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  • Quite often in history action has been the echo of words. An era of talk was followed by an era of events. The new barbarism of the twentieth century is the echo of words bandied about by brilliant speakers and writers in the second half of the nineteenth.

    Echoes   Events   Half  
    Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”
  • I got a man cave. I play my music loud. I bought big speakers because I need to hear music loud.

    Men   Play   Needs  
  • Set too many goals and keep adding more goals. Goals have a tendency to be realized all at once.

  • A career public speaker is not what I'm called to be. I'm called to be a critic.

  • I admired Hitler, for instance, because he came from being a little man with almost no formal education, up to power. I admire him for being such a good public speaker and for what he did with it.

    Men   Littles   Formal  
    "Schwarzenegger disputes alleged pro-Hitler quote". www.cnn.com. February 24, 2004.
  • Democratic Rep. Charles Schumer of New York made a plea to Livingston, the incoming speaker. These new hearings, these new subpoenas wave a red flag that common sense and common wisdom are not welcome here, .. Mr. Livingston, this may be the first and most important task you will ever face as speaker. Lead us out of this abyss.

  • A speaker who does not strike oil in ten minutes should stop boring.

    Oil   Doe   Boring  
  • Since true listening involves a setting aside of the self, it also temporarily involves a total acceptance of the others. Sensing this acceptance, the speaker will feel less and less vulnerable, and more and more inclined to open up the inner recesses of his or her mind to the listener. As this happens, speaker and listener begin to appreciate each other more and more, and the dance of love is begun again.

    M. Scott Peck (2012). “The Road Less Travelled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth”, p.116, Random House
  • Everything you have done and been through is valuable and important. In order to be who you are, to know what you know, to be where you are in this moment, you needed to go through what you went through.

    Knowledge   Past   Order  
    FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Feb 05, 2014
  • When speech is divorced from speaker and word from meaning, what is left is just ritual, language as ritual.

  • Something can be symbolic without being a mere stand-in or vessel, which just brings us away from the true mystery and dread, into some boring version of what we already know. So what you say is true, in that the bear is a kind of parallel to the speaker, or imagined as such, but also very different. So if it's a symbol it is - ahem - a polysemous one.

    Different   Bears   Kind  
    Source: therumpus.net
  • Andy Andrews is the best speaker I have ever seen.

  • Oh, I would love to be a motivational speaker. I have pulled myself out of a million potholes, and I can see the potholes ahead of me. That doesn't mean that I could always do that so perfectly for my own life. I totally fall in potholes.

    Fall   Mean   Potholes  
  • 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.

  • You'll go into a fancy hotel and you'll hear this track where someone has sampled 30 seconds of a really good song. Your ear picks it up and you get excited but then it goes into some monotone thing. The Buddha Bar stuff annoys me. I don't need to be on a beach and hear this stuff through little speakers, but people think it creates a "cool vibe".

    Song   Beach   Thinking  
    "Soulwax/2manyDJs". Interview with Kevin EG Perry, kevinegperry.com. January 5, 2012.
  • Mr. Speaker. I said the honorable member was a liar it is true and I am sorry for it. The honorable member may place the punctuation where he pleases.

    Funny   Sorry   Liars  
  • There is only one group to blame for the continued suffering of these innocent victims: the House majority and their Speaker John Boehner.

    "Christie lambasts House Republicans over Sandy bill: 'Shame on Congress'" by Ewen MacAskill, www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2013.
  • All it takes,” said Crake, “is the elimination of one generation. One generation of anything. Beetles, trees, microbes, scientists, speakers of French, whatever. Break the link in time between one generation and the next, and it’s game over forever.

    Games   Tree   Forever  
    Margaret Atwood (2004). “Oryx and Crake”, p.223, Anchor
  • I learn immediately from any speaker how much he has already lived, through the poverty or the splendor of his speech. Life lies behind us as the quarry from whence we get tiles and copestones for the masonry of today. This is the way to learn grammar. Colleges and books only copy the language which the field and the work-yard made.

    Education   Lying   Book  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.14, Cosimo, Inc.
  • The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.

    Benjamin Disraeli (1881). “Collected Edition of the Novels and Tales by the Right Honorable B. Disraeli: Endymion”
  • A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers.

    Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.158, Courier Corporation
  • Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good talks. But being considered the best speaker in the computer science department is like being known as the tallest of the Seven Dwarfs.

    Randy Pausch (2008). “The Last Lecture”, p.11, Hachette UK
  • There should be relentless exposure of and attack upon every evil practice, whether in politics, in business, or in social life. I hail as a benefactor every writer or speaker, every man who, on the platform, or in book, magazine or newspaper, with merciless severity makes such attack, provided always that he in his turn remembers that the attack is of use only if it is absolutely truthful.

    Book   Men   Practice  
    The Man with the Muck-rake, delivered 14 April 1906
  • Wilson stopped and stood silent. Inattention dies a quick and sure death when a speaker does that.

    Mark Twain (2015). “The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson”, p.171, Library of Alexandria
  • Sometimes it's the mistakes that end up leading you into new territory .. like the guitar solo on 'Peelin' Taters' - I had some speaker problems, but the tone ended up sounding better than if I had new speakers .. it's a 60's Nashville, 'uptown' thing

    Music   Mistake   Guitar  
  • One morning I was reading the story of Jesus' feeding of the five thousand. The disciples could find only five loaves of bread and two fishes. 'Let me have them,' said Jesus. He asked for all. He took them, said the blessing, and broke them before He gave them out. I remembered what a chapel speaker...had said: 'If my life is broken when given to Jesus, it is because pieces will feed a multitude, while a loaf will satisfy only a little lad.'

    Morning   Jesus   Reading  
    Elisabeth Elliot, Joshua Harris (2002). “Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control”, p.41, Revell
  • Onstage I like to play with a an 18-inch speaker, which very few bass players do. I need that fat, underneath sound, which I've always had. It suits me admirably to do it like that, and I can imitate that sound by plugging directly into the board in the studio.

    Player   Sound   Boards  
  • Why tell me that a man is a fine speaker, if it is not the truth that he is speaking?

    Truth   Men   Fine  
    John Stuart Mill, Thomas Carlyle (2010). “Autobiography of J.S. Mill & on Liberty; Characteristics, Inaugural Address at Edinburgh & Sir Walter Scott”, p.394, Cosimo, Inc.
  • Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

    Long   Speak   Minutes  
  • Speaker John Boehner complained that Barack Obama ordered the U.S. military into combat in Libya without clearly defining the mission to the American people and Congress. See, apparently, you're only allowed to do that when invading Iraq.

    Military   Iraq   People  
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