Top 100 Quotes About Speaking Words
#1. Remember this, posting pictures are like speaking words, you cannot take them back.
John Patrick Hickey
#2. Why is an actor's unintentional giggling called a 'corpse'? It seems to me quite the opposite. It proves that he's very much alive, and can still tell how silly this all is: him dressed up as someone else speaking words written by a third party.
Antony Sher
#3. I advocate speaking words of love with all the sincerity that can be mustered, as frequently as possible.
Mary Anne Radmacher
#4. Because of my voice, speaking words which had been carefully chosen, women had used money they had set aside for other purposes to buy war bonds.
Kate Smith
#5. Our words will either bring life and victory or death and destruction. If we want to be happy, we have to be serious about speaking words of life that line up with God's Word.
Joyce Meyer
#6. People never mean to do thingd that are hurtful, yet sometimes it just happens, through an intense moment, through brief rationalization, or by simply speaking words that only belong inside one's head.
Jessica Sorensen
#7. And then sometimes, rarely, in the middle of the night, he'd be sweet. Pulling me into his lap, kissing me, caressing me. Letting me fly but anchoring me with his eyes. Speaking words he'd never dare say in the light of day.
Laurelin Paige
#8. People generally express more in between their sentences when they're not speaking. Words are usually there to disguise who someone is or what they're feeling.
Heath Ledger
#9. She had spoken it; but she trembled when it was done, conscious that her words were listened to, and daring not even to try to observe their effect.
Jane Austen
#10. What you do teaches faster, and has a lasting impression, far beyond what you say.
T.F. Hodge
#11. So, when there is a strife of tongues, at some meeting, the chairman, to obtain unity, suggests that every one shall speak in French. Perhaps it is bad French; French may not contain the words that express the speaker's thoughts; nevertheless speaking French imposes some order, some uniformity.
Virginia Woolf
#12. It seems to me that the soul, when alone with itself and speaking to itself, uses only a small number of words, none of them extraordinary.
Paul Valery
#13. And who threw it, then?" continued Rosine, speaking quite freely the very words I should so much have wished to say, but had no address or courage to bring it out: how short some people make the road to a point which, for others, seems unattainable! "That
Charlotte Bronte
#14. I worked it through with pride,I almost spoke without words, and i'm masterly at speaking without words.All my life I have spoken without words, and I have passed through whole tragedies on my own account without words
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#15. In other words, Foxx represented what Sarah Palin (speaking at a campaign fundraiser in Greensboro three weeks before the election) called "the real America," by which she did not mean fallow farms and disability checks and crack.
George Packer
#16. If God's words determine reality, then of all the things a pastor does, speaking the words of God to the congregation is the most important.
Carl R. Trueman
#17. Tiny and I are sitting with a table full of Drama People, and they are discussing Tiny Dancer, all of them speaking more words per minute than I speak in a day.
John Green
#18. Put a bridle on thy tongue; set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy thy peace ... on much speaking cometh repentance, but in silence is safety.
William Drummond
#20. Get in the habit of speaking positive, faith-filled words over your life, because a healthy self-image is one of the greatest assets you can have. It will not only cause you to rise higher, but it will inspire others around you to live at their best.
Victoria Osteen
#22. A thousand words blossomed to her lips and died there, because no amount of speaking could communicate the depths of how he'd affected her. Of how he'd changed her.
Katherine McIntyre
#23. It was too sweet a moment to ruin by speaking mere words. Happiness was the bright blue moon, beaming amidst the bright stars of smiles that enveloped their countenances.
Sonali Dabade
#24. What I do when speaking in public is trying to do it as best as possible and trying to make everybody comfortable with my words. Sometimes getting this is very difficult, but I try my best.
Andres Iniesta
#25. Twitch doesn't say much. He doesn't need to. You know that saying actions speak louder than words? His actions are speaking for him. And I like what they're saying. I wonder if he'll let me keep him.
Belle Aurora
#26. Speaking unspoken words,
music is a good way to say.
