Flighty Orators Gifts

"I'm so nervous! I feel like you're all in my stomach."

"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

'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.'

"I seem to have forgotten what I was saying...please...hold the applause!"

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

He did special exercises to stay calm during his evaluation.

"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'

"What Color Is Your Soapbox?"

"Doctor, your speech was certainly unabridged."

'Sorry sir, the 'No Steak and Lobster Jokes' sign just came on.'

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

Mile high skydivers

"You won't be needing that book, young lady!"

'Except for that, how did the experimental plane perform?'

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

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

"Pastor, we think it's time for your sabbatical."

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

"We seem to be out of gas. I'm outa here! See you on the ground."

"With your rhetorical skills, young man, do you realize that you could become a mogul?"

' Pol Meeting'

Soap Box

'Unaccustomed as I am, to public speaking...'

"We are dropping your column. Many readers think you're just to extreme."

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

Speaker

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

"There's that frantic thumping noise again."