
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
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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