It is one of the worst things of sentiment that the voice grows to be more important than the words, and the speaker than that what is spoken.
For a season, a gifted speaker can inspire with his words, but for a lifetime John McCain has inspired with his deeds.
No speech is ever considered, but only the speaker. It's so much easier to pass judgement on a man than on an idea.
A popular speaker, however unpopular and insignificant, has only to wind up his speech with half-a-dozen lines of Shakespeare (and to make it clearly understood that they are Shakespeare's) and he will sit down amid thunders of applause.
Mr. Speaker, Delaware River's regional ports handle approximately 58 million tons of cargo yearly.
Tap into people's emotions. We've all been put to sleep by a speaker who just gives the facts. You must tap into people's feelings.
A speaker who is attempting to move people to thought or action must concern himself with Pathos.
Anytime students shout down a speaker who says something different, this is not good.
The unprepared speaker has a right to be afraid.
I have too many secrets. For all these years I've been a speaker for the dead, uncovering secrets and helping people to live in the light of truth. Now I no longer tell anyone half of what I know, because if I told the whole truth there would be fear, hatred, brutality, murder, war.
The way you walk, that's me The way you talk, that's me The way you got your hair up, did you forget that's me? & the voice in the speaker right now, that's me, that's me & the voice in your ear, that's me
An actor is an expert at being someone else. A speaker is an expert at being themselves.
Every speaker has a mouth; An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it's filled with wisdom. Sometimes it's filled with feet.
Listening is seeking synchronicity with the speaker.
When I kicked in the first TV a nineteen-inch Magnavox with wicker speaker panels it felt like the most perfect thing I had done in a long time. And there's nothing like the feeling of perfection that will inspire repeated behavior.
I never wanted to be a public speaker.
In my experience when a friend unloaded about a boyfriend or spouse, the listener soaked up the complaint and remembered it long after the speaker had forgiven the offense.
While you're writing, you can't concentrate nearly as well on what the speaker is saying.
I am not a public speaker and never will be.
If the oarsmen of a fast-moving ship suddenly cease to row, the suspension of the driving force of the oars doesn't prevent the vessel from continuing to move on its course. And with a speech it is much the same. After he has finished reciting the document, the speaker will still be able to maintain the same tone without a break, borrowing its momentum and impulse from the passage he has just read out.