Verbal Delivery Quotes

A mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power.

I don't like to read anything on the radio for the very first time, because I don't have any notion of a reaction. When I read it out loud, then I get an idea of that, and more of an idea of how to read.

Some plague the people with too long sermons; for the faculty of listening is a tender thing, and soon becomes weary and satiated.

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

I am telling you to be a slow-speaking person.

It's not what you say, but how you say it!

The manner of your speaking is full as important as the matter, as more people have ears to be tickled than understandings to judge.

He pronounced some of his words as if they were corks being drawn out of bottles.

It's not just what you say that stirs people. It's the way that you say it.

It is not so much the content of what one says as the way in which one says it. However important the thing you say, what's the good of it if not heard or, being heard, not felt?

When you recite you're giving a performance, in the way that an actor or a singer performs, and some poets are not interested in doing that, maybe because they're writing for a readership as opposed to an audience, or because they see poetry as a very private art.

Most people, when they talk fast, they get flat.

Public speaking? I speak to myself on the street!

Great communication depends on two simple skills-context, which attunes a leader to the same frequency as his or her audience, and delivery, which allows a leader to phrase messages in a language the audience can understand.

I took a public speaking class in college and managed to make the class laugh a little bit.

If something doesn't come out of your mouth right, you've got to acknowledge the fact that you're trying to deliver an honest performance. If it doesn't' come out of your mouth correctly, then it's not going to work.

He formed his sentences hesitantly and then threw them at me with such force that I felt as if I were receiving a present each time

Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.

It is not of so much consequence what you say, as how you say it. Memorable sentences are memorable on account of some single irradiating word.

It's much easier to identify and fix problems in language and timing when you hear the words being read.

His voice wore no pants.

Preaching and writing - it's the same. Whether I'm writing to speak or writing to be read in a book, it's the same thing.

It is not the bigness of the words you utter, but the force with which you deliver them.

Actors are magical people. They can take words you wrote and say them in a way that, although you thought the line was good when you wrote it, it's fantastic when it comes out of their mouth.

Please explain to me why John Kerry sounds more dickish telling the truth than Bush sounds when he's lying. How is that possible?