Top Speakers Quotes
Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught.
Sydney J. Harris
One of the terrific aspects of MIT in those days was the enormous variety of experimental work that either took place there or was talked about in seminars by outside speakers aggressively recruited by the faculty.
Robert B. Laughlin
All the English speakers, or almost all, have difficulties with the gender of words.
Bernard Pivot
One of the speakers asked how many women had been harassed or abused sexually in their life? There were thousands of women in the audience, and almost every one of them raised her hand.
Cheryl James
Many after-dinner speakers remind us that to err is human.
Frances Rodman
All Speakers Quotes
Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught.
Sydney J. Harris 
60% of people like this quote
One of the terrific aspects of MIT in those days was the enormous variety of experimental work that either took place there or was talked about in seminars by outside speakers aggressively recruited by the faculty.
Robert B. Laughlin 
60% of people like this quote
All the English speakers, or almost all, have difficulties with the gender of words.
Bernard Pivot 
57% of people like this quote
Many after-dinner speakers remind us that to err is human.
Frances Rodman 
56% of people like this quote
One of the speakers asked how many women had been harassed or abused sexually in their life? There were thousands of women in the audience, and almost every one of them raised her hand.
Cheryl James 
56% of people like this quote
Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.
Jonathan Swift 
54% of people like this quote
There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us. Otherwise, you know, why not just come out and say it?
Barbara Ehrenreich 
52% of people like this quote
The attitude of independence toward a constructed language which all national speakers must adopt is really a great advantage, because it tends to make man see himself as the master of language instead of its obedient servant.
Edward Sapir 
51% of people like this quote
I haven't spoken English with native speakers in several months. I've been speaking Arabic.
John Walker Lindh 
51% of people like this quote
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