If you're a preacher, you talk for a living, so even if you don't make sense, you learn to make nonsense eloquently. Download Download Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Rotate quotes eloquently learn live
Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have. Andrew Young moralpower Change image and share on social
Influence is like a savings account. The less you use it, the more you've got. Andrew Young accounthaveinfluence Change image and share on social
There is a sense in which the United States ambassador speaks to the United States, as well as for the United States. I have always seen my role as a thermostat rather than a thermometer. So I'm going to be actively working... for my own concerns. I have always had people advise me on what to say, but never on what not to say. Andrew Young activelyadviseambassador share on social
It is only when you watch the dense mass of thousands of ants, crowded together around the Hill, blackening the ground, that you begin to see the whole beast, and now you observe it thinking, planning, calculating. It is an intelligence, a kind of live computer, with crawling bits for its wits. Lewis Thomas antbeastbegin share on social
If I'm serious, yes, I'd like to have done what Shakespeare did... to act and write. You learn so much from acting. One of our great writers, Alan Bennett, does both supremely well. When I write a story, I tend to speak it aloud as I'm writing it. Michael Morpurgo actalanaloud share on social
I felt so out of place at the Miss India pageant. I had just come back from America, and I was told I needed to lose my American accent and learn the Queen's English, so I had to enunciate my vowels and speak well and eloquently. Giving up a New York accent is pretty hard. Priyanka Chopra accentamericaamerican share on social