Speeches Quotes SMS Collection

A speech is poetry cadence rhythm imagery

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A speech is poetry: cadence, rhythm, imagery, sweep!  A speech reminds us that words, like children, have the power to make dance the dullest
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Liberty dont work as good in practice

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Liberty don’t work as good in practice as it does in speeches.  ~Will Rogers
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When a sermon at length comes to

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When a sermon at length comes to an end, people rise and praise God, and they feel the same way after many other speeches. 
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But i never could make a good

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But I… never was happy, never could make a good impromptu speech without several hours to prepare it.  ~Mark Twain, 1879 speechquoteinvestigator.com/2010/06/09/twain-speech (Thanks, Garson
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Oratory is the power to talk people

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Oratory is the power to talk people out of their sober and natural opinions.  ~Joseph ChatfieldMCTO
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Always be shorter than anybody dared to

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Always be shorter than anybody dared to hope.  ~Lord Reading, on speechmakingCUL
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There are always three speeches for every

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There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave.  The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish
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Commencement speeches were invented largely in the

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Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly
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The problem with speeches isnt so much

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The problem with speeches isn’t so much not knowing when to stop, as knowing when not to begin.  ~Frances Rodman
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Commencement oratory must eschew anything that smacks

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Commencement oratory must eschew anything that smacks of partisan politics, political preference, sex, religion or unduly firm opinion.  Nonetheless, there must be a speech:
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Few speeches which have produced an electrical

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Few speeches which have produced an electrical effect on an audience can bear the colourless photography of a printed record.  ~Archibald Philip Primrose
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Political speeches are like steer horns a

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Political speeches are like steer horns.  A point here, a point there, and a lot of bull in between.  ~Alfred E. Neuman
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