The Eloquent Orator Gifts

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

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

"Hello, my name is Karl and I'm addicted to speaking to small groups of strangers."

William Pitt the Elder

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

"Sucker!" / "Stirrer!"

'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.

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

Four Score and seven years ago...

"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?"

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

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

Well spoken man.

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

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

Soap Box

Turkey missed the exit twice

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

' Pol Meeting'

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

"He can't stop digressing."

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

"I'm speaking with you this evening without the benefit of speech-writers or teleprompters. Thank you and good night."

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

Big Speech

Wake up, Don. You're TED talking in your sleep again.

Speaker

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

'Did you teach him to speak?'