Grows Quote by Robert Louis Stevenson

A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is a curious thing that when one speaks from the heart it is invariably in the worst of taste.

— Ngaio Marsh

When we turn around and come face to face with our destiny, we discover that spoken words are not enough. I know so many…

— Anonymous

People in general attach too much importance to words. They are under the illusion that talking effects great results. As a matter of fact,…

— Theodore Dreiser

Often it is important to listen to what people aren't saying.

— Peter Bergen

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them

— Stephen King

It's important that people realize that, with what we do, we aren't necessarily the ones saying what's being said. It's a character within the…

— Ron Mael

It is such a great fault to talk too much that, in business and conversation, if what is good is also brief, it is…

— Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

“This sentiment was expressed not so much in words and actions as in terrible and articulate sounds”

— Don DeLillo

When somebody speaks a language that we don't know, we often imagine that some important things are being said!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

It is not so much the content of what one says as the way in which one says it. However important the thing you…

— Sylvia Ashton-Warner

“To most of the general public, language comes down less to wonder than a rather censorious bifurcated sentiment – namely, that the vast majority…

— Robert Lane Greene