Quotes About Speech Communication

#1. Music may be the activity that prepared our pre-human ancestors for speech communication and for the very cognitive, representational flexibility necessary to become humans.

Daniel J. Levitin

#2. Sometimes there are not the right words for my thoughts. Speech feels like it's not a natural way to communicate. This is when typing the words makes my thoughts come out easier.

Tina J. Richardson

#3. It's far more important why is being said, than what.

Aleksandra Ninkovic

#4. She had uttered these words simply in order to provoke a reply in certain other words, which she seemed, indeed, to wish to hear spoken, but, from prudence, would let her friend be the first to speak.

Marcel Proust

#5. We're the most aggressively inarticulate generation to come along since, you know, a long time ago!

Taylor Mali

#6. Just as he was slowly bringing order to his own internal life, he would also bring order to his language.

David Brooks

#7. However they coped, children are not wrong to have learned to do what they could.

Na'ama Yehuda

#8. 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

#9. Within speech, words are subject to a kind of relation that is independent of the first and based on their linkage: these are syntagmatic relations, of which I have spoken.

Ferdinand De Saussure

#10. 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

#11. What the dead had no speech for, when living,
They can tell you, being dead: the communication
Of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

T. S. Eliot

#12. 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

#13. Vocal rest is awesome. It is like any kind of fast. Firstly, it is a purification of speech. It made me realize how not careful I am with the things I say. It also makes you find new ways of communication and new methods to connect with people.

Matisyahu

#14. Tears are a form of communication - like speech - and require a listener.

Erica Jong

#15. Ordinary people who know nothing of phonetics or elocution have difficulties in understanding slow speech composed of perfect sounds, while they have no difficulty in comprehending an imperfect gabble if only the accent and rhythm are natural.

Alexander Graham Bell

#16. Speech is one symptom of affection; and silence one; the perfect communication is heard of none.

Emily Dickinson

#17. Man's first expression, like his first dream, was an aesthetic one. Speech was a poetic outcry rather than a demand for communication. Original man, shouting his consonants, did so in yells of awe and anger at his tragic state, at his own self-awareness and at his own helplessness before the void.

Barnett Newman

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. Linguist say parties in the conversation will tolerate silence for four seconds before interjecting anything, however unrelated.

Bill Bryson

#21. The deepest of level of communication is not communication, but communion. It is wordless ... beyond speech ... beyond concept.

Thomas Merton

#22. It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

Mark Twain

#23. Self-consciousness kills communication.

Rick Steves

#24. (If this goes on, all communication everywhere will be through text messages or computers, and direct speech between two people, without a machine, will be outlawed.)

Ray Bradbury

#25. Clarity of thought is a must for brevity in speech.

Somali K Chakrabarti

#26. 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

#27. Yet human experience and the practice of communication have shown throughout the ages that definitions are an illusion, like having a speech defect and trying to say love but unable to get the word out, or, better, having a tongue in one's head but unable to feel love.

Jose Saramago

#28. Followers of Christ are not called to be merely tolerant of others. We are called to love those who disagree with us. Abnormal communication - blessing those who curse us - establishes the relational level of our communication and demonstrates our concern for others.

Tim Muehlhoff

#29. I speak onstage to try to establish some method of communication. The songs are supposed to be a way of communicating. But speech and drinks and sometimes chocolates are also a way of communicating.

Jarvis Cocker

#30. We had lost the art of communication - but not, alas, the gift of speech.

Gordon Brown

#31. Right words are born in courage, which results from our struggle to make sense of our various predicaments. Cheer is what words are trying to tell us/ ... It's native to the words/and what they want us always to know/even when it seems quite impossible to do.

William Meredith

#32. [A digital snapshot] is meant primarily as a means of communication, and the images being sent are almost as ephemeral as speech, so rarely are they printed and made physical.

Geoffrey Batchen

#33. All noise is waste. So cultivate quietness in your speech, in your thoughts, in your emotions. Speak habitually low. Wait for attention and then you low words will be charged with dynamite.

Elbert Hubbard

#34. Mend your speech a little, Lest you may mar your fortunes.

William Shakespeare

#35. Lonnie's monotonous speech gives him an advantage, the same advantage foreigners have: his words are not worn out. It is like a code tapped through a wall. Sometimes he asks me straight out: do you love me? and it is possible to tap back: yes, I love you.

Walker Percy

#36. Speak Peace is a book that comes at an appropriate time when anger and violence dominates human attitudes. Marshall Rosenberg gives us the means to create peace through our speech and communication. A brilliant book.

Arun Manilal Gandhi

#37. As long as you have a Cell Phone you're never alone

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#38. Men do not long continue to think what they have forgotten how to say.

C.S. Lewis

#39. 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

#40. He used a minimum of words and no inflection whatsoever. It was a policeman's manner of speaking, direct and unadorned.

Davis Bunn

#41. To communicate is truly a gift. It is a wondrous ability of your amazing human body, the ability that allows us to connect with other humans to give meaning to our lives. I will argue that it is what makes us human.

Kathleen Depperschmidt

#42. Wisdom does not only reflect itself in a person's knowledge of what to say. It appears also in his knowledge about how to say it and when it should be said!

Israelmore Ayivor

#43. Your skull encloses your brains. But never forget that anytime you open your mouth to talk, you have opened your mind for the entire world to see what is hidden in there!

Israelmore Ayivor

#44. Before you write - remember that every speech has something of 'you' in the writing. Don't take that away when you write. Be yourself. Be comfortable in your own skin.

Phil Collins

#45. I'm Valerie Rye,' she said, savoring the words. 'It's all right for you to talk to me.

Octavia E. Butler

#46. 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

#47. It is not in vain that man speaks to man. This is the value of literature.

Henry David Thoreau

#48. Let there be but two occasions for speech - when the subject is one which you thoroughly know and when it is one on which you are compelled to speak. On these occasions alone is speech better than silence; on all others, it is better to be silent than to speak.

Isocrates

#49. Unless I speak, you won't see me.

Marty Rubin

#50. Writing seems to rob me of my being: it is a second hand mode of communication, a pallid, mechanical transcript of speech, and so always at one remove from my consciousness.

Terry Eagleton

#51. It's a useful rule in Anglo-American communications that the English should double, and the Americans halve, the number of words they would normally employ.

Phyllis Bentley

#52. Silence is a form of communication. Speech divides us.

David Malouf

#53. Words travel as swiftly as desire, so it is possible to send a message of love without them.

Laura Esquivel

#54. For children who depend on mentally escaping into their minds to survive, imagination can become both refuge and desert island.

Na'ama Yehuda

#55. 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

#56. 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

#57. I do not understand this man," [Tempi] said. "Is he attempting to buy sex with me? Or does he wish to fight?

Patrick Rothfuss

#58. That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed and cursed with instant communication? We should not fight fire with fire, threats with threats.

Timothy Garton Ash

#59. The distinction between "magick" and "communication" exits only in our traditional ways of thinking. The uncanny Egyptians attributed both inventions to a single deity, Thoth, god of speech and other illusions.

Robert Anton Wilson

#60. I formed several possible stories out of her speech, formed them at once, so it was less like I failed to understand than that I understood in chords, understood in a plurality of worlds.

Ben Lerner

#61. Speech was only a bag of tricks that fooled you into believing that you could see through the eyes of another being.

Amitav Ghosh