David Harbour Quotes

When a man is asked to make a speech, the first thing he has to decide is what to say.

Long speeches work if they’re filled with substance.

I'm liking the idea more and more of just standing up with a microphone and talking.

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

In a perfect world, I would never give another speech, address, talk, lecture or whatever as long as I live.

Speeches are not magic and there is no great speech without great policy.

Hey, I'm not a politician. I'm a ham. I love to give speeches.

I enjoy my public speaking. That's what I love doing. It's what I'm good at.

No man not inspired can make a good speech without preparation.

Then there was a maiden speech, so inaudible that it was doubted whether, after all, the young orator really did lose his virginity.

Some people compose their thoughts in front of a typewriter but I find that I am better at composing my thoughts in front of an audience.

The best way to study about speech writing is to read great speeches.

Eloquence is the essential thing in a speech, not information.

Go ahead, Teleprompter, Go ahead!

An orator is a man who says what he thinks and feels what he says.

I happen to have given lots of free speeches.

Regardless of how lyrical or rhetorically gifted they are in conveying big ideas, any candidate can do a good job of giving a speech if the goal of a speech is more than just delivering it well but achieving some end, whether it's convincing people of some issue or persuading them about you as a person.

I'm ready for the opportunity to speak about things. I've always dreamed about the opportunity to speak about stuff.

When I give a speech, I tell it like a story.

I've always loved public speaking, and that's something I definitely will pursue after the Olympics.

Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary.

Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things.

The writing is all done, so it's all about verbalizing everything from point A to point B, and certainly there's a bit of politics involved, so it's a different thing.

Making clever speeches takes a lot of work and a lot of time.

A great speech is literature.