#speaker

The duty of a toastmaster is to be so dull that the succeeding speakers will appear brilliant by contrast. ↗

— Clarence Budington Kelland

#brilliant #contrast #dull #duty #speakers

George Bush, Dick Cheney, every one of the speakers praised John Kerry's war record. No one said he was unfit. They said he has terrible judgment, and that's his record as a senator. Nobody questioned his military record. ↗

— Peter King

#cheney #dick cheney #every #george #george bush

And we've also had now the speaker of the Parliament in Iraq using blatantly anti-Semitic remarks, saying the Jews and sons of Jews are the problem of all the violence that's in Iraq. ↗

— Jan Schakowsky

#anti-semitic #blatantly #had #iraq #jews

Bush is a very poor impromptu speaker. He does fine in small groups but when speaking without a script in front of large groups or answering questions he wasn't prepped for, he has problems. ↗

— Peter Schuyler

#bush #does #fine #front #groups

I do not separate Christ from God more than a voice from the speaker or a beam from the sun. Christ is the voice of the speaker. He and the Father are the same thing, as the beam and the light, are the same light. ↗

— Michael Servetus

#christ #father #god #i #i do

The relationship of the toastmaster to speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#attention #call #cover #dancer #effort

Or in other works I have also projected the sound in a cube of loudspeakers. The sound can move vertically and diagonally at all speeds around the public. ↗

— Karlheinz Stockhausen

#around #cube #diagonally #i #loudspeakers

Speakers are not supposed to waste time on platitudes, but the capacity of this generation for ignoring the obvious and concentrating on the negative and the obscure is immense. ↗

— Arthur Hays Sulzberger

#concentrating #generation #ignoring #immense #negative

The pure work implies the disappearance of the poet as speaker, who hands over to the words. ↗

— Stephane Mallarme

#hands #implies #over #poet #pure

Well, Mr. Speaker, if so many of these Iraqis are ready to come up and to provide the security, the police work in the country, then surely there should be no problem with putting American forces into the background instead of having them up front. ↗

— Marty Meehan

#background #come #country #forces #front