Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quotes

you don't know what you think unless you say it.

If writing has taught me anything, it's that you don't actually understand anything until you can express it in words.

Man does not speak because he thinks; he thinks because he speaks. Or rather, speaking is no different than thinking: to speak is to think.

I don't think there is such a thing as an idea without words, because your language is your thought.

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.

You think, you don't just speak. The lines come off the thoughts.

We don't know what we think until we see what we say.

The thought process can never be complete without articulation.

We do not learn first what to talk about and then what to say about it.

Speech is external thought, and thought internal speech.

Thought is made in the mouth.

Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.

The only thing you have to know are your words.

One of the things that writing and speech can do is express what we're thinking one thought at a time.

Man can no more think without words than see without light.

Talking and eloquence are not the same.

I'm a talker.

People find a way in which they can say something.

I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it.

We speak now or I do, and others do. You've never spoken before. You will. You'll be able to say how the city is a pit and a hill and a standard and an animal that hunts and a vessel on the sea and the sea and how we are fish in it, not like the man who swims weekly with fish but the fish with which he swims, the water, the pool. I love you, you light me, warm me, you are suns. You have never spoken before.

He mouths a sentence as curs mouth a bone.

I write - and talk - in order to find out what I think.

I have drawn from the well of language many a thought which I do not have and which I could not put into words.

Damn words; they're just the pots and pans of life, the pails and scrubbing-brushes. I wish I didn't have to think in words.

The best clue to what a person thinks is what he says.