Joshua Ferris Quotes

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 more powerful. It's important to utilize our tongue to help people.

You can talk without saying a thing. I don't ever want to be that type of person.

If language did not affect behavior, it could have no meaning.

I hope I have important things to say.

My words fly up, my thoughts remain below. Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

Silence is better than unmeaning words.

Language is powerful. Words matter.

Suddenly, I don't know what to say. It happens often to me. I know what I want to say, I think about whether it is what I mean, but when the moment comes to speak, I can't say it. - Nana Kleinfrankenheim, Vivre Sa Vie.

I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough, it’ll make sense.

I think you want to show a level of transparency that breeds trust. You don't want to show a level of desperation that breeds concern.

I want to be transparent, so I don't leave room for too much thinking.

Isn't it possible that I'm not feigning interest? That I really do want to know more about you?" "You've never been interested in me before." "You've never been interesting before." -Cassandra and Paige

I think more than anything, people just want to be understood.

A perfect date is probably something somewhere where you can kind of communicate and talk to the person. I don't like movies as first date. I don't think that's a good idea because you don't really get to talk to the person. I think taking a walk or just having one on one time with that person is the best.

we have let rhetoric do the job of poetry.

When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman?

It's really nice when you can sit down with somebody and just talk to them, and talk about your ideas and what you think the character is, and they respond to it. It's a really nice way to do it, but it doesn't happen very often.

There's all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.

I don't want to say the wrong thing, which I always do. I think I do better when I sing.

The odd thing about this form of communication is you're more likely to talk about nothing than something. But I just want to say that all this nothing has meant more to me than so many... somethings. So, thanks.

Ideas never lack for words. It is words that lack ideas.

As I grow older I find that though I think I'm saying the same things as I always did, people listen to me more.

The things that really matter don't mix with idle chatter.

In a letter (no matter how quickly it is written or honestly or freely or lovingly) it is more possible to be loving and lovable, more possible to reach out and to take in ... I feel I have somehow deceived you into thinking this is really a human relationship. It is a letter relationship between humans.