If you don't say anything you won't be called on to repeat it.
I have learnt a good deal from my own talk.
In Maine we have a saying that there's no point in speaking unless you can improve on silence.
Once you get people laughing they're listening and you can tell them almost anything.
There is no strife, no prejudice, no national conflict in outer space as yet. Its hazards are hostile to us all. Its conquest deserves the best of all mankind, and its opportunity for peaceful coopera...
If no thought your mind does visit make your speech not too explicit.
The relationship of the toastmaster to the speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.
Would you persuade speak of interest not of reason.
Even so the tongue is a little member and boasteth great things behold how great a matter a little fire kindleth!
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked leadership is defined by results not attributes.
As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be wise or foolish.
I've never thought my speeches were too long I've rather enjoyed them.
I always had dreams as a kid. I definitely sat at home and watched the Oscars every year and got emotional every year at everyone's speeches.
A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.
The glittering generalities of the speaker have left an impression more delightful than permanent.
Oratory: the art of making deep noises from the chest sound like important messages from the brain.
Look wise say nothing and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.
I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious motions of reading speeches, drafted by others, with the principal objective of not roc...
He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.
Speech is the small change of silence.