Certain Quote by Siri Hustvedt

It's interesting because you feel on the one hand, we understand people from what the say, and in another sense, you'd think that you'd…

— Adrien Brody

“Words, no matter whether they are vocalized and made into sounds or remain unspoken as thoughts, can cast an almost hypnotic spell upon you.…

— Eckhart Tolle

Don't forget that few people are likely to tell more than a small part of the truth: no one tells much of the truth,…

— Halldór Laxness

We are never half so interesting when we have learned that language is given us to enable us to conceal our thoughts.

— Anonymous

Because there are mysteries. Because there are things that people are forbidden to speak about. Because there are things they do not remember.

— Neil Gaiman

I’m not too keen on talking. I always have the feeling that the words are getting away from me, escaping and scattering. It’s not…

— Delphine de Vigan

There are many occasions in literature in which telling is far more effective than showing.

— Francine Prose

Perhaps it is possible to discover more in silence than in speech. Or perhaps it is only that those who are silent among us…

— Alice Hoffman

It is too often forgotten that the gift of speech, so centrally employed, has been elaborated as much for the purpose of concealing thought…

— Wilfred Bion

One often speaks without seeing, without knowing, without meaning what one says.

— Jacques Derrida

Scientists attach great importance to the human capacity for spoken language. But we also have a parallel track of nonverbal communication, which may reveal…

— Leonard Mlodinow

At all crucial moments in our lives we want to speak without knowing what to say.

— Joyce Carol Oates