Language Quote by John Updike Download Open image ““A yawning repetitiveness as of a man who knows few words but will not stop talking.”” — John Updike ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Language Stop talking
“...I realize words are never enough; they stutter and cleave to the roof of my mouth.” — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“I find it more polite when I yawn without opening my mouth. I also talk this way too, with my mouth closed.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“When conversing, some people regularly stop talking, not to listen, but to rest their tongues.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“I own a few yawns that I rent out to people who are tired of the sleazy snooze salesman.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, when people speak, I cease listening to their words and zoom in instead on the cadence, and it can seem lovely, and at… — Rosie O'Donnell Copy Share Image
“To stop talking for a while, then, is to attempt to strip away the power of words, to stop choking ourselves with words, to… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“When speaking to a Bear of Very Little Brain, remember that long words may bother him.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When you recognise that there is a voice in your head that pretends to be you and never stops speaking, you are awakening out… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“The power of what we say is not determined by the duration of our talk but by its content. The more the mouth chatters,… — Joan Marques Copy Share Image
Life is a roller coaster, you have your ups and downs unless you fall off. — John Updike Copy Share Image
Children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures, but an array of mirrors in which the human predicament leaps out at us. — John Updike Copy Share Image
I assume my stance, and take back the club, low, slowly; at the top, my eyes fog over, and my joints dip and swirl… — John Updike Copy Share Image
The New England spirit does not seek solutions in a crowd; raw light and solitariness are less dreaded than welcomed as enhancers of our… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I imagine most of that stuff on the information highway is roadkill anyway. — John Updike Copy Share Image
Families, doing everything for each other out of imagined obligation and always getting in each other's way, what a tangle. — John Updike Copy Share Image
“The mind cannot fall asleep as long as it watches itself. Only when the mind moves unwatched and becomes absorbed in images that tug… — John Updike Copy Share Image
In fiction, imaginary people become realer to us than any named celebrity glimpsed in a series of rumored events, whose causes and subtler ramifications… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“Her hair had been going gray as long as he could remember; she bundled it behind in a bun held with hairpins that he… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
Usually male directors have to use foul language to get the job done. But I never came down to that level as being a… — Divya Khosla Kumar Copy Share Image
The problem posed by indirect speech acts is the problem of how it is possible for the speaker to say one thing and mean… — John Searle Copy Share Image
A man walks down the street. It's a street in a strange world. Maybe it's the third world. Maybe it's his first time around.… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
It's like saying French shouldn't be taught because you don't understand it because it's new. Shakespeare is just like learning a new, exciting language. — Samuel Barnett Copy Share Image
I am attracted to looking at the different things language can mean even in one sometimes quite ordinary utterance. Writing is partly about listening… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
What is music? Music is language. A human being wants to express ideas in this language, but not ideas that can be translated into… — Anton Webern Copy Share Image
You're beautiful, cute, pretty, gorgeous, and fuck.. I ran out of words. — Raghib Clitso Copy Share Image
The world has a soul and whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of many things. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“The words for what I want to say right now don't exist. Everything sounds…so cliché.” — Shelly Crane Copy Share Image
A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
