#speaking

My speaking style was criticised by no less an authority than Arnold Schwarzenegger. It was a low moment, my friends, to have my rhetorical skills denounced by a monosyllabic Austrian cyborg. ↗

— Boris Johnson

#arnold schwarzenegger #austrian #authority #criticised #denounced

Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business. ↗

— Eddie Bernice Johnson

#been #business #care #child #country

Just several years ago, Shaykh Kabbani, who is the head of the Islamic Supreme Council of America, when he was speaking at the State Department, said that more than 80 percent of the mosques were controlled by extremists. And from all I've seen over the last four or five years, the situation has even gotten worse. ↗

— Peter King

#america #controlled #council #department #even

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 don't know why men are so fascinated with television and I think it has something to do with - if I may judge from my own father, who used to sit and stare at the TV while my mother was speaking to him - I think that's a man's way of tuning out. ↗

— Garry Shandling

#father #him #i #i think #judge

When I travel, I love speaking to women around the world about the things that inspire them, the fashions they like, what makes something good and what would make it even better. ↗

— Maria Sharapova

#around #better #even #fashions #good

Australia is properly speaking an island, but it is so much larger than every other island on the face of the globe, that it is classed as a continent in order to convey to the mind a just idea of its magnitude. ↗

— Charles Sturt

#classed #continent #convey #every #face

Generally speaking, life is so rich and full of variety; you have to remember all the time that there is a comical side to everything. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#full #generally #life #remember #rich

I've received some English-speaking scripts, but I was not interested in them. ↗

— Audrey Tautou

#i #interested #not interested #received #scripts

I believe, in a funny way, the job of the novelist is to be out there on the fringes and speaking for an experience that has not really been spoken for. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#believe #experience #fringes #funny #funny way