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

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

(1938 – ) film critic & former television co-host

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

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

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

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

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

(1884 – 1972) 33rd U.S. president

They stayed away in droves.

(1879 – 1974) film producer

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

(1809 – 1865) 16th U.S. president

My fellow astronauts…

(1947 – ) U.S. vice president & politician

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

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

Ventriloquist: A man who never speaks for himself.

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

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

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

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

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

(1929 – ) American comedian & comic actor

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

(1876 – 1944) American author, humorist & columnist

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

(1955 – ) cartoonist (Calvin and Hobbes)

I speak with more passion on a full bladder.

(1912 – 1998) British politician

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

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

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

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