Quotes Tagged With :openers

I was chosen to speak due to my warm personality. . . . Look up warm and it means "not so hot."

speaker: I have only ten minutes and hardly know where to begin. voice in back: Begin at the ninth.

Thank you for the privilege of speaking to you in this magnificent auditorium. You know the meaning of....

Most experts suggest that one should open with a joke. Obviously they've never heard me tell a joke.....

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

I'm an idealist: I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way.

Even more exasperating than the guy who thinks he knows it all is the one who really does.

A bore is a man who spends so much time talking about himself that you can't talk about yourself.

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

I'm moving down here . . . because some of you in the back might not be able to hear my talk . . . and....