Extempore Speech Quotes & Sayings

Yes there were two great groups of dogs wrangling for the bitching-goddess: the group of the flatterers, those who offered her amusement, stories, films, plays: and the other, much less showy, much more savage breed, those who gave her meat, the real substance of money. The well-groomed showy dogs of amusement wrangled and snarled among themselves for the favors of the bitch-goddess. But it was nothing to the silent fight-to-the-death that went on among the indispensables, the bone-bringers. — D.H. Lawrence

The pictures we saw before we got down here didn't even touch the reality of what it is like being here. We can be right on the beach with all the devastation and still not be able to imagine what it was like when the wall of water actually came up. — Connie Sellecca

Control is not humble; control is arrogant. — Bryant McGill

I limbered up just a little before entering the stadium, and even so I felt a twinge in my thigh, no doubt the fruit of my imagination. And I went back to the massage room so that my faithful Morizot could take the trouble off my muscles. This soothed me considerably and I thought I was back to a normal state until somebody summoned me to the starting line. It was like feeling a blade go through my flesh. — Jules Ladoumegue

One of the major goals of health insurance reform is to bring down the cost. — Valerie Jarrett

Clinton has more important things to worry about. He not only risks being destroyed historically, like Afghanistan's Buddha statues; he also could end up going to jail. — Ed Koch

Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically. — Gary Oldman

And yet we are told that femininity is in danger; we are exhorted to be women, remain women, become women. It would appear, then, that every female human being is not necessarily a woman; to be so considered she must share in that mysterious and threatened reality known as femininity. Is this attribute something secreted by the ovaries? Or is it Platonic essence, a product of the philosophic imagination? Is a rustling petticoat enough to bring it down to earth? — Simone De Beauvoir

Stop giving the best part of you to those unworthy of that gift. — Carlos Wallace

Then you'd have found me pinned beneath a large metal pipe. — Vic Morrow

But curses are not real. Earth is all magma and continental crust and ocean. Gravity and time. Isn't it? — Anthony Doerr

She consumes me with her eyes, her fiery touch, and the ways in which she loves me. — T.H. Snyder

Idle words. From foolish people. — Brandon Sanderson

My grandmother is the person who inspires me the most. — Victoria Azarenka