Able Quote by Virginia Woolf

Speech is a powerful master and achieves the most divine feats with the smallest and least evident body. It can stop fear, relieve pain,…

— Gorgias

Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music…

— Gustave Flaubert

Words are powerful. The tongue is powerful. And when you write it down, and record it, and press it up, it's 100 million times…

— Cordae

As our larynxes descended, we were able to make sounds with our mouths in new and far more expressive ways. Verbal language soon overtook…

— Jon Stewart

“The tongue is our most powerful weapon of manipulation. A frantic stream of words flows from us because we are in a constant process…

— Richard J. Foster

There are many tongues to talk, and but few heads to think.

— Victor Hugo

One must turn the tongue seven times in the mouth before speaking.

— Roland Barthes

Speech is as a pump, by which we raise and pour out the water from the great lake of Thought,--whither it flows back again.

— John Sterling

Speech, originally, was the device whereby Man learned, imperfectly, to transmit the thoughts and emotions of his mind. By setting up arbitrary sounds and…

— Isaac Asimov

“There exists a remarkable consensus among those who have studied and practiced public speaking over the last twenty-five hundred years that the most effective…

— Keith Willhite

There is a silence, the child of love, which expresses everything, and proclaims more loudly than the tongue is able to do.

— William Drummond

Among a man's many good possessions, A good command of speech has no equal. Prosperity and ruin issue from the power of the tongue.…

— Thiruvalluvar