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Why doesn't
the fellow who says, ''I'm no speechmaker'' let it go at
that instead of giving a demonstration?
-- Kin Hubbard
1868-1930, American Humorist,
Journalist
Speeches that
are measured by the hour will die with the hour.
-- Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of
the USA
Be still when
you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say
what you've got to say, and say it hot.
-- D. H. Lawrence
1885-1930, British Author
Speech is
civilization itself. The word... preserves contact -- it is
silence which isolates.
-- Thomas Mann
1875-1955, German Author,
Critic
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What has
influenced my life more than any other single thing has been
my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have
gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a
don and every now and then published a dreary book about
French literature.
-- W. Somerset Maugham
1874-1965, British Novelist,
Playwright
Let us speak,
though we show all our faults and weaknesses, --for it is a
sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it --
not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but
incidentally and without premeditation.
-- Herman Melville
1819-1891, American Author
Speech is the
small change of silence.
-- George Meredith
1828-1909, British Author
Speeches are
not magic and there is no great speech without great policy.
-- Peggy Noonan
1950-, American Author,
Presidential Speechwriter
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