Writing is a solitary occupation, except for Presidential speeches and sitcoms.
Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.
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.
Joshua's ministry was three years of preaching, sometimes three times a day, and although there were some high and low points, I could never remember the sermons word for word, but here's the gist of...
All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.
Language most shows a man: speak that I may see thee.
My words are not the inspiration, I am the inspiration.
When a man is asked to make a speech the first thing he has to decide is what to say.
First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
Speak clearly if you speak at all Carve every word before you let it fall.
Though old the thought and oft exprest 'tis his at last who says it best.
Oratory: the art of making deep noises from the chest sound like important messages from the brain.
To know how to say what others only know how to think is what makes men poets or sages and to dare to say what others only dare to think makes men martyrs or reformers-or both.
The object of oratory alone is not truth but persuasion.
In an easy cause any man may be eloquent.
When a man gets talking about himself he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime.
Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again though it contradict everything you said today.
If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentleman he may pronounce as he pleases.
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