Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.
When I give a lot of speeches, they're always on the fly. I mean, I know what I'm going to say roughly, but I do not - will not read.
My audience is going to die before I do.
Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.
I don't want to spend the rest of my life giving speeches.
Hubert, a speech doesn't have to be eternal to be immortal.