Orator Gifts

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

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

'Did you teach him to speak?'

'I should have been a motivational squeaker.'

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

Speaker

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

"Doctor, your speech was certainly unabridged."

Soap Box

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

' Pol Meeting'

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

'I fully agree with both speakers.'

William Pitt the Elder

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

Nice speech, but you don't have that many friends. You better add "Romans and countrymen."

"What Color Is Your Soapbox?"

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

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

Projecting Obama

"I hope they read the fine print that the audiobook is to be voiced by Morgan Freeman."

'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'

"You must believe me, Jane. I have excellent narrative skills."

The Captain's a great storyteller. We call him "Narrative Hook"!

"Tough group."

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

Unreliable Narrator

Well spoken man.

Announcement

Inflated Biography

'...and so I say without fear of contradiction...'

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

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

Turkey missed the exit twice

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