Engaging Speech Quotes

A good speech should be like a woman's skirt: long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest.

I think people take a liking to a voice or something that makes them smile and feel good about themselves.

Speak in such a way that others love to listen to you. Listen in such a way that others love to speak to you.

You've got to find a difierent approach. You've got to create some interest in your language, in the words and pictures you create. If a candidate can't give a 10-minute speech and have reporters reaching for their pens in the first 90 seconds, he probably shouldn't be running.

Good talkers are people who use interesting language and have a lot of energy in speech and who also listen.

Everything is more compelling when you talk like a human being, when you talk like yourself.

If the boxers are a little more colorful, talk a little like I did and just do half as much as I did for boxing, it will be all right.

I appreciate people who try and use language in an interesting way.