We no longer have a sufficiently high estimate of ourselves when we communicate. Our true experiences are not garrulous. They could not communicate themselves if they wanted to: they lack words. We have already grown...

Pull yourself together, Detective. You’re embarrassing yourself, and more imprtant, you’re embarrassing me.””They’re going to do it outside. In public.””So the fuck what?””Public,” Peabody said, head still between her knees.”You’re being honored by this department...

It’s the words we whisper to ourselves that make us who we are.

… she had uttered these words simply in order to provoke a reply in certain other words, which she seemed, indeed, to wish to hear spoken, but, from prudence, would let her friend be the...

Not how it is meant. Law is defined by its effect rather than its intention, and its chief affect his accusation, the intimation of less-than.

Be a craftsman in speech that thou mayest be strong, for the strength of one is the tongue, and speech is mightier than all fighting.

Self-consciousness kills communication.

Speech is the voice of the heart.

Holly steps back. Being warned about a ghost and seeing him are not the same. ‘What did they do to you?’Some of the Anchorites laugh. Hugo looks back at his long-ago lover. ‘They’-he looks about...

I really look forward to that insane hour that we spend together. I really do.

Sometimes it’s not what you say, Valkyrie, it’s just the fact that you’re saying it.

Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we have to shout.

Speech is a rolling-mill that always thins out the sentiment.

All that they lacked was the gift that descended upon the chosen disciples at Pentecost, in tongues of flame; symbolizing, it would seem, not the power of speech in foreign and unknown languages, but that...

The word covers a much wider range of speech than threats. It goes beyond the cyber-stalking that proponents were worried about.

We are tired of running , tired of traveling. It is time for us to be together in a world where your kind of evil does not exist.” Lucan growled at her, but she continued,...

Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.Almost everything–all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure–these things...

Not being able to read and write music is not the same as being illiterate in speech and writing.

Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.

Everyone has their own ways of expression. I believe we all have a lot to say, but finding ways to say it is more than half the battle.

Once the people have been deluded into believing that speeches and voting are the only acceptable tools by which to affect change in their nation, those who are in control no longer need to worry...

I now know that I have a speech that’s going to go down in the annals of American presidential campaigns,

Speech is the resuscitation breath for living corpses and the water of life for those who want to live forever.

He stopped, feeling lonely in his long speech.

Stage fright is very common and could be overcomed through step by step processes, but stuttering is a fright that takes time to conquer.

Don’t exercise your freedom of speech until you have exercised your freedom of thought.

Yawns are not the only infectious things out there besides germs.Giggles can spread from person to person.So can blushing.But maybe the most powerful infectious thing is the act of speaking the truth.

Men do not long continue to think what they have forgotten how to say.

that your power of commandwith simple language wasone of the magnificent things ofour century.(from the poem: result)

The essence of America – that which really unites us — is not ethnicity, or nationality or religion – it is an idea — and what an idea it is: That you can come from...

He never labored so hard to learn a language as he did to hold his tongue, and it affected him for life. The habit of reticence — of talking without meaning — is never effaced.

cadence, n.I have never lived anywhere but New York or New England, but there are times when I’m talking to you and I hit a Southern vowel, or a word gets caught in a Suthern...

Why question what Froi of Lumatere was doing here?’ he asked.’ When you should be questioning what would have happened to Charyn if he hadn’t been here. Who else would have saved Gargarin of Abroi...

When he spoke, his words came with a confusion which was delightful to hear because one felt that it indicated not so much a defect in his speech as a quality of his soul, as...

Whether or not an utterance can be called law depends on how it is heard, not on how it is meant. Law is defined by its effect rather than its intention, and its chief effect...

We’re the most aggressively inarticulate generation to come along since, you know, a long time ago!

Baseball is to our everyday experience what poetry often is to common speech — a slightly elevated and concentrated form.

You don’t have to explain something you haven’t said.

Speech is the gift of all, but the thought of few.

Where the bodily presence is weak and the speech contemptible, surely there cannot be error in making written language the medium of better utterance than faltering lips can achieve?

The woman spoke with a heavy western North Carolina accent, which I used to discredit her authority. Here was a person for whom the word ‘pen’ had two syllables. He people undoubtedly drank from clay...

What constitutes an American? Not color nor race nor religion. Not the pedigree of his family nor the place of his birth. Not the coincidence of his citizenship. Not his social status nor his bank...

[T]he truth is that fullness of soul can sometimes overflow in utter vapidity of language, for none of us can ever express the exact measure of his needs or his thoughts or his sorrows; and...

Sound has a profound effect on the senses. It can be both herd and felt. It can even be seen with the mind’s eye. It can almost be tasted and smelled. Sound can evoke responses...

In my speech I condemned all violence, even the suicide bombings, and I told all Muslims it’s about time we stopped all these things and paused to think and do something that is much more...

A dull speech which is full of truths is much more brilliant than an eloquent speech which is full of lies!

I’d been rejected, but I was still in love, so I decided to start over.

I guess we speak pretty loosely, don’t we, about looking forward to the Ashes and all that—and we are, but it’s not with both eyes. We’ve got one eye on that and one eye on...

A synonym is a word you use when you can’t spell the other one.

Have you lost it, as they say? Yesterday Amikam Cohen delivered a highly persuasive speech about how expensive regulation is, and I agreed with most of what he had to say. It is also bad...