Keeping silent Quote by George Mikes

“say   v. (says; past and past part.said) 1 [reporting verb] utter words so as to convey information, an opinion, a feeling or intention, or…

— Oxford University Press

“To most people, if you’re muttering, you might as well be speaking a foreign language. I should know, because in college I took two…

— Jarod Kintz

“We no longer have a sufficiently high estimate of ourselves when we communicate. Our true experiences are not garrulous. They could not communicate themselves…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The colossal misunderstanding of our time is the assumption that insight will work with people who are unmotivated to change. Communication does not depend…

— Edwin H. Friedman

“Verbalize someone's actions back to them. Menace them with language, the language mirror. Death by feedback.”

— Ben Marcus

For it is probable that when people talk aloud, the selves (of which there may be more than two thousand) are conscious of disserverment,…

— Virginia Woolf

Conversation's got to have some root in the past, or else you've got to explain every remark you make, an' it wears a person…

— Sarah Orne Jewett

“Is it rash to assume that when a practised writer says a thing, he is more likely to mean what he says than what…

— W. Somerset Maugham

I say a lot of things - millions of words a day - so if I misspoke, that was just a misstatement,

— Hillary Clinton

“Our young people, raised under the old rules of courtesy, never indulged in the present habit of talking incessantly and all at the same…

— Kent Nerburn

“I'm used to people talking, saying words aloud to prove they know more than me, that they're better than me. But they're just words.…

— Katie McGarry

“My dear friend, clear your mind of cant [excessive thought]. You may talk as other people do: you may say to a man, "Sir,…

— Samuel Johnson