Speech Impromptu Quotes & Sayings

The best and most telling speech is not the actual impromptu one but the counterfeit of it. — Mark Twain

It was only in South Africa that I got over this shyness, though I never completely overcame it. It was impossible for me to speak impromptu. I hesitated whenever I had to face strange audiences and avoided making a speech whenever I could. Even today I do not think I could or would even be inclined to keep a meeting of friends engaged in idle talk. — Mahatma Gandhi

It is curious how inseparable eating and kindness are with some people. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

It takes a lot more to run a good business than just trailing commissions or kickbacks otherwise everybody would succeed, wouldn't they? — John Ilhan

It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. — Mark Twain

It has occured to Charlotte that men are full of petulant nonsense,and that their supposed strength is rather less than a girl's. — Sheila Kohler

There is also a CAN OF PEANUTS on the desk. Ha ha, oh DAD. You won't be falling for THAT one again any time soon.
A severe peanut allergy is a terrible affliction to cope with. — Andrew Hussie

It usually takes me two or three days to prepare an impromptu speech. — Mark Twain

In 1979 the New York Times reported that in many {New York Subway} stations, the signs are so confusing that one is tempted to wish they were not there at all - a wish that is, in fact, granted in numerous stations and on all too many of the subway cars themselves. — Simon Garfield

It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. Overnight success is a fallacy. It is preceded by a great deal of preparation. Ask any successful person how they came to this point in their lives, and they will have a story to tell. — Mark Twain

Sometimes we see what we want to, instead of what's in front of us. And sometimes, we don't see clearly at all. — Jodi Picoult

An atheist is a man who looks through a telescope and tries to explain what he can't see ... — Orlando Aloysius Battista

I basically get stereotyped a lot in terms of being a girl and writing 'chick' music for teenage girls or something. I think, if anything, the press kind of, because of my gender and my age, tends to kind of relegate my work to this sort of special-interest group. It's part of the cultural dynamic, I guess. — Ani DiFranco

We have to Build Bridges of Peace Instead of building Walls of Wars. — Widad Akreyi

We had an exercise in speech class in school, impromptu speaking, that I was always real good at. — John Mellencamp

I'm not too into the trends - I like to look at trends as suggestions, not as rules. — Bethany Mota

He was beautiful - a perfect specimen of a predator able to lure its prey by his appearance alone. — C.L. Parker