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Silence has a grammar all its own.
Speech is the resuscitation breath for living corpses and the water of life for those who want to live forever.
Silence is deep as Eternity, speech is shallow as Time.
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.
Dialogue is not just quotation. It is grimaces, pauses, adjustments of blouse buttons, doodles on a napkin, and crossings of legs
When speech comes from a quiet heart, it has the strength of the orchid, and the fragrance of rock.
Language is an anonymous, collective and unconscious art; the result of the creativity of thousands of generations.
Sometimes silence become the most excruciating sound; sometimes the mind becomes a musical symphony of clouded thoughts, questions and clarifications but the vocals fail to present the sound of conversation.
People talking without speaking,/ People listening without hearing ... Sounds of Silence.
Speech is the index of the mind.
Speech is great, but silence is greater.
Speech may be barren; but it is ridiculous to suppose that silence is always brooding on a nestful of eggs.
Silent words are heard through eyes.
when words make noise, silence can talk.
Until writing was invented, man lived in acoustic space: boundless, directionless, horizonless, in the dark of the mind, in the world of emotion, by primordial intuition, by terror.
Speech is a social chart of this bog.
We are all imprisoned by the dictionary. We choose out of that vast, paper-walled prison our convicts, the little black printed words, when in truth we need fresh sounds to utter, new enfranchised noises which would produce a new effect.
Silence is the speech of love, The music of the spheres above.
We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.
Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
The voices blend and fuse in clouded silence: silence that is infinite of space: and swiftly, silently the sound is wafted over regions of cycles of cycles of generations that have lived.
Speaking commits me Listening teaches me Silence tempers me Birth
Speech is like cloth of Arras opened and put abroad, whereby the imagery doth appear in figure; whereas in thoughts they lie but as packs.
Silence, when correctly timed, can speak multitudes of words to a person, without any extra effort on your part.
It was mortifying to find how strong the habit of idle speech may become in one's self. One need not always be saying something in this noisy world.
Of silence, I can say only what I have heard, that all things are known by that which they make or leave
and so speech isn't itself, but its effect, and silence is the same.
Each part
of speech a spark
awaiting redemption, each
a virtue, a power
in abeyance ...
Eyes are vocal, tears have tongues, And there are words not made with lungs
Speech is the golden harvest that followeth the flowering of thought.
Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a total coherent system of these integrating with each other, and with behavior, context, universe of discourse, and observer perspective.
A spoken language is a body, a living creature, whose physiognomy is verbal and whose visceral functions are linguistic. And this creature's home is the inarticulate as well as the articulate.
Spoken words have power beyond measure.
There are moments in Life when keeping silent becomes a fault, and speaking an obligation. A civic duty, a moral challenge, a categorical imperative from which we cannot escape.
The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter and a scarcity of words; for whosoever is a master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both.
Sometimes speech is no more than a device for saying nothing - and a neater one than silence.
I marshalled the words and opened my mouth, thinking I would hear them. But all I heard was a kind of rattle, unintelligible even to me who knew what was intended.
Words learn'd by rote a parrot may rehearse, But talking is not always to converse, Not more distinct from harmony divine The constant creaking of a country sign.
I found our speech copious without order, and energetic without rules
Silence is a language in itself. Perhaps the loudest and most beautiful of them all!
Spoken language is merely a series of squeaks.
the word silence is still a sound, to speak is in itself to imagine knowing; and to no longer know, it would be necessary to no longer speak
Silence fueled anxieties, gave them their true power. Expressing them aloud was a way of releasing that tension, of letting go, if only for a brief time.
Silence which in breaking up at dawn
will speak differently.
I utter what you would not dare think.
Words are the supreme objects. They are minded things.
Unencountered Language is the court and spark between words we recognize and those we don't.
Intended to serve as an introduction to both the linguistic and also the practical study of spoken English.
The totality of utterances that can be made in a speech community is the language of that speech community.
The spoken word is ephemeral. The written word, eternal. A symphony, timeless.
Utterance is the evidence of foregone study.
Every silence says something: the silence between words, between notes in music and between people.
