Expression Quote by Gustave Flaubert

“Speech is a rolling mill which always stretches out the feelings that go into it.”

— Gustave Flaubert

“Speech is a rolling machine that always stretches the feelings it expresses.”

— Gustave Flaubert

Speech is a rolling press that always amplifies one's emotions.

— Gustave Flaubert

“This sentence is filled with unnecessary words, phrases and rhetorical throat-clearing devices and is marked by a generally bombastic tone.”

— Charles M. Fox

“I fill my life with speech, but not with people who are truly listening.”

— Jarod Kintz

“Words are wind, and the only good wind is that which fills our sails.”

— George R.R. Martin

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

“Words can hurt. Speech can harm. Always think through before you talk and you will save a heart from feeling bitter.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

“There’s something interesting about a voice crying out in the wilderness. It’s loud. It’s radical, and by implication, it must be willing and able…

— Michelle Walker-Wade

“It was mortifying to find how strong the habit of idle speech may become in one’s self. One need not always be saying something…

— Sarah Orne Jewett

“Speech is a spell, and words, once ejected into the air, warp the weave of worlds.”

— Ho Tzu Nyen

“Sometimes a situation grows so tangled that words are useless.”

— Patrick Rothfuss