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.

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...

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.

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!

Utterances of cursed language defiles the hearts and souls of man and many.

We walked always in beauty, it seemed to me. We walked and looked about, or stood and looked. Sometimes, less often, we would sit down. We did not often speak. The place spoke for us...

Linguist say parties in the conversation will tolerate silence for four seconds before interjecting anything, however unrelated.

I’m sorry, but I don’t want to be an emperor. That’s not my business. I don’t want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone if possible; Jew, Gentile, black man, white....

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...

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

It transpired that Saddam Hussein was attempting to make some kind of speech or have some kind of discussion with the judge outside of what the judge had directly asked him,

Speech is the pen and the sword of humankind and it is the foundation of their kingdom. Wherever the flag of speech waves, the most powerful armies are. defeated and scattered. In the arenas in...

I came into the room, which was half dark, and presently spotted Lord Kelvin in the audience and realised that I was in for trouble at the last part of my speech dealing with the...

Speak English!” said the Eaglet. “I don’t know the meaning of half those long words, and, what’s more, I don’t believe you do either!” And the Eaglet bend down its head to hide a smile:...

Okay, let’s put this another way―if what you’re about to say wouldn’t look good permanently engraved on your tombstone, bite your tongue.

Not telling is just as interesting as telling I have found. Why speech, that short verbal journey from inside to outside can be excrutiating under certain circumstances is fascinating.

The thing he said aloud did not succeed.

No speech is ever considered, but only the speaker. It’s so much easier to pass judgement on a man than on an idea.

The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.

There is great worth in holding universal truths and timelessly beautiful words in your heart, which will stay there forever, infusing your thoughts and speech…

Abraham Lincoln wrote a poem about me once. You might know it as the Gettysburg Address. Men with beards are romantic.

Among leaders who have made the greatest impact through ages, I would consider Muhammad before Jesus Christ.

I would not be among you to-night (being awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine) but for the mentors, colleagues and students who have guided and aided me throughout my scientific life. I...

And what little she allowed herself to say was said in a strained tone, in which her ingrained timidity paralysed her tendency to freedom and audacity of speech.

I tended to do anything as long as it felt like an adventure, and to stop when it felt like work. Which meant that life did not feel like work.

enriched” by all this.

Right words are born in courage, which results from our struggle to make sense of our various predicaments. Cheer is what words are “trying to tell us/… It’s native to the words/and what they want...

They have a heckler’s veto over speech and content.

Failure gave me an inner security that I had never attained by passing examinations. Failure taught me things about myself that I could have learned no other way. I discovered that I had a strong...

People appear like angels until you hear them speak. You must not rush to judge people by the colour of their cloaks, but by the content of their words!

What is stealing?When is it excusable? When is it a crime?’ Thomas looked uncomfortable as he read. Christian perked up. Belle saw Christian listening with interest and looked down at her shoes. ‘An action becomes...

Human speech is like a cracked cauldron on which we bang out tunes that make bears dance, when what we want is to move the stars to pity

We don’t have no say, ‘cause we was an afterthought. He yanked us up out o’ man’s ribs, but He made man out the Earth. He made him out the dirt and the mud and...

As was the case for Nobel’s own invention of dynamite, the uses that are made of increased knowledge can serve both beneficial and potentially harmful ends. Increased knowledge clearly implies increased responsibility.