When a politician uses the word ‚folks,‘ we should brace ourselves for the deceit, or worse, that is coming.

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

As Bromberger observed, rules are understood to be elements of the computational systems that determine the sound and meaning of the infinite array of expressions of a language; the information so derived is accessed by other systems in language use.

To be sure I must; and therefore I may assume that your silence gives consent.

I’ve studied authoritarianism for a very long time – for 40 years – and they’re started by people’s attempts to control the ideological and linguistic territory.

Swearing is industry language. For as long as we’re alive it’s not going to change. You’ve got to be boisterous to get results.

My mother always taught us that if people don’t agree with you, the important thing is to listen to them. But if you’ve listened to them carefully and you still think that you’re right, then you must have the courage of your convictions.

Many people listen to what I have to say and I appear a lot in media, so therefore I influence a lot of people and therefore I have a bigger responsibility because I have a bigger platform.

Luckily for me, people don’t scream at me that much in my everyday life.

If you’re yelling you’re the one who’s lost control of the conversation.

All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

If you ever go to a music session, you’ll notice that the musicians can sit down and start playing right away, and everyone knows what to do. Of course they’re reading it, but the conductor can tweak little things, and you can take that back to directing motion pictures.

A leader who confines his role to his people’s experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people’s experience runs the risk of not being understood.

Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.

If you can’t move and talk to people that you see, it’s not really my scene.

Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.

It is very hard to not be able to engage with people in a real and honest way because they either want something from me, or they see me as something that I simply am not.

Nobody’s ever said that pins are a tool of diplomacy.

I’ve been a lot more into Facebook and Twitter and Instagram, which was a bit complicated for me to understand the language of each social media, because they all talk in different ways. It’s a nice way for me to tell people I appreciate them, which I forget to do sometimes.

When I talk to kids, I’m really listening. When I do that, we have a little bit of a bigger connection than me being Kendrick Lamar and you being a student. It’s almost like we’re friends. Because a friend listens.

Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

FaceTime helps me a lot. I feel like I’m at home even though I’m not.

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.

Anybody can be specific and obvious. That’s always been the easy way. It’s not that it’s so difficult to be unspecific and less obvious; it’s just that there’s nothing, absolutely nothing, to be specific and obvious about.

Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.

Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is ‚elephant‘.

Why a four-year-old child could understand this report. Run out and find me a four-year-old child. I can’t make head nor tail out of it.

You can stroke people with words.

Each day we understand better what the Indians say, and they us, so that very often we are intelligible to each other.

The more you know the less you need to say.

If I could explain it to the average person, it wouldn’t have been worth the Nobel Prize.

She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.

Never speak to an invalid from behind, nor from the door, nor from any distance from him, nor when he is doing anything. The official politeness of servants in these things is so grateful to invalids, that many prefer, without knowing why, having none but servants about them.

Proselytism is solemn nonsense; it makes no sense. We need to get to know each other, listen to each other and improve our knowledge of the world around us.

A saint is tolerant and is attentive to the pleadings of other human beings, not only to spoken messages but to unspoken messages as well.

Beware the hobby that eats.

I think we basically saw that the messaging space is bigger than we’d initially realized, and that the use cases that WhatsApp and Messenger have are more different than we had thought originally.

Clean fighting solves everything. It ends all bad blood and any ill feelings people have. That’s my thoughts.

What can I say? I’m a talker.

We can’t just choose to tell some facts and not others because we don’t want to upset people. We have to tell it like it is.

I grew up cursing a lot.

Facebook is really about communicating and telling stories… We think that people can really help spread awareness of organ donation and that they want to participate in this to their friends. And that can be a big part of helping solve the crisis that’s out there.

I loved writing for kids, I loved talking to children about what I’d written, I don’t want to leave that behind.

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

I have already demonstrated, by crucial tests, the practicability of signaling by my system from one to any other point of the globe, no matter how remote, and I shall soon convert the disbelievers.

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

I never went to school more than six months in my life, but I can say this: that among my earliest recollections, I remember how, when a mere child, I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me in a way I could not understand.

I can easily imagine Obama sitting down and talking to any leader – or any person – in the world, with no baggage of past servitude or race supremacy to mar their talks.

A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over… is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.

Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.

Be not a slave of words.

If your man is a sports enthusiast, you may have to resign yourself to his spouting off in a monotone on a prize fight, football game or pennant race.

If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.

Without tact you can learn nothing.

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.

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.

I just think you ought to talk straight with your people.