Eloquent Quotes

Please don't refer to me as "channeling Mark Twain." I'm an actor. Not a channeler. That word is an iPhone shortcut. Acting is more eloquent than that.

The orator puts off his individuality, and is then most eloquent when most silent. He listens while he speaks, and is a hearer along with his audience.

Whom has not the inspiring bowl made eloquent? [Lat., Foecundi calices quem non fecere disertum.]

It is one thing to be eloquent and charming in profane speech, and another when the one speaking as a religious.

A generous spirit is as eloquent in acknowledging benefits as it is bounteous in bestowing them.

Senator Barack Obama is a gifted and eloquent young man who I think can do great things for our country.

Decision has greater virtue and force if taken after there has been eloquent dissent.

Just to hear President Obama speak - he's eloquent, he's so classy.

The talkative man speaks from his mouth, the eloquent man speaks from his heart.

I consider the opportunity to bear witness to the eloquent beauty of Baikida's music a distinct honor. Baikida Carroll is polarized; poised; at a matchless point between lyricism and fire.

Yet has not Man wept at the sounds? And are not his tears eloquent understanding?

Pharoahe Monch is like an eloquent linguistics professor moonlighting as a rhyme serial killer terrorist, challenging the listeners' I.Q. while daring him or her to keep up.

How frustrating it is to be out-argued by someone you know is dead wrong but is more eloquent.

in came ... a baby, eloquent as infancy usually is, and like most youthful orators, more easily heard than understood.

Enthusiasm is very catching, especially when it is very eloquent.

And long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is well -- but 'tis not true!

One would think that the record of already existing regulatory agencies is sufficiently eloquent in showing that it is Big Business that does the regulating rather than vice versa .

When I write fiction, I create characters whose views are not my own, and I allow them to be eloquent in defense of their, not my, views.

Only begin, and you will become eloquent of yourself.

In an easy cause anyone can be eloquent; the slightest strength is enough to break what is already shattered.

The subject is said to have the property of making dull men eloquent.

I think what attracts me about the Electric Monk is that it's such an eloquent example of the futility of belief for belief's sake. I mean there's only any point in believing something if it's true.

His eyes, I’d long since discovered, could be as eloquent and expressive as his pen. The messages they sent me now hardly seemed decent for a public setting.

You are as eloquent as ever, Mat," Egwene said dryly. "Do you still have your pet fox?" "I do," Mat said. "He's snuggled up nice and warm.

The life of a good man is at the same time the most eloquent lesson of virtue and the most severe reproof of vice.

Nima Shirazi is a rare voice of rational analysis and political insight that provides an eloquent counter to the pervasive absurdities that make up popular political discourse.

I don't know very many people who can piece together eloquent prayers when their souls are wounded. Words don't come at those times, but tears do. I have always thought of my tears as prayers.

Perhaps the most eloquent of the hard virtues is courage, the disposition to encounter adversity head-on and strive to overcome it.

a silent night. - the most eloquent poem i have ever read.

Meaningful prayer is a matter of the heart, not the eloquence of the words.

A dull speech which is full of truths is much more brilliant than an eloquent speech which is full of lies!

Morning Joe was boring. Scarborough is neither eloquent nor funny.