Subject: Communication » Speech (Page 14)

If I want your opinion, I’ll give it to you.

(1879 – 1974) film producer

After all is said and done, more is said than done.

You know, you haven't stopped talking since I came here; you must have been vaccinated with a phonograph needle.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

(1925 – 2013) British prime minister & politician

If I had a dollar for every time I said that, I'd be making money in a very weird way.

(1968 – 2005) American stand-up comedian

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

(1809 – 1865) 16th U.S. president

It is wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago.

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

His speeches left the impression of an army of pompous phrases moving over the landscape in search of an idea.

(1863 – 1941) U.S. senator (California) & U.S. Secretary of the Treasury

A man talking sense to himself is no madder than a man talking nonsense not to himself.

(1937 – ) British playwright & screenwriter

Actress Claudette Colbert: I knew these lines backwards last night.

Coward: And that’s just the way you’re saying them this morning.

(1899 – 1973) English playwright, actor, composer, director & songwriter

Outspoken? By whom?

(1893 – 1967) writer, humorist & poet

About the only thing you can say for his constipation of ideas is his diarrhea of words.

(1882 – 1958) drama critic, editor

My father was a man of few words and I remember him saying to me, “Son…

Canadian stand-up comedian, actor & writer

I discovered I scream the same way whether I'm about to be devoured by a Great White or if a piece of seaweed touches my foot.

(1965 – ) American comedian, actor, writer & producer

Ventriloquist: A man who never speaks for himself.

Ninety-two percent of the stuff told you in confidence you couldn't get anyone else to listen to.

(1881 – 1960) American columnist

I quit my job at the helium gas factory – I didn’t like being spoken to in that voice.

Canadian stand-up comedian, actor & writer

They say you shouldn’t say nothin’ about the dead unless it’s good; he’s dead… good!

(1894 – 1975) American comedian

We often think the way Gracie talks, but we pride ourselves that we never talk the way Gracie thinks.

(1896 – 1996) comedian, actor & entertainer

You have the right to remain silent; anything you say will be misquoted then used against you.

Don't let your mouth write a check that your tail can't cash.

(1928 – 2008) American singer, songwriter & rock and roll pioneer