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.

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.

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 Sky, I stopped thinking and started looking and listening. That’s when I realized winter was turning into spring before me....

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 that breaks me today, that stops me in my tracks before driving me forward, turning a corner, making something work,...

Almost nothing need be said when you have eyes.

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 to Mr. Omochi . Do you feel that things have thus been arranged?- What is certain is that if we...

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 many people have you listened to in Christ this week?

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.

Life is always speaking to us at every moment.

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 the poem.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 to picking up on political rhetoric.

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 to fix a car, butcher a deer, throw a spiral, talk to a lady, kill a Nip – from the...

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 a sorry one it was.

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

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.

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 weak, made a long journey into Greece to correct his manner of speaking. With far nobler themes, let us not...

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 – where greater love, one that forgives everything and never allows you to feel abandoned, once again enveloped me.

…they speak great swelling words of emptiness…

Think before you speak. Read before you think.

I love public speakers who give moving speeches—particularly if they bring boxes, packing tape, and dollies. The last local politician I heard speak was so moving that I took up residence in a new county.

It was always this way: The more people talked, the more they obscured. You didn’t need to argue for the truth. You could see it.

Communication is really a two-way process with listenining being as important as speaking. Enhancing one’s listening skills is therefore as important as enhancing one’s speaking skills.

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.

Better than learning how to speak a foreign language, is to start speaking the truth. But few people will listen, because they just don’t understand.

If your breath smells like coffee, I might try to drink our conversation. Wake me up with the words you’re speaking.

Then I wondered, what if?What if he kissed me? What if he told me I was beautiful? What if he told me he loved me?What would I say in return?

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.

Luz’s manner of speaking made it clear that she had no idea what she might say next. It wasn’t that she made things up, strictly speaking–only that facts were merely a point of departure for her.

It [speaking with words that bring about harmony] consists of speaking of what is good about people, instead of what is wrong with them. For some people this is an almost impossible exercise, for they have become totally habituated to speaking critically. We all seem to have a special talent for finding critical things to...

Roughly speaking, this hypothesis asks whether drug use causes some of the diseases officially associated with AIDS, such as immunodeficiency and Kaposi’s sarcoma.

A moment of truth is very powerful. Instead of smiling to be polite, just frown. Instead of laughing when you are nervous or uncomfortable, just speak your truth. Instead of acting like everything is all right, proclaim it isn’t alright, and talk about your feelings! Honor your truth. Honor yourself. Be real.