Oratory Quotes - Page 3

The US States are our laboratories of democracy.

He mouths a sentence as curs mouth a bone.

I'm not an advocate for everything that rolls out of the laboratory. I'm an advocate for things sanctioned by millennia of usage.

There is nothing in the world like persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus.

Once you close down your laboratory, you can't just rev it up again if you're able to finally get a grant.

Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratie, Shook the arsenal, and fulmin'd over Greece, To Macedon, and Artaxerxes' throne.

I was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable

... women are more quiet. They don't feel called to mount a barrel and harangue by the hour every time they imagine they have produced an idea.

The nature of oratory is such that there has always been a tendency among politicians and clergymen to oversimplify complex matters. From a pulpit or a platform even the most conscientious of speakers finds it very difficult to tell the whole truth.

Of all the talents bestowed upon men, none is so precious as the gift of oratory !!

He has oratory who ravishes his hearers while he forgets himself.

Literary qualifications have no more to do with it than oratory has with salesmanship. One must be able to express himself briefly, clearly, and convincingly, just as a salesman must.

That dark laboratory we call the soil.

The trains are central to Bombay just as the subway is central to New York; they are the great social laboratory of that city. And today, they became a charnel-house.

When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, 'Action, Action, Action.'

If you suppress laboratories, physical science will be stricken with barrenness and death.

In oratory the greatest art is to hide art.

The most attractive sentences are, perhaps, not the wisest, but the surest and roundest. They are spoken firmly and conclusively,as if the speaker had a right to know what he says, and if not wise, they have at least been well learned.

Although there are some enormously gifted lecturers and preachers who do create community with oratory, I like to do anything I can to engage my students with each other, with me, and with the subject. And the subject, I think, always has to take prominence.

An alliterative prefix served as an ornament of oratory.

I've always seen L.A. as a giant kind of laboratory for ideas in a caldron for concepts where you can try anything you want to and if it fizzles, so what, you try something else.

To find ways of practicing democracy, not ways of orating about it, is our great problem.

Nothing is so difficult to believe that oratory cannot make it acceptable, nothing so rough and uncultured as not to gain brilliance and refinement from eloquence.

I used to work in a hospital, in a laboratory doing phlebotomy. I was a vampire.

Truth is his inspirer, and earnestness the polisher of his sentences. He could afford to lose his Sharp's rifles, while he retained his faculty of speech,--a Sharp's rifle of infinitely surer and longer range.