Amplified Orator Gifts

Reverse speech

"Of course he's smiling. He's getting $15,000 to give a lecture on free speech."

'To make sure I get noticed I always talk in a big bold typeface.'

William Pitt the Elder

'Just because you're smarter than me doesn't mean I can't always be right.'

'A 'pregnant pause' is effective only if you've already said something.'

'He'll be really p****d if he doesn't get nominated for an award this year.'

"In closing, let me tell you that never in the universe have I spoken before such an attentive audience."

Hallelujah!

"He says he's a Professor of Rhetoric but I'm not persuaded."

'Is not the evidence of the accussed, members of the jury, a earrage of evasion and lies Do bears, or do bears not shit, in the woods'

"Doctor, your speech was certainly unabridged."

"What Color Is Your Soapbox?"

"Tough group."

"Feel free to use it. It's an emergency escape hatch if you say something controversial."

George Frideric Handel

Little Jimmy Harmon: first to amplify the sparerib

'I'd like now to introduce Len who will tell slightly humourous stories in his inimicable self-serving way,'

Well spoken man.

A silenced protester

Marcus Tullius Cicero

"What she said - but louder, and with more authority."

"Imagine the treat as if you already have it."

Small media against information monopolies

Singer projecting her voice through a microphone.

Soap Box

J. Dudley - Statesman, orator, philanthropist, big deficit spender.

' Pol Meeting'

Protester

"...and now a few words from the class know-it-all."

"And let me be perfectly clear when I say teleprompters are a godsend!"

"My wife took up walkin' a mile a day five years ago. Haven't seen her since!" "Lucky son of a..."

Speaker