Seth Meyers Quotes

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

Now, Marlon and I - for some reason, even today - even today, we can't say two words to each other. We really can't talk to each other. You know, I say to him - Marlon can't talk. I mean, he'd talk to you. But he can't talk.

In fact, their eyes sort of roll around and they kind of go, 'Hmm'- like there's something there and they don't want to talk about it. But they're not that kind when they are speaking in public.

Families always have these unspoken dramas, and at holidays, everyone is supposed to sit down and pretend that none of that is going on.

Like the proverbial elephant in the room, American anti-Europeanism has loomed large for so long that few trouble to notice it.

We need space to discuss unspoken, uncomfortable dark truths.

It’s less the words they say than those they leave unsaid that split old friends apart.

Scientists attach great importance to the human capacity for spoken language. But we also have a parallel track of nonverbal communication, which may reveal more than our carefully chosen words, and sometimes be at odds with them.

In most horror films, you don't really get to understand why this character is the way he is.

I'm tired of biting my tongue.

I have noticed that nothing that I never said ever did me any harm.

Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks.

I say out loud what everyone thinks deep inside.

He who sincerely expressed his thought must remain alone, whereas it generally happens that everyone else, or the majority at least, have been thinking and feeling the same things but without expressing them. he who sincerely expressed his thought must remain alone, whereas it generally happens that everyone else, or the majority at least, have been thinking and feeling the same things but without expressing them.

Every one wanted to say so much that no one said anything in particular.

You’d think that he would call and encourage me after my debate before the send largest audience. Something’s going on there. I always figure it out. Something very sinister is going on.

During the holidays, I often see my sisters, who still, even after all these years, can't always seem to agree with me. They take silly, indefensible positions, such as denying that my parents loved me more because I was the better child.

I'm obsessed with subtexts. I love that we often don't say what we feel. That gap between the two. I like it when actors reveal a lot without having to say it.

In the dating game, the world is difficult because people don't communicate, or they communicate, but then their actions speak louder than words.

If you're truly depicting human behavior in an honest way, it is a lot of miscommunication, non-communication, paranoia, passive aggressiveness. People don't finish sentences. They don't say what they mean. They lie to each other. They take credit for things that are actually other people's ideas.

When you're a biographer, you want to explore the very things that your subject didn't care to talk about.

I didn't see deep emotion from my parents. It was all very polite and very surface. I never knew how anybody was feeling.

Parents become very good at not hearing the explicit words and listening instead to what the child means but doesn't yet know how to say: 'I'm lonely, in pain, frightened' - distress which then unfairly comes out as an attack on the safest, kindest, most reliable thing in the child's world: the parent.

I write about messy relationships, and they put pastel covers on them, but I can't complain.

I'm always interested in how people use language to not say what they mean.