319 Quotes About Speaking

Let them hear your voice so rarely that a simply-uttered word creates a hush of expectancy in the room.

To speak well is part of living well.

Writers and speakers whose words are usually not informative, funny, or thought-provoking are a waste of the ability to write or speak.

Twist a tongue, and tongue a twist how many twists can a tongue twister twist around the twisting tongue.

Our choice of words often reveal the depth of our knowledge … or ignorance … or that of our desire to be deemed knowledgeable.

You need to know the constituency you belong to...and that is revealed by your constituents. When your constituents are speaking in public and making of stories, your constituency can be "journalism".

If you speak, that is rain; if you speak too much, that is flood!

The only time I really feel the urge to compose myself it's when I'm writing or speaking.

God, He didn't write the scripts for the puny little players downhere.We wrote them ourselves-with each day we lived, each word we spoke,each thought we etched on our brains. And Momma had written herscript, too.And a sorry one it was.