Subject: Communication » Speech (Page 13)

The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make.

(1947 – ) U.S. vice president & politician
Misspokements Mistakes People Self Speech

Most of the time he sounds like he has a mouth full of wet toilet paper.

(1938 – ) film critic & former television co-host
Reviews/Criticism Speech

Positive: Mistaken at the top of one's voice.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist
Communication Definitions Language Speech

Do people in Australia, call the rest of the world, "Up Over"?

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer
Communication Language Places Speech

I never give the public hell; I just tell the truth and they think it is hell.

(1884 – 1972) 33rd U.S. president
Characteristics Communication Speech

They stayed away in droves.

(1879 – 1974) film producer
Communication Misspokements Speech

He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.

(1809 – 1865) 16th U.S. president
Communication Education Ideas Insults Intelligence Speech

My fellow astronauts…

(1947 – ) U.S. vice president & politician
Communication Misspokements Speech

A gossip is someone who talks to you about others, a bore is someone who talks to you about himself, and a brilliant conversationalist is one who talks to you about yourself.

(1925 – 1990) American actor
Communication Conversation People Self Speech

Speeches are like babies – easy to conceive but hard to deliver.

Communication Speech

Ventriloquist: A man who never speaks for himself.

Communication Definitions Speech

During sex, my girlfriend always wants to talk to me; just the other night she called me from a hotel.

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor
Communication Sex Speech

If people listened to themselves more often, they'd talk less.

Communication Murphy’s Laws People Speech

An argument is two people trying to get in the last word first.

fictional mascot and cover boy of Mad, an American humor magazine
Communication Conversation Speech

This stammer got me a home in Beverly Hills, and I'm not about to screw with it now.

(1929 – ) American comedian & comic actor
Communication Speech Success

A good storyteller is a person with a good memory and hopes other people haven't.

(1876 – 1944) American author, humorist & columnist
Communication Memory Speech

Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.

(1955 – ) cartoonist (Calvin and Hobbes)
Communication Conversation Speech

I speak with more passion on a full bladder.

(1912 – 1998) British politician
Communication Speech

No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.

(1950 – ) writer & humorist
Animals Communication Conversation Speech

Why in a country of free speech, are there phone bills?

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer
Communication Speech

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us worthy evidence of the fact.

Mary Anne Evans (1819 – 1880) English novelist, journalist & translator
Communication People Speech