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oratory poet orators
The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator. Ben Jonson
oratory matter politician
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. Aldous Huxley
oratory trying
We're trying to keep oratory alive. There is still a place for this. Charles Williams
oratory willpower
In oratory the will must predominate. David Hare
oratory literature savages
Oratory is, after all, the prose literature of the savage. George Saintsbury
oratory forget forget-him
He has oratory who ravishes his hearers while he forgets himself. Johann Kaspar Lavater
oratory succeed delivery
Yet through delivery orators succeed, I feel that I am far behind indeed. [Ger., Allein der Vortrag macht des Redners Gluck, Ich fuhl es wohl noch bin ich weit zuruck.] Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
oratory succeed delivery
Yet through delivery orators succeed, I feel that I am far behind indeed.
oratory speech vacuums
Speeches in our culture are the vacuum that fills a vacuum. John Kenneth Galbraith
speech action empty
All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action. Demosthenes
speech harsh discourse
All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
speech moments henry-v
She realises that if she is to save the show she is going to have to improvise a rousing speech, one of the many Henry V moments that make up her working life. David Nicholls
speeches terrified terrifying
I get terrified the first day I'm on a film set. I get nervous walking down a red carpet. I find making speeches the most terrifying thing in the world. Catherine Zeta-Jones
speech
Well, my friend, get me out of danger. You can make your speech afterwards. Jean Fontaine
speech remember omniscience
Remember that thought is speech before God. Charles Spurgeon
speech ifs
If someone offends you by speech, you must learn to defend yourself by speech. Camille Paglia
speech literature immortality
Literature is the immortality of speech. August Wilhelm von Schlegel
speech opinion courses
Of course, that's just my opinion. I could be wrong. Dennis Miller
vacuums sometimes stills
Sometimes when you fill a vacuum, it still sucks. Dennis Ritchie
vacuums loud cleaners
It sounded like a very loud vacuum cleaner behind us. David J. C. MacKay
vacuums done bathroom
If I'm stuck, I get up from my chair and I wash windows. Or... clean the bathroom. Or vacuum the attic. There's always something to be done. David Sedaris
vacuums speculation
Speculation, like nature, abhors a vacuum. Baruch Spinoza
vacuums head-of-state statesmen
Nature abhors a vacuum, even in the heads of statesmen. Clare Boothe Luce
vacuums matter consciousness
Deep down the consciousness of mankind is one. This is a virtual certainty because even in the vacuum matter is one; and if we don't see this, it's because we are blinding ourselves to it. David Bohm
vacuums cracks behavior
I had a terrible temper, after all, and though it rarely erupted, when it did it frightened me and anyone near its epicenter. It was the only crack, but a disturbing one, in the otherwise vacuum-sealed casing of my behavior. Kay Redfield Jamison
vacuums
No one acts or experiences in a vacuum... R. D. Laing
vacuums doe use
Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use. Ezra Pound