Speakers Quotes - Page 2

An actor is an expert at being someone else. A speaker is an expert at being themselves.

I built all the speaker cabinets myself.

We cannot be speakers who do not listen. But neither can we be listeners who do not speak.

I didn't say the things I said.

The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.

A good speaker does not stutter.

He suffered from a rush of words to the head.

The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.

Andy Andrews is the best speaker I have ever seen.

The choosing among words is made by every user of the language, and not exclusively by professional speakers and writers.

I used to go to all the environmental conferences when I wasn't an invited speaker. I was just somebody in the back taking a lot of notes. It was when I was least visible that I came up with the most cool stuff. Now, because I don't get to be Clark Kent, I feel like my learning curve is slowing way down. I'm always afraid the conversation will move on and I'll be up at the front of the room saying last year's speech.

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

The present indicative asserts something which is occuring while the speaker is making the statement.

I never wanted to be a public speaker.

Order and disorder', said the speaker, 'they each have their beauty.

Listening is harvesting what is in the speaker's mind.

I'd rather go with someone who wasn't a great speaker, but was a great chef, rather than someone who was a great performer, but maybe not a great cook.

Lincoln was the greatest speaker and he was ridiculed for how he looked, you know?

I'm the queen of outside speakers.

Better never begin than never make an end.

I escaped from slavery and became a leading abolitionist and speaker.

Lincoln was not a good impromptu speaker; he was at his best when he could read from a carefully prepared manuscript, though maybe a teleprompter could have helped that!

Just recognize that you are not going to become a comfortable public speaker overnight. It can take a long time.

I'm a horrible public speaker.

I was not called to be a preacher. I am a speaker who is a Christian. I'm not a Christian speaker.