| "To sway an audience, you must watch them as you speak." »C. Kent Wright |
| "It isn't kind to cultivate a friendship just so one will have an audience." »Lawana Blackwell |
| "If all the world's a stage, then where is the audience sitting" »Unknown |
| "The best audience is intelligent, well-educated, and a little drunk." »Alben William Barkley |
| "Shall I crack any of those old jokes, master, At which the audience never fail to laugh" »Aristophanes |
| "God is a comic playing to an audience that's afraid to laugh." »Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire |
| "God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh." »Voltaire |
| "Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience of 4000 critics." »Mark Twain |
| "Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the president' s spouse. I wish him well" »Barbara Bush |
| "The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction." »Michael Faraday |
| "The power of illustrative anecdotes often lies not in how well they present reality, but in how well they reflect the core beliefs of their audience." »Barbara Mikkelson |
| "In the world's audience hall, the simple blade of grass sits on the same carpet with the sunbeams, and the stars of midnight." »Rabindranath Tagore |
| "One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then." »Henry David Thoreau |
| "You may use different sorts of sentences and illustrations before different sorts of audiences, but you don't -- if you are wise -- talk down to any audience." »Norman Thomas |
| "When I am asked, What do you think of our audience I answer, I know two kinds of audiences only--one coughing, and one not coughing." »Arthur Schnabel |
| "It requires wisdom to understand wisdom the music is nothing if the audience is deaf." »Walter Lippmann |
| "When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe" »Quentin Crisp |
| "Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening." »Dorothy Sarnoff |
| "We are born at the rise of the curtain and we die with its fall, and every night in the presence of our patrons we write our new creation, and every night it is blotted out forever and of what use is it to say to audience or to critic, 'Ah, but you should have seen me last Tuesday'" »Michel MacLiammir |
| "I made some mistakes in drama. I thought the drama was when the actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries." »Frank Capra |
| "It is not really difficult to construct a series of inferences, each dependent upon its predecessor and each simple in itself. If, after doing so, one simply knocks out all the central inferences and presents one's audience with the starting-point and the conclusion, one may produce a startling, though perhaps a meretricious, effect." »Frederick Douglas |
| "Age to me means nothing. I can't get old I'm working. I was old when I was twenty-one and out of work. As long as you're working, you stay young. When I'm in front of an audience, all that love and vitality sweeps over me and I forget my age." »George Burns |
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