Andre Gide Quotes

Sometimes people give away more by not saying something.

The inarticulate speak longest.

People are always giving you credit for really wanting to say more than you said.

A small silence came between us, as precise as a picture hanging on the wall.

In love, we worry more about the meaning of silences than the meaning of words.

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.

Scientists attach great importance to the human capacity for spoken language. But we also have a parallel track of nonverbal communication, which may reveal more than our carefully chosen words, and sometimes be at odds with them.

My husband doesn't know what my songs are about - even when they're about him. He's very British in that way. He doesn't ask, and he doesn't want to be told.

Often it is important to listen to what people aren't saying.

My father would often start to say something, then say 'Forget it.'

I don't enjoy hearing the sound of my voice. The most important things for me are impossible to articulate extemporaneously.

If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.

In terms of the secrets that imbue and underlie 'Fall on Your Knees', they were as much of a mystery to me as I was creating the story as they are to the readers.

If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.

There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound.

A lot of the stuff that I do with Betty is in the eyes. A lot of the feelings that I evoke with her are unspoken, so that's been fun to play with.

I think it's not about what you say; it's about what you don't say.

I'm always interested in how people use language to not say what they mean.

It is impossible to say all that we think, even to our truest Friend. We may bid him farewell forever sooner than complain, for our complaint is too well grounded to be uttered.

The experiences and feelings I have are starting to outweigh the words available to explain them.

I try to have a picture when I receive the ball and know where everyone is. That's one of the most important things for a midfielder.

I have had a lot of crushes but have never had the courage to go up to a girl and say what I feel. I am scared of rejection.

Sometimes our passion will motivate us to say things that can easily be misunderstood.

I do not want to have feelings that are just for me that I cannot express to other people. That frustrates me.

I think there's something very valid about having feelings that you can't articulate. I don't think you should shut those feelings out, but I also want to be able to communicate them.