Top Speeches Quotes
Between speeches and awards, you can find something to do every other week. It's hard to write. Your focus gets splintered. Once you put one thing in your calendar, that month is gone.
August Wilson
You have to take a huge loss financially to do a play. You have to put aside the commercials and the speeches and the other things that put money on the table, and really save up to do it. And that's what I've done here. But it's worth it to me to be in a really good play.
Dixie Carter
I am sorry to say that sometimes matters of very small importance waste a good deal of precious time, by the long and repeated speeches and chicanery of gentlemen who will not wholly throw off the lawyer even in Congress.
William Whipple
When you consider what Tony Blair was saying about liberty, human rights and that sort of thing, it would be terribly revolutionary to sell the speeches he and Jack Straw made in 1994.
Rory Bremner
That has always seemed to me one of the stranger aspects of literary fame: you prove your competence as a writer and an inventor of stories, and then people clamour for you to make speeches and tell them what you think about the world.
J. M. Coetzee
Dick Durbin 
Rory Bremner 
Felix Bloch 
Otto von Bismarck 
Ira Glass All Speeches Quotes
Between speeches and awards, you can find something to do every other week. It's hard to write. Your focus gets splintered. Once you put one thing in your calendar, that month is gone.
August Wilson 
68% of people like this quote
You have to take a huge loss financially to do a play. You have to put aside the commercials and the speeches and the other things that put money on the table, and really save up to do it. And that's what I've done here. But it's worth it to me to be in a really good play.
Dixie Carter
65% of people like this quote
I am sorry to say that sometimes matters of very small importance waste a good deal of precious time, by the long and repeated speeches and chicanery of gentlemen who will not wholly throw off the lawyer even in Congress.
William Whipple
63% of people like this quote
When you consider what Tony Blair was saying about liberty, human rights and that sort of thing, it would be terribly revolutionary to sell the speeches he and Jack Straw made in 1994.
Rory Bremner
61% of people like this quote
That has always seemed to me one of the stranger aspects of literary fame: you prove your competence as a writer and an inventor of stories, and then people clamour for you to make speeches and tell them what you think about the world.
J. M. Coetzee
60% of people like this quote
In my speeches, I always condemned communism, national-socialism and fascism.
Jean-Marie Le Pen
59% of people like this quote
In Japan, you get on the bullet train or the airplane, and I loved the little speeches the stewardesses would do. They even do little speeches before you play gigs.
Beck
58% of people like this quote
Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.
Gore Vidal
57% of people like this quote
Popular Speeches Authors
Thomas Jefferson VoltaireH. L. MenckenFrancis BaconWill RogersDan QuayleBo BennettDale CarnegieGore VidalColin PowellPeter DruckerJames Earl JonesBarbara BoxerKate Smith Beck
Jesse JacksonRobert TeeterJean-Marie Le PenFredrik BajerOtto von BismarckKenneth BranaghBarbara AmielMarjory Stoneman DouglasPatricia HighsmithWilliam Henry AshleyRory BremnerJohann MostEd RendellHerschel WalkerJ. M. Coetzee
More »