I didn’t play with other children.
Karl LagerfeldBut let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
Khalil GibranLet me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.
Samuel JohnsonThe language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Henry David ThoreauHalf the world is composed of people who have something to say and can’t, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
Robert FrostI exaggerate when I’m angry, but I’ve never gone around telling people things that aren’t true about me.
Joe BidenNever ask anyone over 70 how they feel. They’ll tell you.
George H. W. BushI like being around people.
LeBron JamesThe secret of being a bore… is to tell everything.
VoltaireThe single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
George Bernard ShawI have a family, loving aunts, and a good home. No, on the surface I seem to have everything except my one true friend. All I think about when I’m with friends is having a good time. I can’t bring myself to talk about anything but ordinary everyday things. We don’t seem to be able to get any closer, and that’s the problem.
Anne FrankSometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.
David ByrneBefore a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.
H. L. MenckenThe most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.
Theodore RooseveltYou have to be careful about how much you reveal to people that look up to you so much.
Lady GagaI’m grateful for the opportunities God gave me to minister to people in high places; people in power have spiritual and personal needs like everyone else, and often they have no one to talk to.
Billy GrahamThe American public’s a lot more sophisticated than we all give them credit for. And on complicated issues, I’m going to give them straight answers. And if it takes more than three minutes, I’m going to do it.
Joe BidenThe essence of lying is in deception, not in words.
John RuskinPart of what confuses people in times of upheaval is that you’re getting so many different points of view and directions and so and so, how to do this and do that. And a lot of it is written in a language that honestly most people cannot understand.
Alice WalkerThe right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
Mark TwainWhen you have good friends you’ve been around, every time they talk, you don’t give them your full attention. You don’t look them in the eye and stop. Half the time, you’re listening, half the time, you are ignoring them.
Matthew McConaugheyI never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.
Harry S. TrumanThe secret to the movie business, or any business, is to get a good education in a subject besides film – whether it’s history, psychology, economics, or architecture – so you have something to make a movie about. All the skill in the world isn’t going to help you unless you have something to say.
George LucasWhat I have never been afraid of is to be a little silly, and you can engage people that way. My view is, first you get them to laugh, then you get them to listen.
Michelle ObamaMy mom and my dad were both very sociable, meeting lots of interesting people.
Bill GatesThe perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
George Bernard ShawThe happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.
Samuel JohnsonThere is always another way to say the same thing that doesn’t look at all like the way you said it before. I don’t know what the reason for this is. I think it is somehow a representation of the simplicity of nature.
Richard P. FeynmanSometimes when you take strong stands, if you’re not called to do it, you’re dividing the audience you’re trying to reach.
Joel OsteenOne thing that I tell people all the time is, ‚I’m not going to answer a call from you after nine o’clock at night or before nine o’clock in the morning unless it’s an emergency.‘
Brene BrownI wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words.
Albert SchweitzerOf course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don’t know that I’m doing it, usually.
Brian EnoWe live in a day that nobody’s lived in before: where you can touch more people. The message I’ll speak tonight and the message that I speak at home, people in India will hear. It’s just an amazing day.
Joel OsteenThose who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.
Friedrich NietzscheThe world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
Baruch SpinozaHear reason, or she’ll make you feel her.
Benjamin FranklinYou’ve got to work things out in the cloakroom, and when you’ve got them worked out, you can debate a little before you vote.
Lyndon B. JohnsonI think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for telling one another when the best fruit is.
Terry PratchettIf you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.
Robert Baden-PowellWords are more treacherous and powerful than we think.
Jean-Paul SartreIt should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.
Albert EinsteinI meant what I said and I said what I meant.
Dr. SeussSpeaking English is like tongue-twist for me. I can speak each word perfect, but then you have to string them together like, ‚Blah, blah, blah.‘ That’s when I get crazy.
Jackie ChanMy first phone was two tin cans tied together with string, and it worked pretty good.
Dolly PartonWhen I look at public opinion, I’m not far out of the mainstream. I’m in it, in many respects. In some respects, public opinion goes beyond anything I’ve ever said.
Noam ChomskyLet us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.
Mark TwainTo be sure I must; and therefore I may assume that your silence gives consent.
PlatoPeace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that’s where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.
Desmond TutuBefore I lost my voice, it was slurred, so only those close to me could understand, but with the computer voice, I found I could give popular lectures. I enjoy communicating science. It is important that the public understands basic science, if they are not to leave vital decisions to others.
Stephen HawkingI boldly assert, in fact I think I know, that a lot of friendships and connections absolutely depend upon a sort of shared language, or slang. Not necessarily designed to exclude others, this can establish a certain comity and, even after a long absence, re-establish it in a second.
Christopher HitchensI do things I love doing. Sometimes that is maybe going out to have a drink with friends, going out partying or whatever.
Lando NorrisSometimes I’ve been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties, would give me a wide berth. And the ladies would gang up in a corner to discuss my dangerous character.
Marilyn MonroeThere is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.
Benjamin DisraeliThe capability of negotiating… is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.
Madeleine AlbrightA minute of thought is greater than an hour of talk.
John C. MaxwellThe man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.
Oscar WildeIf you want to get each individual’s honest opinion, you don’t want that opinion to be influenced by others who are present, much less allow a group to coordinate what they are going to say.
Thomas SowellI do not, in fact, use many puns. Certainly there are far fewer than people believe. But I suspect the ones I do occasionally use tend to hang around in people’s memories for a while.
Terry PratchettBut if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
George OrwellIf you can’t hear me, it’s because I’m in parentheses.
Steven Wright