Silence is a language not all people understand.
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
Volumes are spoken when nothing is being said.
is speech a subject's very constitution and assembly, which then makes experience possible.
Silence has its own language and in that silence he found words within himself; words for her, words for him and words for them.
We consider speech to be the result of thought (we have a thought, then select a sentence with which to express it), but thought also results from speech (as we grope, in words, toward meaning, we discover what we think).
Three silences there are: the first of speech, the second of desire, the third of thought.
Silence can be as irrepressible as laughter. And it can accumulate, like weightless snowflakes. It can collapse a ceiling. "I'm not sure," Julia said. Jacob
Silences can be as different as sounds.
I learnt silence from the talkative
silence can be words but words cannot be silence
The power of speech does not rely upon meaning. Words carry energy all by themselves. They vibrate through the air, with the intention of the speaker, shaping consciousness and touching hearts whether understood or not.
True Silence is really endless speech.
Silence is not broken by speech, but by the anxiety to be heard.
More is said in silences than words ever could.
Words give sound to the beauty of Life.
Thy silence, then that voices thee.
True, they were broken and stammering syllables; but they were human speech. My soul, conscious of new strength, came out of bondage, and was reaching through those broken symbols of speech to all knowledge and all faith.
Eloquence: saying the proper thing and stopping.
The task is to investigate speech sounds in relation to the meanings with which they are invested, i.e., sounds viewed as signifiers, and above all to throw light on the structure of the relation between sounds and meaning.
Speech belongs half to the speaker, half to the listener.
Words are only containers like a canvas holds a painting.
What's in the essence of the words you convey through the sound of your voice?
Silence is never-ending speech. Vocal speech obstructs the other speech of silence. In silence one is in intimate contact with the surroundings. Language is only a medium for communicating one's thoughts to another. Silence is ever speaking.
One disagreeable result of whispering is that it seems to evoke an atmosphere of silence, haunted by the ghosts of sound - strange cracks and tickings, the rustling of garments that have no substance in them, and the tread of dreadful feet that would leave no mark on the sea-sand or the winter snow.
Silence is a figure of speech, unanswerable, short, cold, but terribly severe.
Dialogue is a lean language in which every word counts.
You know There are moments when silence, prolonged and unbroken, More expressive may be than all words ever spoken.
Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes.
Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.
If you can call it talking, these clipped whispers, projected through the funnels of our white wings. It's more like a telegram, a verbal semaphore. Amputated speech.
We love to hear some men speak, though we hear not what they say; the very air they breathe is rich and perfumed, and the sound of their voices falls on the ear like the rustling of leaves or the crackling of the fire. They stand many deep.
Speech is the voice of the heart.
No more words. Hear only the voice within.
Well timed silence has more eloquence than speech.
Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
When we keep our silence we gather our power; when we speak we let loose the concentration of quiet reverie.
They're just words is all. Powerless. Vocabulary. Dialogue.
Words are merely utterances: noises that stand for feelings, thoughts, and experience. They are symbols. Signs. Insignias. They are not Truth. They are not the real thing.
When these incorrigible talkers are compelled to be quiet, is it not evident that they are not silent because they are listening to what is said, but because they are thinking of what they themselves shall say when they can seize the first lucky interval, for which they are so narrowly watching?
Thus, we see that one of the obvious origins of human disagreement lies in the use of noises for words.
Silence is sometimes more significant and sublime than the most noble and most expressive eloquence, and is on many occasions the indication of a great mind.
It is by speech that many of our best gains are made. A large part of the good we receive comes to us in conversation.
Think; they are not to be communicated. I have sometimes sat alone here of an evening, listening, until I have made the echoes out to be the echoes of all the footsteps
Speech is external thought, and thought internal speech.
Silence is also conversation.
Speech is silver, but silence is golden when hearers are inattentive.
Silence has a sound
Silence holds the door against the strife of tongue and all the impertinences of idle conversation.
Human speech is like a cracked tin kettle, on which we hammer out tunes to make bears dance when we long to move the stars.
Words either open dialogues or close minds.