Toba Beta
#27. Frankenstein's monster speaks: the computer. But where are its words coming from? Is the wisdom on those cold lips our own, merely repeated at our request? Or is something else speaking? - A voice we have always dreamed of hearing?
Karl Schroeder
#28. That's politics, power: it's all verbal, a continuous blizzard of words. But it's not just speaking, it's making statements. It's action; it's doing something without doing anything.
Harry Mulisch
#29. Libby wasn't a big talker - Michelle and Debby seemed to hog all her words. She made pronouncements: I like ponies. I hate spaghetti. I hate you. Like her mother, she had no poker face. No poker mood. It was all right there. When she wasn't angry or sad, she just didn't say much.
Gillian Flynn
#30. To hear men talk of metonomies, metaphors, and allegories, and other grammar words, would not one think they signified some rare and exotic form of speaking? And yet they are phrases that come near to the babble of my chambermaid. And
Michel De Montaigne
#31. Beware what you speak,' said the Merlin very softly, 'for indeed the words we speak make shadows of what is to come, and by speaking them we bring them to pass, my king.
Marion Zimmer Bradley
#32. When Gypsy was older, after she became Gypsy Rose Lee, I think she was both proud and slightly ashamed of her Seattle roots. She worked very hard to rid her voice of any trace of a local accent, cultivating an affected way of speaking that sounded as if she pinned the ends of her words.
Karen Abbott
#33. It is possible to have words come to your mind, and still refrain from speaking them aloud.
Orson Scott Card
#34. Earnest in practicing the ordinary virtues, and careful in speaking about them, if, in his practice, he has anything defective, the superior man dares not but exert himself; and if, in his words, he has any excess, he dares not allow himself such license.
Confucius
#35. Once in his life - Laurent got only two words out before the man simply did what most people wanted to do when speaking with Laurent: he hit him.
C.S. Pacat
#36. The devil take these people and their language! They take a dozen monosyllabic words in their jaws, chew them, crunch them and spit them out again, and call that speaking. Fortunately they are by nature fairly silent, and although they gaze at us open-mouthed, they spare us long conversations.
Heinrich Heine
#37. He understands why people hold hands: he'd always thought it was about possessiveness, saying This is mine. But it's about maintaining contact. It is about speaking without words. It is about I want you with me and don't go.
Cassandra Clare
#38. Constantly speaking positive words (affirmations) to our children ... will help lead them down the road to success. Speaking negative words to them ... will help lead them down the road to failure.
Timothy Pina
#39. He used a minimum of words and no inflection whatsoever. It was a policeman's manner of speaking, direct and unadorned.
Davis Bunn
#40. All stories are true, Astrea. By speaking them aloud, we bring them to life. Once words mingle with breath and sound, they become something new and alive.
Hilary Thompson
#41. If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand ... But until we find this new way of speaking, until we can find a nonapproximate vocabulary, nonsense words are the best thing we've got. Ifactifice is one such word.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#42. They didn't need the words, if they were willing to be silent long enough to learn to speak without them.
Maggie Stiefvater
#43. Speaking of the motto of the New York Times, "All the news that's fit to print:" It is hard to think of any group of seven words that have aroused more newspaper controversy.
Gerald W. Johnson
#44. As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#45. No words would ever be more powerful than the presence of a friend.
Rachel L. Schade
#46. Those who mouth your sacred words with an accent you deem wrong annoy you more than those speaking something you cannot understand.
Thomm Quackenbush
#47. I didn't understand him. I mean, he was speaking English, and I understood the words, but I was confused. "What do you mean? What are you doing?
Gayla Twist
#48. There are some people who could hear you speak a thousand words, and still not understand you. And there are others who will understand - without you even speaking a word.
Yasmin Mogahed
#49. Scripture is God speaking. Though the words they'd read had been penned more than a thousand years earlier, still God spoke in the reading of those words. Jesus held them accountable for the words of Scripture as if God Himself had spoken those words directly to them!
