Quotes of Impromptu - somelinesforyou

“ I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks. ”

- Winston Churchill

“ In the World War nothing was more dreadful to witness than a chain of men starting with a battalion commander and ending with an army commander sitting in telephone boxes, improvised or actual, talking, talking, talking, in place of leading, leading, leading. ”

- J. F. C. Fuller

“ Having a plan on paper does nothing to protect us,... Next month is too late. The United States is woefully unprepared for this, and we must get started immediately. ”

- Tom Harkin

“ A committee is a group of the unprepared, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary. ”

- Fred Allen

“ A committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing, but who, as a group, can meet and decide that nothing can be done. ”

- Fred A. Allen

“ The very best impromptu speeches are the ones written well in advance. ”

- Ruth Gordon

“ He has come to symbolize how unprepared this administration was for this disaster, fairly or unfairly. ”

- Stephen Hess

“ It's a great opportunity to be together apart from celebrating Indian cinema. ”

- Amitabh Bachchan

“ Hope for the best, expect the worst. Life is a play. We're unrehearsed. ”

- Mel Brooks

“ Offhand, the only North American writers I can think of who have come from a background of rural poverty and gone on to write about it have been Negroes. ”

- Alden Nowlan

“ It is completely improvised. We have had no meetings backstage, we have not written anything, and everything you see onstage tonight is being made up on the spot. ”

- Amy Poehler

“ A good many observers have remarked that if equality could come at once the Negro would not be ready for it. I submit that the white American is even more unprepared. ”

- Martin Luther King Jr.

“ And thus, what can we do, Poor rose and poet too, Who both antedate our mission In an unprepared season? ”

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“ Reading is a mere makeshift for original thinking. ”

- Arthur Schopenhauer

“ Impulse without reason is not enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift. ”

- William James

“ Most of the time I'm thinking, I'm glad that scene was improvised. ”

- Larry David

“ All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts… ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life. ”

- Frances Cornford

“ It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. ”

- Mark Twain

“ The best impromptu speeches are the ones written well in advance. ”

- Ruth Gordon
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