It is better to leave your audience before your audience leaves you.
Audience Quotes
Sometimes when a speaker has the audience on the edge of their seats, they’re trying to muster up the nerve to get up and go home.
Many speakers confuse the seating capacity of the hall with the sitting capacity of the audience.
Each of us here, has a job to do in this hour. Mine is to talk and yours is to listen. My hope is that you will not finish your job before I finish mine.
I’ve always disliked following other speakers. Once I followed one who was so bad the audience was still booing him all the way through my speech.
When I get through with my speech, there’s usually a great awakening.
The audience was swell. They were so polite, they covered their mouths when they yawned.
To have great poets there must be great audiences too.
Maybe we should invite the audience to rehearsals. (on a joke in a play that tickled the production crew but always died in performance.)
Don’t be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also.