James R. White
#50. And this right here is what love is. It's not hurried and rushed, not lies and deceit. It's tender and giving, honest and trusting. It's the value of actions speaking louder than words.
Tiffany Aleman
#51. The likelihood is that any English-speaking skier has more words for different types of snow than any inhabitant of Alaska or Greenland.
Larry Trask
#52. A thought can be cast down by speaking out loud words of resistance and words of God.
Sunday Adelaja
#53. Then others for breath of words respect,
Me for my dumb thoughts, speaking in effect.
William Shakespeare
#54. If you think of feelings you have when you are awed by something - for example, knowing that elements in your body trace to exploded stars - I call that a spiritual reaction, speaking of awe and majesty, where words fail you.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#55. When I went to Los Angeles right after high school, I got some acting jobs, and I never, ever wanted to be an actress! Public speaking and acting make me want to vomit. But I have never been nervous singing. When it comes to public speaking, I stumble on my words, sweat, and pull at my clothes.
Kelly Clarkson
#56. If we believe the Canon is closed and Scripture is sufficient, then we believe God is not speaking new words apart from Scripture.
Dan Phillips
#57. Speaking the words aloud so they would exist in the world and begin to become real.
Augusten Burroughs
#58. Not so, however, with books, for books cannot change. A thousand years hence they are what you find them to-day, speaking the same words, holding forth the same cheer, the same promise, the same comfort; always constant, laughing with those who laugh and weeping with those who weep.
Eugene Field
#59. To speak of "mere words" is much like speaking of "mere dynamite.
C.J. Ducasse
#61. Psychoanalysis wants to heal with words and speaking, but sometimes with speaking, you realize nothing.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
#62. We can't change the world by shouting, but our words can have meaning if we give them enough respect.
Evan Meekins
#63. It's funny how that works. Sometimes not speaking says more than all the words in the world. Sometimes my silence is saying I don't know how to speak to you. I don't know what you're thinking. talk to me. Tell me everything you've ever sad. All the words. Starting from your very first one.
Colleen Hoover
#64. The words 'fairy tales' must accordingly be taken to include tales in which occurs something 'fairy,' something extraordinary - fairies, giants, dwarfs, speaking animals.
Joseph Jacobs
#65. why talk and say the unsaid words in haste when silence can speak the unspoken words?
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#67. We live in an era where the best way to make a dent on the world may no longer be to write a letter to the editor or publish a book. It may be simply to stand up and say something ... because both the words and the passion with which they are delivered can now spread across the world at warp speed.
Chris Anderson
#68. Love is appreciating, complimenting, feeling gratitude, and speaking good words to others.
Rhonda Byrne
#69. Your Words Are Vital, They Rule You And You Rule With Them Therefore, Speak Creative Words Always!
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#70. Tell me everything it explains, he said when he could remember how to speak. Being forced to move moist flaps of meat in order to form the words felt sensual and obscene.
James S.A. Corey
#71. In a way fighting was just like using magic. You said the words, and they altered the universe. By merely speaking you could create damage and pain, cause tears to fall, drive people away, make yourself feel better, make your life worse.
Lev Grossman
#72. The speaker catches fire
looking at their faces.
His words
jump down to stand
in listener's places.
Langston Hughes
#73. To creative people, the compendium of the white man's dialect are unfashionable, because their creations are more than what the tongue could say.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#74. I might've found a way to cure them." Crystal said in a jumble of words.
"Cure them? Permanently?"
"Yes sir."
He thought about this a moment before speaking, "You've got two weeks, can you do it by then?"
"That's plenty of time sir, thank you.
Julia Barkey
#75. I don't like, speaking about the movie, if I may say couple more words, I like a movie that doesn't drag too much, unless it's purpose. I like a movie with an action with a certain pace. If it's too monotone, I hate it. No, I don't hate it, I just don't like it, period.
Tommy Wiseau
#76. In my experience, the words "now just calm down" almost inevitably have the opposite effect on the person you are speaking to.
