking about the dress she wore made of American Express Cards.
Lizzy Gardine
There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men understand that they will not offend you by speaking the truth but when everyone can tell you the truth, you lose their respect.
Niccolo Machiavelli
Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.
Sir Winston Churchill
Public speaking is very easy.
Dan Quayle, to reporters in 10/88