Ben Jonson Quotes

How I say it has as much of an impact on what people think of me as what I say.

Everybody wants to say who they are and where they're from. And the easiest and cheapest and most universal way of doing that is through their accent.

One should go to the line through the character. You should see their lifestyle in the way they speak.

Language is our way of communicating what we want and who we are.

They see us interacting with people, they see us doing serious interviews, they see us having fun, and when you're conversing with someone, you get a much clearer impression of who that person is than if they are just reading into a news piece.

Communication is important.

I am a communicator; that seems to be my natural place. And I'll always be passionate about the world, because it's so bonkers.

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

I probably should be a little more cautious with how I speak, and I think my delivery needs to be a little softer.

Language and identity are so fundamentally intertwined. You peel back all the layers in terms of what we wear and what we eat and all the things that mark us, and in the end, what we have are our words.

People that don't talk are constipated. I'm sorry, but if you can't communicate, what do you have? You have nothing.

I believe every person has a story that comes out from the way they talk, their opinion, their mindset and their body language.

Language is very important to me.

Accents are interesting, because they very often inform the way a person moves.

Smaller incidents in my life made me realize that language, even more than color, defines who you are to people.

What you say is who you are. How you say it is your style.

I'm the biggest fan of face-to-face communication.

All people in the world - who are not hermits or mutes - speak words. They speak different languages, but they speak words. They say, "How are you" or "I'm not feeling well" all over the world. These common words - these common elements that we have between us - the writer has to take some verbs and nouns and pronouns and adjectives and adverbs and arrange them in a way that sound fresh.

The phrase "It's absolutely the same with me, I..." seems to be an approving echo, a way of continuing the other's thought, but that is an illusion: in reality it is a brute revolt against a brutal violence, an effort to free our own ear from bondage and to occupy the enemy's ear by force. Because all of man's life among his kind is nothing other than a battle to seize the ear of others.

The way you write affects what you say.

The way I figured it, keeping quiet was safe. Words could betray you if you chose the wrong ones, or mean less if you used too many. Jokes could be grandly miscalculated, or stories deemed boring, and I'd learned early on that my sense of humor and ideas about what sorts of things were fascinating didn't exactly overlap with my friends.

Learn the value of a man's words and expressions, and you know him. Each man has a measure of his own for everything; this he offers you inadvertently in his words. He who has a superlative for everything wants a measure for the great or small.

To speak a language is to take on a world, a culture.

We become full human agents, capable of understanding ourselves, and hence of defining our identity, through our acquisition of rich human languages of expression.

Speech is a mirror of the soul: as a man speaks, so is he.