319 Quotes About Speaking

Likeness is not identity; orthographic projection is not orthography; drawing is not writing and architecture does not speak.

Spoken words are really only worth something in real life, and barely then.

She was a writer, yes, or had been once, and sometimes she could still be beautifully articulate.Other times, she simply could not find the right thing, or anything at all, to say.

„Cititul îl face pe om deplin, vorbirea îl face prompt, iar scrisul îl face exact.

The smallest number, strictly speaking, is Zero.

I have never lived anywhere but New York or New England, but there are times when I’m talking to you and I hit a Southern vowel, or a word gets caught in a Southern truncation, and I know it’s because I’m swimming in your cadences, that you permeate my very language.

Sometimes words I think are small come out big.

Nastiness devalues the speaker as well because the unwillingness to restrain the urge marks the speaker as less civilized, more animal-like.

Someone can speak with all the sincerity in the world, but with no truth.