Speaking Quotes

If speaking is silver, then listening is gold.

~ Turkish Proverbs

We imagine always when we speak that it is our own ears, our own mind, that are listening.

~ Marcel Proust

The intelligent talk and the wise listen.

~ Raheel Farooq

What good was speaking when I'd determined none of the world listened to one another, especially not when a woman was speaking.

~ Leanna Renee Hieber

Whenever a homeless person speaks to me in the USA, I always assume that I am speaking to a police officer and play along with the suspected charade.

~ Steven Magee

He spoke in a trembling voice that didn’t seem to be entirely in sync with the movement of his lips. That’s because sound travels slower in halitosis.

~ Sorin Suciu

We unlearn the art of speaking well when we cease to speak with God.

~ John Calvin

There are so many different ways for someone to say your name. I’m not sure I ever realized that before I met Jesse. Prior to him, it was just Rose calling out to me with love and affection or Gideon relaying his quiet approval or disapproval. Crisp, clear notes. When Jesse says my name, it’s a chord, a mash-up of several intense emotions all reflected in two syllables.

~ Paula Stokes

Clearly she was expected to say something, but panic at having to speak stole the thoughts from her head.

~ Shannon Hale

One never said the things one wanted — one remembered them all an hour afterwards. On the other hand one usually said a lot of things one shouldn't, simply from a sense that one had to say something.

~ Henry James

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.

~ Khalil Gibran

I do have to travel a lot for speaking engagements.

~ P. J. O'rourke

Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.

~ Henry David Thoreau

We have a government that, generally speaking, does not respond to the people.

~ Christopher Reeve