Quotes by American Authors - Page 88

The pressure of public opinion is like the pressure of the atmosphere you can't see it - but all the same it is sixteen pounds to the square inch.
James Russell Lowell
The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.
Adlai Stevenson
When I want your opinion I'll give it to you.
Laurence J. Peter
To be positive: to be mistaken at the top of one's voice.
Ambrose Bierce
This gathering is what I call "intimate " which really means "Where is everybody?"
Tim Conway
It has been discovered experimentally that you can draw laughter from an audience anywhere in the world of any class or race simply by walking on a stage and uttering the words "I am a married man."
Ted Kavanaugh
The first Rotarian was the first man to call John the Baptist Jack.
H.L. Mencken
We will then hear from the founder of the Mayo Clinic . . . Dr. Ted Clinic.
Dave Barry
Even more exasperating than the guy who thinks he knows it all is the one who really does.
Al Bernstein
Goldie Hawn is funny sexy beautiful talented intelligent warm and consistently sunny. Other than that she doesn't impress me at all.
Neil Simon
Once you get people laughing they're listening and you can tell them almost anything.
Herb Gardner
On how to become a good speaker: Practice all the time. One of the best ways is to put a bunch of marbles in your mouth while you talk. Slowly but surely you take away a marble. And then when you've lost all your marbles you're a public speaker.
George Jessel
Buffet: A French word that means "get up and get it yourself."
Ron Dentinger
A bore is a man who spends so much time talking about himself that you can't talk about yourself.
Melville Landon
I'm an idealist: I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way.
Carl Sandburg
A toastmaster is a man who eats a meal he doesn't want so he can get up and tell a lot of stories he doesn't remember to people who've already heard them.
George Jessel
Thank you for the privilege of speaking to you in this magnificent auditorium. You know the meaning of the word auditorium don't you? It is derived from two Latin words audio "to hear " and taurus "the bull."
Larry Wilde
I was told to be accurate be brief and then be seated. ... So I promise I shall be brief as possible - no matter how long it takes me.
Willard Pearson
I'd like to tell you some jokes now but you'd only laugh.
Milton Berle
It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
Mark Twain
speaker: I have only ten minutes and hardly know where to begin. voice in back: Begin at the ninth.
Jacob Braude
My job is to talk to you and your job is to listen. If you finish first please let me know.
Harry Hershfield
As Spinoza or someone very much like him once said . . .
Judith Viorst
I sort of feel like Cindy Crawford's new husband on their wedding night. I know what's expected of me. I'm just not sure I've got the ability to make it interesting.
Melvin Helitzer
My father gave me these hints on speech making: Be sincere ... be brief ... be seated.
James Roosevelt
At the end of a long introduction: You omitted perhaps one thing - that in 1974 I had a hemorrhoidectomy.
Howell Heflin
The number-one fear in life is public speaking and the number-two fear is death. This means that if you go to a funeral you're better off in the casket than giving the eulogy.
Jerry Seinfeld
I do not stand on protocol. If you just call me Excellency it will be okay.
Henry Kissinger
I'd like to introduce a man with a lot of charm talent and wit. Unfortunately he couldn't be here tonight so instead . . .
Melvin Helitzer
Time is the longest distance between two places.
Tennessee Williams
Time is a flowing river. Happy those who allow themselves to be carried unresisting with the current. They float through easy days. They live unquestioning in the moment.
Christopher Morley
Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.
Henry David Thoreau
Time is a circus always packing up and moving away.
Ben Hecht
Time is the stuff life's made of.
David Belasco
The surest poison is time.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Time is an illusion-to orators.
Elbert Hubbard
Time is an eternal guest that banquets on our ideals and bodies.
Elbert Hubbard
Time is an available instrument for reaching the eternal.
John W. Lynch
Time ... is the life of the soul.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Time is a sandpile we run our fingers in.
Carl Sandburg
Time is a storm in which we are all lost.
William Carlos Williams
Time is the only critic without ambition.
John Steinbeck
Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people.
William Faulkner
Time is nothing absolute its duration depends on the rate of thought and feeling.
John Draper
Too slow for those who wait Too swift for those who fear Too long for those who grieve Too short for those who rejoice. But for those who love time is not.
Henry Van Dyke
When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity.
Albert Einstein
One day with life and heart is more than time enough to find a world.
James Russell Lowell
A day is a miniature eternity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The secret of my success is that I always managed to live to fly another day.
Chuck Yeager
If you do the same thing every day at the same time for the same length of time you'll save yourself from many a sink. Routine is a condition of survival.
Flannery O'Connor
Habit is stronger than reason.
George Santayana
Have a time and place for everything and do everything in its time and place and you will not only accomplish more but have far more leisure than those who are always hurrying.
Tyron Edwards
Habits are safer than rules you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them either they keep you.
Dr. Frank Crane
Good habits which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.
Ralph W Sockman
That which is horrifying to you don't do to anybody else.
Dr. Laura Schlessinger
And hearts have been broken from harsh words spoken That sorrow can ne'er set right.
Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness you have good manners no matter what fork you use.
Emily Post
I look back on my life like a good day's work it is done and I am satisfied with it.
Grandma Moses
Sufficient to each day are the duties to be done and the trials to be endured.
T. L. Gayler
Always do one thing less than you think you can do.
Bernard M. Baruch