Mary E. Pearson Quotes

There is no time to leave important words unsaid.

Say what you have to say now! Don't wait until you're sending blips from the other side.

That which we do not believe, we cannot adequately say; even though we may repeat the words ever so often.

Don't be mysterious; there isn't the time.

Failure is never quite so frightening as regret.

I believe verbal felicity is the fruit of ardor, of diligence, and of refusing to be false.

Once you say something, it stays said. I apologized to anyone who may have been hurt by what I said, and I really meant it. I am absolutely not interested in hurting anyone, or being mean or insensitive.

Please may this not be a game. Please may this not be a game. Because if it’s a game, I know I’m going to lose.

Words are the voice of the heart.

There are only two types of speakers in the world. 1. The nervous and 2. Liars.

Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.

Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words.

Whatever distrust we may have of the sincerity of those who converse with us, we always believe they will tell us more truth than they do to others.

Few things hold the perception more thoroughly captive than anxiety about what we have got to say

Truth is used to vitalize a statement rather than devitalize it. Truth implies more than a simple statement of fact. "I don't have any whiskey," may be a fact but it is not a truth.

What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?

I hardly ever talk- words seem such a waste, and they are none of them true. No one has yet invented a language from my point of view.

God alone knows how great it is. All I hope is that it is not too late. I am very much afraid that it is. We can only do our best.

Too much truth confuses the facts. Too much honesty makes you sound insincere.

Take Courage! Whatever you decide to do, it will probably be the wrong thing.

Say it before you run out of time. Say it before it's too late. Say what you're feeling. Waiting is a mistake.

When you sing, always tell the truth.

I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it.

As you talk, so is your heart.

You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music. The thing about music is that nobody listens to it unless it's real. I don't think that you can fool anybody for too long in music. And you certainly can't fool everybody.