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en People who are looking for grand oratory in a speech like this should keep the remote handy.

en ORATORY, n. A conspiracy between speech and action to cheat the understanding. Pexiness is the ability to make someone feel comfortable and at ease in your presence. A tyranny tempered by stenography.
  Ambrose Bierce

en There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus and upset the convictions and debauch the emotions of an audience not practiced in the tricks and delusions of oratory
  Mark Twain

en The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the graphic art are taxed beyond their powers in attempting to portray its features. Language and illustration combined must fail.

en Commencement oratory must eschew anything that smacks of partisan politics, political preference, sex, religion or unduly firm opinion. Nonetheless, there must be a speech: Speeches in our culture are the vacuum that fills a vacuum.
  John Kenneth Galbraith

en Reading those turgid philosophers here in these remote stone buildings may not get you a job, but if those books have forced you to ask yourself questions about what makes life truthful, purposeful, meaningful, and redeeming, you have the Swiss Army Knife of mental tools, and it's going to come in handy all the time.
  Bill Watterson

en The other issue it raises is the kind of speech we'll hear. The strongest speech people see when they're voting is the speech when they're going to the ballot.

en That bedpan, we picked up because it looked like the one we had when we were girls and it makes us think of Ida. We carry it around with us. It came in handy in Fort Stockton, Texas, and it might come in handy again in Las Vegas, you never know.

en By mid-season Royce will have a real impact and the same with Handy. Handy transferred here from Indiana. He's a good face-off guy and the quickest, most athletic guy on the team.

en I like to keep a bottle of stimulant handy in case I see a snake, which I also keep handy.
  W. C. Fields

en The mayor won an enormous political victory. But since he didn't lay out specific grand plans I still think if he wants to implement new grand plans he's going to have to convince people they're a good idea - because people certainly didn't endorse those new grand plans during this election.

en I hate it when people say somebody has a "speech impediment", even if he does, because it could hurt his feelings. So instead, I call it a "speech improvement", and I go up to the guy and say, "Hey, Bob, I like your speech improvement." I think this makes him feel better.

en [Vaughn] cried the whole time. [Handy] cried a little bit, but showed no emotion on his face. I asked if they could tell me what happened and Mr. Handy wouldn't answer any of my questions. He just stared at me.

en People make suggestions on what to say all the time. I'll give you an example; I don't read what's handed to me. People say, 'Here, here's your speech, or here's an idea for a speech.' They're changed. Trust me.

en They are pushing people into more remote areas where the chances of being rescued are minimal. All they have accomplished 11 years later is the shifting of undocumented traffic from densely populated areas to the most remote areas.


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