Quotes about Speaker

The second speaker contributing to what we hear the gospels saying is the one that enables us to hear the story of Jesus as the story of Israel's God coming back to his people as he had always promised.

Language is not a human invention to be used in whatever way serves our interests. If God is the first speaker, then language is his creation. This means that our ability to speak was given to us by the Creator and it exists for his glory.

THIS BRINGS US NICELY to the third speaker in our sound system. Like the second one, this third one has often been turned up far too loud. This has meant both that the music it is quite properly trying to play has itself been distorted and that the music coming from the other speakers (apart from the equally distorted second one) has been overwhelmed. In much modern biblical scholarship, in fact, this one has often drowned out all the others.

At 25, I was in the audience of my first professional speaker, Bob Bales. His presentation got my attention. I had never seen anyone having so much fun 'at work' and getting paid for it!

Andy Andrews is the best speaker I have ever seen.

As a mother cannot forget the child of her womb, so a speaker cannot forget the child of his brain.

Barnabas they called Zeus, and Paul they called Hermes, because he was the chief speaker.

A career public speaker is not what I'm called to be. I'm called to be a critic.

The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief.

The emphasis was helped by the speaker's hair, which bristled on the skirts of his bald head, a plantation of firs to keep the wind from its shining surface, all covered with knobs, like the crust of a plum pie, as if the head had scarcely warehouse-room for the hard facts stored inside.

When both a speaker and an audience are confused, the speech is profound.

There is nothing more inspiring than a speaker who makes clear to his audience that he has need of them.