Bruce Eric Kaplan Quotes

People are always giving you credit for really wanting to say more than you said.

I'm tired of biting my tongue.

It was terrible. All of the things we couldn't share. The room was filled with conversations we weren't having.

I want to say so much more than I have time for.

Supposedly I'm impossible to talk to. But it's honestly not me being difficult. Sometimes you just don't have a lot to say.

I don't express a lot of things that I feel; I kind of register things.

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.

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.

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

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?

The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious.

Often it is important to listen to what people aren't saying.

No one tells me what they think because they're either intimidated by me, or they don't want to upset me.

If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.

I grew up in a family that despised displays of strong emotion, rage in particular. We stewed. We sulked. When arguments did occur, they were full-scale conniptions, and we regarded them as family failings.

There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound.

When you go to a movie, it's about what's not being said. I tried to bring that to Greg Sumner. It was always about what's not being said.

I've done the thing where I stop being communicative, and I've been on the other side where the other person isn't communicating, and I become frustrated.

I don't think that the spoken words solve everything. Sometimes silence delivers truer feelings while the words can distort the meaning in some situations.

The inarticulate speak longest.

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

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

I think it's not about what you say; it's about what you don't say.

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

You can only sit on the frustration of wanting to express something for so long.