Next to fried foods, the South has suffered most from oratory.

Next to fried foods, the South has suffered most from oratory.

Next to fried foods, the South has suffered most from oratory.

A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail... Fluency, grace, logical order, and the like, are merely the decorative surface of oratory.

The sense of war, the extraordinary bravery of the Allied armies, the numbers, the losses, the real suffering that disappears in time and commemorative oratory, are not marked out in any red guidebook of the emotions, but they are present if you look.

Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.

In oratory the will must predominate.

The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.

Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory.

Yeats was 18th-century oratory, almost.

Medical debts are the number-one cause of bankruptcy in America.

I still want to be as approachable and relatable as possible - when I meet fans and they're crying, I'll say, 'Calm down, there's nothing to cry about.'

I, personally, do not consider myself to be some kind of Holy Mary of feminism.

You only get one chance at life and you have to grab it boldly.

The happiest lot for a man, as far as birth is concerned, is that it should be such as to give him but little occasion to think much about it.

I go into my workroom seven mornings a week. There will only be one or two mornings a week where it seems to be going well, but to earn those days you have to go through slow, slodgy days where your mind feels like porridge.

All terrorism is theater.

We asserted ourselves as a music community, and showed legislators that music is positive. Especially if you've sold 300 million records worldwide and pay taxes.

There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.

Its been an incredible odyssey to make the journey from a vibrantly healthy person to someone with a chronic illness.

A good writer can set a thriller anywhere and make it convincing: the trick is to evoke the setting in such a way that it highlights the crime or unsettles the reader.

We're not trying to make you less of a man. We just want you to love us as deeply and as wholesomely and as fully as we love you.

Doing 'Malcolm and Eddie' was probably the foremost miserable years of my life.

If I started worrying about how my constituents are going to react to every move I make, I wouldn't be able to do my job here. I'll do what I think is right and explain it later.

The future will either be green or not at all.

In a democracy there is a centralization of governmental power in a simple majority.

I have had a very difficult time with stage fright; it undermines your well-being and peace of mind, and it can also threaten your livelihood.

There is a lot of my childhood in 'The Sandcastle Girls.'

'I Am Number Four' is a great story about a guy who's trying to find his destiny and figure out who he is and his identity.

Be stronger than your excuses.

I don't like to sugarcoat. I don't like to say things without feeling it. I like to get to the point and say exactly what I'm talking about.

To pray rightly you must make God your hope stay and all. Right prayer sees nothing substantial or worth being concerned about except God.

People were so keen to get investment. In those days, there was quite significant unemployment in Northern Ireland, and that had been the general pattern in Northern Ireland for many, many years.

Survivor has been such a hit, and out of that have come so many interesting stories from people that we don't see on the big screen. We have helped make them incredible celebrities.