Elyn R. Saks
#77. Think about rethinking what you're thinking, before speaking the thought you were thinking, and cause unintended consequences for speaking what you probably shouldn't have been thinking.
T.F. Hodge
#78. It takes just a step to show the other side of you that you never wanted to show. It takes just a word to start the words you never wanted to say. It all begins with something and it all starts somewhere. Mind the starting point and note the beginning.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#79. We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#80. Words are in a way our godly sharing in the work of creation, and the speaking and writing of words is at once the most human and the most holy business we engage in.
Frederick Buechner
#81. Men and women may speak the same language, but we interpret words differently.
Pamela Cummins
#82. All of us are born with a set of instinctive fears - of falling, of the dark, of lobsters, of falling on lobsters in the dark, of speaking before a Rotary Club, and of the words "Some Assembly Required".
Dave Barry
#83. People should think of their words like seeds. They should plant them, then let them grow in silence. Our old people taught us that the earth is always speaking to us, but that we have to be silent to hear her.
Kent Nerburn
#84. He didn't speak much but the little he said kept me busy.
Peter Akinti
#85. I have a fear of public speaking. It's very hard work. Words are not my skill, and because they're not my skill, I have to work doubly hard.
Kerry Stokes
#86. God, He didn't write the scripts for the puny little players down
here.
We wrote them ourselves-with each day we lived, each word we spoke,
each thought we etched on our brains. And Momma had written her
script, too.
And a sorry one it was.
V.C. Andrews
#87. Why do you give me good advice?"
asked Laurent.
Isn't that why you brought me with
you? Instead of speaking those words
aloud, Damen said, "Why don't you take
any of it?
C.S. Pacat
#88. It is time to put down the pen; time to clear the throat. Speaking is a different thing altogether from writing. The spoken word has different properties, and different powers. If I have learned anything from writing down my own tale, it is this.
Dexter Palmer
#89. The Written Word is a Fairy, as mocking and elusive as Willy Wisp, speaking lying words to us in a feigned voice. So let all readers of books take warning!
Hope Mirrlees
#90. We thought speaking in English meant you were more intelligent. We were wrong of course. It does not matter what language you choose, the important thing is the words you use to express yourself.
Malala Yousafzai
#91. If I may use such a word when I am speaking of religious subjects, it is by voice and words that men 'mesmerize' each other. Hence it is that the world is converted by the voice of the preacher.
Frederick William Faber
#92. Men are so sure of themselves, and they have such courage and conviction. They believe-truly believe- that they can make things happen just by speaking the words, and in many cases they can.
Lisa See
#93. It's a funny thing, because I think that my mother and I may finally be speaking the same language. But somehow, now words don't seem as necessary
Gayle Forman
#94. And when we speak we are afraid
our words will not be heard
nor welcomed
but when we are silent
we are still afraid
So it is better to speak
remembering
we were never meant to survive
Audre Lorde
#95. He understood why people held hands: he'd always thought it was about possessiveness, saying This is mine. But it wasn't. It was about maintaining contact. It was about speaking without words. It was about I want you with me and Don't go.
Cassandra Clare
#96. I was learning that the best conversations consisted of keeping quiet and listening, and speaking, when one spoke at all, in words of a single syllable.
Alan Bradley
#97. Not Speaking has no reflection on what is being thought on the inside, being a non-verbal person with Autism in my early years I've come to value words, they shouldn't be wasted nor abused they should be cherished used positively and productively.
Paul Isaacs
#98. O it is a happy thing to feel ourselves helpless and naught, for then the presence of God is felt to wrap us about so lovingly! Everlasting, infinite, almighty, these are the words that strengthen us with speaking them.
William Mountford
#99. I enjoyed writing. Perhaps it was because I hardly heard the sound of my own voice. My written words were my voice, speaking, singing, ... I was there on the page
Jenny Moss
#100. Genuine good taste consists in saying much in few words, in choosing among our thoughts, in having order and arrangement in what we say, and in speaking with composure.
Francois Fenelon
