Wit and puns aren’t just decor in the mind; they’re essential signs that the mind knows it’s on, recognizes its own software, can spot the bugs in its own program.

A crime scene is a silent witness that speaks louder and clearer than any human. Just ask Helen Keller.

One never said the things one wanted — one remembered them all an hour afterwards. On the other hand one usually said a lot of things one shouldn’t, simply from a sense that one had...

There’s nothing worthless about being wordless, it will only save your mouth from talking gibberish.

Don’t bother to argue anything on the Internet. And I mean, ANYTHING…. The most innocuous, innocent, harmless, basic topics will be misconstrued by people trying to deconstruct things down to the sub-atomic level and entirely...

monkey mind,” which is more often than not swinging wildly from branch to branch on intellectual and emotional trees. On the way back down the hiking trail after my encounter with the hawk in Big...

I fill my life with speech, but not with people who are truly listening.

Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something outside himself-like, for instance, he can’t find any clean socks.

That speaking the words, even if true, had little power to change the inevitable or even make him feel much better.

It is too sad . I must speak to him- The do you really ?- Sure . How can you expect things to get better , if we do not speak?- Earlier , you talked...

Speaking to people does not have the same personal intensity as listening to them. The question I put to myself is not ‘How many people have you spoken to about Christ this week?’ but ‘How...

Together me and Amy are Jaramy. Pearl Jam wrote a song about us speaking in class.

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

when i speak to youi speak as thoughi am offering a rosein your hand.

Life is always speaking to us at every moment.

We can’t change the world by shouting, but our words can have meaning if we give them enough respect.

Twist a tongue, and tongue a twist how many twists can a tongue twister twist around the twisting tongue.

God will not punish you when you speak your mind, because he speaks through you if he truly lives in you.

The day I realized I could speak well, I decided I won’t speak for myself anymore.

Anything said is gone as soon as it leaves my lips. Things written down at least have a chance to leave a soft echo of what had been.

Turn the fan off when I’m talking. It not only makes my words colder, but it distorts and dilutes what I’m saying.

Day 72I remember oranges and you don’t mind me leaving the queue momentarily to find some. When you say, Of course, you reach for my arm in sympathy and recognition. This may be the thing...

Almost nothing need be said when you have eyes.

I cannot speak truth without poetry, because truth is beauty.

Had we not pursued the hydrogen bomb, there is a very real threat that we would now all be speaking Russian. I have no regrets.

Don’t talk sign language and masturbate at the same time. Not unless you’re translating a Presidential State of the Union address.

Aber sie hat immer mit mir geredet, als wäre ich jemand. Und das, verstehen Sie, das macht einen ganz neuen Menschen aus einem.

People tend to take things spoken as a joke seriously and things spoken seriously as a joke.

I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.

I believe that poems are a score for performance by the reader, and that you become the speaking voice. You don’t read or overhear the voice in the poem – you are the voice in...

My mouth is often wounded by my sharp words, so sometimes when I’m out in public, I’ll wear a large Band Aid over my lips.

Criticize me if you can, but that won’t stop me from saying what i like, my mouth is mine, and not yours.

Choosing with integrity means finding ways to speak up that honor your reality, the reality of others, and your willingness to meet in the center of that large field. It’s hard sometimes.

Speak as educated nature suggests to you, and you will do well, but let it be educated and not raw, rude, uncultivated nature. Demosthenes took unbounded pains with his voice, and Cicero, who was naturally...

I am becoming morbidly obese as we speak. So what’s the solution? To stop talking.

It’s become my brand in a way, you know, speaking the truth even though it was not politically correct.

Thought before word. Never word before thought.

…they speak great swelling words of emptiness…

Think before you speak. Read before you think.

I sympathize with a mother who has three mouths to feed—especially if two of those mouths are on her face. With a woman like that I’d listen twice as hard for doublespeak. I’m pretty accustomed...

Men believe that they are accomplishing something by speaking speak in a different way from men who believe that speaking is a waste of time. Bobby Shaftoe learned most of his practical knowledge – how...

God, He didn’t write the scripts for the puny little players downhere.We wrote them ourselves-with each day we lived, each word we spoke,each thought we etched on our brains. And Momma had written herscript, too.And...

I think it’s important for scientists to speak in their own voices and not just be mediated by journalists or others speaking for them.

Words can express true feelings, true emotions and wisdom. It is up to you to use them wisely… Choose your words carefully and express the peacefully!

sideways” comes out straight.

I have always been on speaking terms with God, especially now. God and I just had a few weeks of silence. ‘Tis over now.

If I went back to college again, I’d concentrate on two areas learning to write and to speak before an audience. Nothing in life is more important than the ability to communicate effectively.

My voice is raspy like raspberries. Can you taste what I’m saying?

I believe, in a funny way, the job of the novelist is to be out there on the fringes and speaking for an experience that has not really been spoken for.

Simply having the courage to say senseless things made me euphoric. I was free, with no need to seek or to give explanations for what I was doing. This freedom lifted me to the heavens...