Top 273 Speakers Quotes & Sayings

My persona is less miserable than a lot of contemporary poetry speakers are.

Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

I love good, loud speakers.

I love blasting good music on the Bluetooth speakers through my phone.

Generally, TED speakers are believers in the scientific method.

I'm always blowing the speakers out in studios, like, there's smoke coming out of them. I found out that I'm not built for studio monitors. I record and mix down everything in the headphones and then I bring it to the speakers.

Staying with empathy we allow speakers to touch deeper levels of themselves.

I'm the queen of outside speakers.

For the great speakers, it's all about the audience. And the feeling they have is that they're giving a gift, of maybe knowledge or inspiration or motivation.

The prevailing attitude of the speakers was one of heavy disagreement with a number of things which the reader had not said.

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

People are making a lot of music and higher and higher quality. I can't say the same thing for how people are listening to music. People are hearing music through terrible speakers, little computer speakers, there's a lot to get back to in terms of hi-fi and people listening to better quality, technically better quality music.

Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.

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.

We try to preach innovation. We provide resources; we invite speakers in from universities to talk about new ideas.

All the English speakers, or almost all, have difficulties with the gender of words.

Language does not stand still. Surprisingly, despite this knowledge, most speakers are fearful of change.

Women are not children. We are not fragile little birds who can't cope with jokes, works of art, or controversial speakers.

If pluralism and academic freedom are to be used to defend liberal speakers and ideas, they ought to be equally valid for conservative views.

I love tearing people's speakers up.

Ultimately, the best speakers are the ones who have put 10,000 hours into listening.

UCLA acknowledged this shift by bringing in Alex Haley (the co-author of The Autobiography of Malcolm X) and Eldridge Cleaver (Soul on Ice) as speakers.

I trust microphones, speakers and recordings less and less, and no longer buy into the idea that I can recreate at home, or in my earphones, the experience of hearing live acoustic instruments. The orchestra is already a set of speakers that react differently to each player, each room and each concert - it's that high level of uncertainly and unrepeatability that I like. The music is just soaked into the walls of a room straight from the instruments - and it's a one-off deal. The alternative - left speaker, right speaker - is kind of a compromise.

Dolby was in the driver's seat. "Surround Sound" was added. Now we had three speakers behind the screen, two more on the left side of the theater, and two on the right. A closely guarded secret about all this is that you hear the correct balance only if you're sitting in the center of the theater. On the left or right side, those speakers tend to dominate.

Speakers find joy in public speaking when they realize that a speech is all about the audience, not the speaker. Most speakers are so caught up in their own concerns and so driven to cover certain points or get a certain message across that they can't be bothered to think in more than a perfunctory way about the audience. And the irony is, of course, that there is no hope of getting your message across if that's all the energy you put into the audience. So let go, and give the moment to the audience.

If you don't uphold your legal responsibility to enforce the First Amendment, to provide speakers with platforms and audiences with safe, the ability to listen to speakers of all different kinds, agnostic ideology, if you don't do that as a university, you are not performing your essential function.

The biggest mistake made by emerging speakers is that they discount their own experience.

A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers.

Lyrics are weak, like clock radio speakers.

If money is a form of speech, as the Supreme Court has regrettably found, rich donors will always be the loudest speakers.

We cannot be speakers who do not listen. But neither can we be listeners who do not speak.

I haven't done the profoundly impactful work many TED speakers have.

Yes, Vajpayee and Advani are very clever speakers, but that does not mean everything they say is true.

Free speech isn't dead in Germany and Italy, merely the speakers.

It(Boston Bombings) was worth it to hear you(survivor speakers) speak.

if there's one thing consistent about language it is that it is constantly changing. The only languages that do not change are those whose speakers are dead.

Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.

I don't have smart speakers in the house because I have a thing about whether they are recording our conversations.

English has always been a mongrel tongue, snapping up words from every continent its speakers encountered.

Some of the speakers we bring on campus may not reflect official church teaching, but that's how it is.

Jim Rohn is outstanding! He is among the most polished, professional speakers in America, with a message everyone should hear.

Do you ever see a right-wing kid violently jumping lefty speakers? On campus, you either have silent appeasement or a bruise.

[On Italian:] One may almost call it a language that talks of itself, and always seems more witty than its speakers.

When I first started, all I had was the laptop and some cheap headphones. I ain't have no speakers. You know, no Rocket speakers or no MPC. No keyboard, none of that. It just was the laptop and the headphones. Going from there, it just teaches you a lot.

Above all, translators must be native speakers. It’s not because they speak the language better – I understand that sometimes a foreigner can learn a language better than native speakers. It has more to do with intimate knowledge of the society for which the book is being translated.

You can buy $20,000 speakers, but put them in a room that's not right, and it sounds terrible. If you buy $20 speakers and put them in a room that's tuned right, it'll sound great.

The best speakers are the ones who have put 10,000 hours into listening.

The choosing among words is made by every user of the language, and not exclusively by professional speakers and writers.

Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught.

I listen to a lot of TED talks and motivational speakers.

Kids now are so used to surround sound and the power in theater speakers, that the concert hall is a disappointment to them.

Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.

'Translations Through Speakers' was literally, I'm translating very spottily what my aspirations are.

There are only two types of speakers in the world. 1. The nervous and 2. Liars.

Those of you who have spent time with Australians know that we are not given to overstatement. By nature we are laconic speakers and by conviction we are realistic thinkers.

All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Great speakers are not born, they're trained.

I really like the Budda head with a big Orange cabinet with Celestion 30 speakers and my '63 Fender Telecaster.

A bottomless pit of violence, a Tower of Babel where all are speakers and no hearers.

The vitality of language lies in its ability to limn the actual, imagined and possible lives of its speakers, readers, writers.