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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
Some of the most healing words in any language are, "I'm sorry. Will you forgive me?" How much more we need that confession to our Father in heaven.
— Billy Graham
The American constitutions were to liberty, what a grammar is to language: they define its parts of speech, and practically construct them into syntax
— Thomas Paine
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
Sign language is the equal of speech, lending itself equally to the rigorous and the poetic, to philosophical analysis or to making love.
— Oliver Sacks
All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
It's freeing, to think that there's always an aspect of us outside the grasp of speech, the common stuff of language.
— Mark Doty
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
Language becomes a prison house only poets can escape ... if we do not reject any strict distinctions between ordinary usage and figures of speech.
— Arthur Quinn
Nobody is capable of of free speech unless he knows how to use language, and such knowledge is not a gift: it has to learned and worked at. [p.93]
— Northrop Frye
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
[T]he accumulation of things not spelled out, not properly articulated, may result in neurosis.
— Joseph Brodsky
That your power of command
with simple language was
one of the magnificent things of
our century.
(from the poem: result) — Charles Bukowski
with 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
[Lat., Verba togae sequeris.] — Aulus Persius Flaccus