Speech Communication Quotes

As long as you have a Cell Phone you're never alone — Stanley Victor Paskavich

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

For children who depend on mentally escaping into their minds to survive, imagination can become both refuge and desert island. — Na'ama Yehuda

The deepest of level of communication is not communication, but communion. It is wordless ... beyond speech ... beyond concept. — Thomas Merton

However they coped, children are not wrong to have learned to do what they could. — Na'ama Yehuda

I'm Valerie Rye,' she said, savoring the words. 'It's all right for you to talk to me. — Octavia E. Butler

Just as he was slowly bringing order to his own internal life, he would also bring order to his language. — David Brooks

It's far more important why is being said, than what. — Aleksandra Ninkovic

Unless I speak, you won't see me. — Marty Rubin

We're the most aggressively inarticulate generation to come along since, you know, a long time ago! — Taylor Mali

It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. — Mark Twain

It is not in vain that man speaks to man. This is the value of literature. — Henry David Thoreau

Words travel as swiftly as desire, so it is possible to send a message of love without them. — Laura Esquivel

Speech is one symptom of affection; and silence one; the perfect communication is heard of none. — Emily Dickinson

If the content of your speech is not authentic, talking or texting on a device doesn't mean you're communicating with another person. — Thich Nhat Hanh

We had lost the art of communication - but not, alas, the gift of speech. — Gordon Brown

To have much learning, to be skillful in handicraft, well-trained in discipline, and to be of good speech
this is the greatest blessing. — Gautama Buddha

Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I do not understand this man," [Tempi] said. "Is he attempting to buy sex with me? Or does he wish to fight? — Patrick Rothfuss

He used a minimum of words and no inflection whatsoever. It was a policeman's manner of speaking, direct and unadorned. — Davis Bunn

Clarity of thought is a must for brevity in speech. — Somali K Chakrabarti

Mend your speech a little, Lest you may mar your fortunes. — William Shakespeare

I found myself speaking more slowly (in an attempt to obey the Bible in speech), as if I was speaking French instead of English. — A. J. Jacobs

We speak not only to tell other people what we think, but to tell ourselves what we think. Speech is a part of thought. — Oliver Sacks

Men do not long continue to think what they have forgotten how to say. — C.S. Lewis

If some people say what is in their hearts and other people say what glides easily off the tongue, how can we talk to one another? — Madeleine Thien

Tears are a form of communication - like speech - and require a listener. — Erica Jong

But a public oration is an escapade, a non-committal, an apology, a gag, and not a communication, not a speech, not a man. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I wondered why humans were even given the gift of speech at all. We no longer needed it; we've forgotten to talk about anything. We only waste it. — Rasmenia Massoud

Self-consciousness kills communication. — Rick Steves

Silence is a form of communication. Speech divides us. — David Malouf

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. — Henry David Thoreau

Humans were denied the speech of animals. The only common ground of communication upon which dogs and men can get together is in fiction. — O. Henry

Speech was only a bag of tricks that fooled you into believing that you could see through the eyes of another being. — Amitav Ghosh