Differences Quote by Nellie L. McClung

There's all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.

— John Dewey

Always, with speeches, I feel like it's an opportunity to say something.

— David Harbour

Better to have something to say than to have to say something.

— James Cook

I think it's interesting to speak when you have something to say,

— Delphine Arnault

I think people actually notice sometimes the content of what one is saying rather than the decibel level at which he says it. And…

— Benjamin Carson

Sometimes speech is no more than a device for saying nothing - and a neater one than silence.

— Simone de Beauvoir

It is wise to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well.

— Plutarch

I have come to the conclusion that it is better to be silent than to speak.

— Vaslav Nijinsky

In academics, it's getting your voice out that's important. It's getting somebody to listen to you. I had no problem with that. People were…

— Frances Arnold

Why tell me that a man is a fine speaker, if it is not the truth that he is speaking?

— Thomas Carlyle

when one never speaks, one has nothing to say because one has too much to say.

— Ingrid Bergman

The ability to speak is a short cut to distinction. It puts a man in the limelight, raises him head and shoulders above the…

— Lowell Thomas