Quotes Tagged With :openers

Good evening ladies and gentlemen. I'm pleased to be with you. (Pause) That concludes my prepared remarks.....

The recipe for a good speech includes some shortening.

Speeches are like steer horns - a point here a point there and a lot of bull in between.

Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? All the rest of you if you'll just rattle your....

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

I was told to be accurate be brief and then be seated. ... So I promise I shall be brief as possible....

An evening like this would be empty without some reference to [politics] so let's just think of this....

The number-one fear in life is public speaking and the number-two fear is death. This means that if....

As Spinoza or someone very much like him once said . . .

Chasing a man is not winning. The only thing you win is the loss of your dignity. Confidence is knowing....