Welcome
Welcome to this site which features videos of well-known speeches alongside transcripts of the speeches. The site is for people who:
- enjoy listening to speeches
- want inspiration or ideas
- learn English and want to see exact transcripts
- want to know more about our recent history,
- are addicted to Youtube
- want an easy place to find out if someone really said something!
Let’s start!
- Groucho Marx: “Duck Soup” (1933)
- Mary Schmich: Wear Sunscreen (1997)
- Orson Welles: The Third Man (1949): The Cuckoo Clock Speech
- Ratatouille (2007): The Critic’s Job
- Mike Rowe: Dirty Work
- Arthur Hugh Clough (poet): ‘Say not the struggle naught availeth’
- George Bush: Axis of Evil
- Admiral William H. McRaven: Commencement Address, University of Texas at Austin, 2014
- Tim Minchin: Address to University of Western Australia
- Lady Gaga: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell: “Prime Rib” Maine 2010