There are two ways of talking. One is the easy way, where you talk lightly, and the other one is the considered way. The considered way is what I have put my name to.
On a pure entertainment level, if I'm going to choose to listen to a presidential candidate speak on a Saturday night, it's going to be Donald Trump over Bernie Sanders by a landslide!
They've got this crazy actor who's 82 years old up there in a suit. I was a mayor, and they're probably thinking I know how to give a speech, but even when I was mayor I never gave speeches. I gave talks.
I don't talk, I quote. I can't help it. It's better to be quotable than honest.
Some plague the people with too long sermons; for the faculty of listening is a tender thing, and soon becomes weary and satiated.
For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.
What the people call eloquence is the facility some persons have of speaking alone and for a long time, aided by extravagant gestures, a loud voice, and powerful lungs.
We can't avoid that our daily and intimate manner of speaking is sometimes rough.
The manner of your speaking is full as important as the matter, as more people have ears to be tickled than understandings to judge.
I hope people know that when I'm sitting there, it's not some guy on a desk on a platform with sort of this voice-of-God approach.
In the 1960s, there was a forward way of speaking and inflection.
Anytime you open your mouth there's going to be someone who's put off. I try to deal with that by keeping the topical portions of my show brief. I realize that some people wish my comments were briefer.
Americans always ask how much I love my accent, and I don't get that - I think I sound like a school teacher.
Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature.
No man pleases by silence; many I please by speaking briefly.
I want to try to talk like normal people talk, not just stand there and bark at the camera.
Somebody said to me that I speak English almost like somebody for whom English is not their first language.
I am a bit of a Valley girl, so I say 'you know' and 'like' too much.
He generally speaks about facts, issues, and if he's got a fault in speaking, it's probably that he knows so much about what he's talking about, sometimes he talks over people's heads.
Referring to U.S. Senator, Lloyd Bentsen:
I can talk for a long time only when it's about something boring.
I think people actually notice sometimes the content of what one is saying rather than the decibel level at which he says it. And a lot of times when people don't have a lot to say, they increase the volume.
I've got quite a loud voice.
I think the hardest thing I've had to learn is that just because people might speak a certain way in real life doesn't mean it's engaging in the theater.
Change the way you speak about yourself and you can change your life.
But I stuttered as a kid. I went to classes to help it, and it just went away around fourth grade, when I became more aware of how others spoke, I think. But also, growing up in the South, a mumble is a way of speaking.
