A speech idiosyncrasy, in the same way as an air quote, is really justifiable only if it’s employed very sparingly and if the user consciously intends to be using it.

The way I talk is bizarre.

I was also a junior and I know how you learn from seniors, that’s how you follow. Speeches don’t work.

Such a chimerical idea as telegraphing vocal sounds would indeed, to most minds, seem scarcely feasible enough to spend time in working over. I believe, however, that it is feasible and that I have got the cue to the solution of the problem.

What you guys want, I’m for.

If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water’s edge.

Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.

I want to negotiate what I’m worth. I want to put my analytics forward, man-to-man, and to be like, ‚This is what I’m owed now. Pay me.‘ And then we can talk.

I talk to myself all the time. Just make sure you answer.

Prayer is such a basic foundation of a Christian’s relationship with God. It’s how we communicate and fellowship with Him. But a surprising number of people, young and old, new and even long-time Christians, say they’re not satisfied with their prayer life.

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

A mother defends herself with a heart filled with love before doing so with words. I wonder whether there is any love for the church in the hearts of those who pay so much attention to the scandals.

A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.

If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we’re really talking about peace.

Talking, it seemed to me, was the point of adult existence.

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

Well I have a microphone and you don’t so you will listen to every damn word I have to say!

No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.

I’m not really good at fun-to-know, human interest stuff. We’re not ‚celebrities‘, whose life itself is a performance. Good or bad or ugly, we are our words. They’re what people meet.

My readers – and I get 400 emails for a day, my readers normally they say, well, you understand me, and I answer, you do understand me also. We are in the same level.

Tell them to send everything that can fly.

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.

Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said.

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

People make suggestions on what to say all the time. I’ll give you an example; I don’t read what’s handed to me. People say, ‚Here, here’s your speech, or here’s an idea for a speech.‘ They’re changed. Trust me.

There are a lot of self-imposed restrictions by people who somehow believe they have to fall in with a certain military cant. There was always a sense that we had to put things into words that would touch our troops‘ hearts, not just their heads.

Words are but the signs of ideas.

It used to be the case, like you’d switch jobs, and then maybe you wouldn’t keep in touch with all the people that you knew from that old job, just because it was too hard. But one of the things that Facebook does is it makes it really easy to just stay in touch with all these people.

You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.

I realized why directors are such horrible people – in a way – because you want things to be right, and people will just not listen to you, and there is no time to be nice to people, no time to be delicate.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

I don’t like talking to celebrities.

I grew up cursing a lot. It felt natural. My parents told me to stop.

On TV the people can see it. On radio you’ve got to create it.

Good leaders must communicate vision clearly, creatively, and continually. However, the vision doesn’t come alive until the leader models it.

I write all of my own speeches.

I have an urge to communicate. I think I’m a change from what it would be like dating a normal guy who doesn’t talk too much.

I promised myself that I would write as well as I can, tell the truth, not to tell everything I know, but to make sure that everything I tell is true, as I understand it. And to use the eloquence which my language affords me.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

I’ll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions, depending on what I think will help our election most.

I don’t do Shakespeare. I don’t talk in that kind of broken English.

Early on, when I was quite young and going from job to job, I was foolish enough to sometimes speak to my fellow workers: ‚Hey, the boss can come in here at any moment and lay all of us off, just like that, don’t you realize that?‘ They would just look at me. I was posing something that they didn’t want to enter their minds.

I wish I could shut up, but I can’t, and I won’t.

You’re never going to kill storytelling, because it’s built into the human plan. We come with it.

When it comes to gossip, I have to readily admit men are as guilty as women.

There 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.

If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It’s a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting.

You can stroke people with words.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

I think we’re still in a muddle with our language, because once you get words and a spoken language it gets harder to communicate.

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.