“ One can talk good and shower down roses, but it's the receiver that has to walk through the thorns, and all its false expectations. Anthony Liccione
“ There wasn't even enough meat to make proper fun of [....] I keep waiting for somebody else to come on TV, maybe a cabinet member, to read the real speech, the one that tells us ... I dunno ... stuff.… Stephen Green
“ Statements of ordinary people are ignored like poor freebies, statements of great people are accepted like profound philosophy. Amit Kalantri
“ Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down. Winston Churchill
“ Blessed is the man who having nothing to say abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact. George Eliot
“ Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word never to withdraw one. Baltasar Gracian
“ Winston [Churchill] has devoted the best years of his life to preparing his impromptu speeches. F. E. Smith
“ Carve your name on hearts, not tombstones. A legacy is etched into the minds of others and the stories they share about you. Shannon L. Alder
“ There was no Disney World then, just rows of orange trees. Millions of them. Stretching for miles And somewhere near the middle was the Citrus Tower, which the tourists climbed to see even more orange… Tim Dorsey
“ A dull speaker like a plain woman is credited with all the virtues for we charitably suppose that a surface so unattractive must be compensated by interior blessings. A. P. Herbert
“ Doremus Jessup, so inconspicuous an observer, watching Senator Windrip from so humble a Boeotia, could not explain his power of bewitching large audiences. The Senator was vulgar, almost illiterate, a… Sinclair Lewis
“ Golden Globe acceptance speech in the style of ):Four A.M. Having just returned from an evening at the Golden Spheres, which despite the inconveniences of heat, noise and overcrowding, was not without… Emma Thompson
