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.
Audience Quotes
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.
It is better to leave your audience before your audience leaves you.
Sometimes the difference between a good speaker and a poor speaker is a comfortable nap.
My conception of the audience is of a public each member of which is carrying about with him what he thinks is an anxiety, or a hope, or a preoccupation which is his alone and isolates him from mankind; and in this respect at least the function of a play is to reveal him to […]
It’s not whether you really cry. It’s whether the audience thinks you are crying.
I remember being asked to address a state association meeting of funeral home directors. Now, that is a unique group of people. As I entered the auditorium, it was evident the evening was intended to be a formal and possibly ‘dead’ affair. Everyone was dressed in black-and-white formal attire. I stood there wondering what my […]
