Issues Quote by Bill Bryson

“People don't talk like this, theytalklikethis. Syllables, words, sentences run together like a watercolor left in the rain. To understand what anyone is saying…

— Bill Bryson

“The sound of words as they're said is always different from the sound they make when they're heard, because the speaker hears some of…

— David Levithan

When somebody's talking to us, they're not putting pauses - carefully putting pauses between words. It all flows together. The problem with that though,…

— Nicholas G. Carr

People speak because they are afraid of silence. They speak mechanically whether aloud or to themselves. They are intoxicated by this vocal gruel that…

— Andreï Makine

In this great age of communication, there a lot of people you can't actually understand. I know everyone tweets, and twits and texts and…

— Penelope Keith

In the speech sound wave, one word runs into the next seamlessly; there are no little silences between spoken words the way there are…

— Steven Pinker

People generally express more in between their sentences when they're not speaking. Words are usually there to disguise who someone is or what they're…

— Heath Ledger

“We hear speech as a string of separate words, but unlike the tree falling in the forest with no one to hear it, a…

— Steven Pinker

Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence.

— Margaret Halsey

Speech sounds can be analyzed into fundamental units called phonemes; these move around like protozoa in a drop of water, and, like protozoa, join…

— L. Sprague de Camp

There are tones of voices that mean more than words.

— Robert Frost

When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a…

— Dan Quayle