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 difference between critics and audiences is that one is a group of humans and one is not.
Alas, how soon the hours are over Counted us out to play the lover! And how much narrower the stage Allotted us to play the sage! But when we play the fool, how wide The theatre expands! beside, How long the audience sit before us! How many prompters, what a chorus!
To sway an audience, you must watch them as you speak.
The best audience is intelligent, well-educated and a little drunk.
