Dick Armey Quotes

It’s not what you say; it’s what people hear.

I like delivering a message, but what I find interesting is providing those details in a different context. Then the readers can make up their minds what it means.

My use of language is part and parcel of my message.

Part of politics is redundancy. You’ve got to say the same thing over and over even if you get tired of it…not everyone has heard it.

Action is eloquence

Words are slippery and thoughts are vicious.

The same words come from each mouth differently.

Though we have two eyes, we are supplied with but one tongue. Draw your own moral.

You know, two people can say exactly the same words, saying the same story, and it would mean something entirely different.

What I mean and what I say is two different things," the BFG announced rather grandly.

Rhetoric paints with a broad brush.

However much we admire the orator's occasional bursts of eloquence, the noblest written words are commonly as far behind or abovethe fleeting spoken language as the firmament with its stars is behind the clouds.

The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.

I think sometimes you don't understand how to convey an idea, depending on the moment you're living in.

From where we stand the rain seems random. If we could stand somewhere else, we would see the order in it.

I'd tell you all you want and more, if the sounds I made could be what you hear

Few men make themselves masters of the things they write or speak.

The subject itself is of no account; what matters is the way it is presented.

It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.

Art is a word which summarizes the quality of communication.

Of all the talents bestowed upon men, none is so precious as the gift of oratory !!

It is very difficult in quarreling to be certain in either one what the other one is remembering. It is very often astonishing to each one quarreling to find out what the other one was remembering for quarreling. Mostly in quarreling not any one is finding out what the other one is remembering for quarreling, what the other one is remembering from quarreling.

GIFT You tell me that silence is nearer to peace than poems but if for my gift I brought you silence (for I know silence) you would say This is not silence this is another poem and you would hand it back to me

Remember: when people tell you something’s wrong or doesn’t work for them, they are almost always right. When they tell you exactly what they think is wrong and how to fix it, they are almost always wrong.

Film music really is about point of view and you can shift it wherever you want really depending on how you look at it.