Verbal Quotes

Words are powerful.

Language is a form of organized stutter.

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

Speech is the index of the mind.

Neferet, you're nuttier than squirrel turds.

Speech is civilization itself.

Speech is the mark of humanity. It is the normal terminus of thought.

Speech is the mirror of the mind.

A compliment is verbal sunshine.

What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.

I don't like the act of talking; it makes me slightly light-headed.

Comedy is a group activity, a verbal orgy.

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

Old age is by nature rather talkative.

Arselicker!

I suppose you inevitably fall into habits of expression.

If you are not able to be silent, you will not be able to speak well.

One must talk. That's how it is. One must.

Words are all we have.

When you say words a lot they don't mean anything. Or maybe they don't mean anything anyway, and we just think they do.

The only thing you have to know are your words.

To talk to each other is but a more animated and an audible thinking.

Another way of verbally masking elite preemption of other people’s decisions is to use the word “ask”—as in “We are just asking everyone to pay their fair share.” But of course governments do not ask, they tell. The Internal Revenue Service does not “ask” for contributions. It takes.

Speak but one word to me.

Thought is made in the mouth.