Brooks Hays quotes

“Next to fried foods, the South has suffered most from oratory.”
-- Brooks Hays

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“Fill your mouth with marbles and make a speech. Every day reduce the number of marbles in your mouth and make a speech. You will soon become an accredited public speaker -- as soon as you have lost all your marbles.”
-- Brooks Hays

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“Every rock or molotov cocktail thrown should make a very obvious political point. Random violence produces random propaganda results. Why waste even a rock?”

“Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?”

“For me, I am left leaning when it comes to health and education, on the right when it comes to defense. So I don't know where I come on the political spectrum. And I think this the challenge that a lot of Jordanians have to deal with.”

“Political development should start at the grassroots.”

“The current political tension is very serious. We have not yet ruled out a boycott of the election.”

“We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.”

Source : Abigail Adams, John Adams, L. H. Butterfield, Marc Friedlaender, Mary-Jo Kline (1975). “The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784”, p.80, UPNE

“The nature of oratory is such that there has always been a tendency among politicians and clergymen to oversimplify complex matters. From a pulpit or a platform even the most conscientious of speakers finds it very difficult to tell the whole truth.”

“As poetry is the harmony of words, so music is that of notes; and as poetry is a rise above prose and oratory, so is music the exaltation of poetry.”

Source : Henry Purcell, Edward Taylor (1843). “King Arthur: an opera in 5 acts, written by John Dryden”, p.15

“The next day, she was silent. For breakfast, she murdered an onion and served it raw.”

“Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.”