Animal Quote by Zeynep Tufekci

Appearing to pay attention when someone is speaking is one of the cornerstones of real social interaction.

— Judith Martin

Speech has both an individual and a social side, and we cannot conceive of one without the other.

— Ferdinand de Saussure

Conversation opens our views, and gives our faculties a more vigorous play; it puts us upon turning our notions on every side, and holds…

— William Melmoth

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

“All things have the capacity for speech -- all beings have the ability to communicate something of themselves to other beings. Indeed, what is…

— David Abram

In public speaking, we must appeal either to the prejudices of others, or to the love of truth and justice. If we think merely…

— William Hazlitt

Before we start anything creatively, we have a firm understanding of our objective and our frame of mind for the campaign. Who's our audience,…

— David Droga

Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both

— John Andrew Holmes

A huge amount of our everyday thinking - powerful, creative, and resonant stuff - is done socially: talking to other people, arguing with them,…

— Clive Thompson

I think young people respond much better to openness and frankness and practical stuff than speeches.

— Karren Brady

Conversation is interesting in proportion to the originality of the central ideas which serve as pivots and the fitness of the little facts and…

— Philip Gilbert Hamerton

We speak not only to tell other people what we think, but to tell ourselves what we think. Speech is a part of thought.

— Oliver Sacks