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Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.
— Bela Lugosi
Thought and speech are inseparable from each other. Matter and expression are parts of one; style is a thinking out into language.
— John Henry Newman
We live at the level of our language.
— Ellen Gilchrist
All talk is small talk.
— Marty Rubin
Good talkers are people who use interesting language and have a lot of energy in speech and who also listen.
— Grace Paley
...language is sacred. It has glory, even in ordinary speech. The way most people use it, it's like a winged horse pulling a junk wagon.
— Robert K. Tanenbaum
Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain beauty.
— Muriel Barbery
Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.
— Gustave Flaubert
Touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first language and the last, and it always tells the truth.
— Margaret Atwood
I distrust speech therapy. Words are the language of lies and evasions. Music cannot lie. Music talks to the heart.
— Alasdair Gray
Just as he was slowly bringing order to his own internal life, he would also bring order to his language.
— David Brooks
It is only through the radical defile of speech that we fall into the illusion that language is a register of conscious construction
— Lacan Jacques
Language is in decline. Not only has eloquence departed but simple, direct speech as well, though pomposity and banality have not.
— Edwin Newman
It is hard to say anything as true as saying nothing.
— Marty Rubin
In speech he stretched out his vowel sounds to give his mouth a rest before the next consonant.
— Diane Setterfield
I feel like a failure." The expression comes so naturally that we forget it is a figure of speech: the language of business applied to the soul.
— Scott A. Sandage
When speech is divorced from speaker and word from meaning, what is left is just ritual, language as ritual.
— Ellen Goodman
Speech happens to not be his language.
— Madame De Stael
What cannot be said above all must not be silenced but written.
— Jacques Derrida
The totality of utterances that can be made in a speech community is the language of that speech community.
— Leonard Bloomfield
Your inner voice whispers, but speaks the loudest.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
I've always felt, even as a songwriter, that the rhythm of speech is in itself a language for me.
— Cyndi Lauper
Language is neither reactionary nor progressive; it is quite simply fascist; for fascism does not prevent speech, it compels speech.
— Roland Barthes
Sometimes, a word succeeds beyond the wildest dreams of its creators, like a virus sent into the world to infect common speech.
— Jasper Fforde
All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.
— Alfred North Whitehead
The thing he said aloud did not succeed.
— Tony Burgess
{28:11} For with the speech of lips and with a different language, he will speak to this people. {28:12}
— The Biblescript
I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier.
— Howard Nemerov
Unless I speak, you won't see me.
— Marty Rubin
Speech is the best show a man puts on.
— Benjamin Lee Whorf
Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language.
— Roman Jakobson
However great one's gift of language may be, there is always something that one cannot tell.
— Mary MacLane
My language! heavens!I am the best of them that speak this speech. Were I but where 'tis spoken.
— William Shakespeare
I don't like jokes in speeches. I do like wit and humor. A joke is to humor what pornography is to erotic language in a good novel.
— James C. Humes
Words travel as swiftly as desire, so it is possible to send a message of love without them.
— Laura Esquivel
The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I could displace the mystery of my speech onto writing, the latter perhaps recharging the former
— Ben Lerner
Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words.
— Robert G. Ingersoll
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
— William Penn
Words are the weak support of cold indifference; love has no language to be heard.
— William Congreve
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[T]he accumulation of things not spelled out, not properly articulated, may result in neurosis.
— Joseph Brodsky
That your power of commandwith simple language was
one of the magnificent things of
our century.
(from the poem: result) — Charles Bukowski
Poetry is one of the destinies of speech ... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
— Gaston Bachelard
You follow words of the toga (language of the cultivated class).[Lat., Verba togae sequeris.] — Aulus Persius Flaccus
