A great speech is literature.
More Quotes from Peggy Noonan:
Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.Peggy Noonan
Remember the waterfront shack with the sign Fresh Fish Sold Here. Of course it's fresh, we're on the ocean. Of course it's for sale, we're not giving it away. Of course it's here, otherwise the sign would be someplace else. The final sign Fish.
Peggy Noonan
Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are.
Peggy Noonan
More was needed in terms of sending a US military presence into New Orleans.
Peggy Noonan
The most moving thing in a speech is always the logic. It is never flowery and flourishes. It is not sentimental exhortation, it is never the faux poetry we're all subjected to these days.
Peggy Noonan
Great speeches have always had great soundbites. The problem now is that the young technicians who put together speeches are paying attention only to the soundbite, not to the text as a whole, not realizing that all great soundbites happen by accident...
Peggy Noonan
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Literature Quotes, Speech Quotes'Battle For The Planet Of The Apes', was just a film for kids and didn't have any deep meaning.
J. Lee Thompson
Whenever I think of the past, it brings back so many memories.
Steven Wright
Good FBI officers are not noticeable. You would never look at them.
Ridley Scott