Irvine Welsh Quotes

Families in which nothing is ever discussed usually have a lot not to discuss.

For 18 years I have resisted talking about current events. I am not going to start now.

Yale is practicing a most unusual media strategy. I'd call it Just say nothing.

I'm doin' something different. I mean, I talk a little bit about race and interracial dating, but it's not the heart of my act. I just try to do what I think is funny; there's no huge message or through line.

A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.

Reasonable people can debate whether or not social experiments like a Day of Absence are enlightening.

A lot of problems in the society exist because we don't talk about it.

The climate of today is not really focused as much as it was then on being able to speak about different cultural issues or different situations that were going on politically.

It is a great misfortune neither to have enough wit to talk well nor enough judgment to be silent.

I find it not just strange but almost ridiculous that people could take a song like the one I was doing and interpret it is corroding anything. Folks have the feeling that oftentimes if you don't talk about something it will go away.

Why do we not hear the truth? Because we do not speak it.

I think the rap community always tells the truth. And I think that it's important that we listen to their voices so we can have a roadmap, because artists - almost every single artist in hip-hop, they paint a picture of society that's overlooked. The misogyny, the racism, the violence, the homophobia, these are things that we try to avoid instead of dealing with. All of that I see it so often.

I'll try to communicate, Taylor said. She spoke slowly and deliberately. Hello! We need help. Is your village close? My village is Denver. And I think it's a long way from here. I'm Nicole Ade. Miss Colorado. We have a Colorado where we're from too! Tiara said. She swiveled her hips, spread her arms wide, then brought her hands together prayer-style and bowed. Kipa aloha. Nicole stared. I speak English. I'm American. Also, did you learn those moves from Barbie's Hawaiian Vacation DVD? Ohmigosh, yes! Do your people have that, too?

We cannot solve the problems of America if every time somebody somewhere says something stupid, that everybody gets up in arms and we forget about the war in Iraq or we forget about the economy.

I've said all that I've had to say.

I learned that you actually have more power when you shut up.

Where there are so many, all speech becomes a debate without end. But two together may perhaps find wisdom.

Of the horse I will say nothing because I know the times.

The talkative listen to no one, for they are ever speaking. And the first evil that attends those who know not to be silent is that they hear nothing.

I believe I shall never be old enough to speak without embarrassment when I have nothing to talk about.

Is there anybody alive out there?

Qui plussait, plus se tait. French, you know. The more a man knows, the less he talks.

Our children are trying to tell us something. And we are not listening.

The only fit reply to a fit request is silence and the fact.

Good as is discourse, silence is better, and shames it. The length of the discourse indicates the distance of thought betwixt the speaker and the hearer. If they were at a perfect understanding in any part, no words would be necessary thereon. If at one in all parts, no words would be suffered.