Speech Quotes

No point in ignoring the truth. Doesn’t make it worse to have it said out loud.

Stephenie Meyer

Touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first language and the last, and it always tells the truth.

Margaret Atwood

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

Mark Twain

Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.

William S. Burroughs

Everyone knows how to talk, and no one knows what to say.

Nick Hornby

I quote others only in order the better to express myself.

Michel de Montaigne

A word is dead when it`s been said,
some say.
I say it just begins to live
that day.

Emily Dickinson

The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend.

Chuck Palahniuk

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.

Stephen King

Well done is better than well said.

Benjamin Franklin

Sometimes the facts in my head get bored and decide to take a walk in my mouth. Frequently this is a bad thing.

Scott Westerfeld

The unspoken word never does harm.

Lajos Kossuth

If conversation was the lyrics, laughter was the music, making time spent together a melody that could be replayed over and over without getting stale.

Nicholas Sparks

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.

Plato

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

Mark Twain