Christine and the Queens Quotes

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

The only thing you have to know are your words.

When I was very young, I didn't talk a lot. If an adult was speaking, I was listening. I think it was the moment I turned 18 when I was like, 'I'm an adult now and have opinions and things to say, so now it's time for people to listen to me.'

Get what you can with words, because words are free, but the words of an armed man ring that much sweeter.

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

I always believed that I have something important to say and I said it.

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

They say actions speak louder than words, but actions don't speak. People speak, and people are loud.

What you've got to say, you say.

The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.

I wanted to be heard, not seen. That's how it all started.

A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.

Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then?

So you have free speech, but you don’t have much to say.

By words the mind is winged.

If You are a man who leads, calmly hear the speech of one who pleads, (and) do not stop him from purging his body of that which he planned to tell.

I am sure that as soon as speech was invented, efforts to suppress and control it began, and that process of suppression continues unabated.

I'm a talker.

There's a voice in all of us, and you can only get expressive through words. There's a limit to what you can do without speaking.

Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.

Your voice is important - it gives away everything about you. The mouth is a muscle you have to work like you'd work at the gym.

The things I have to say on and off the record are important, and I say them because I want to be heard.

I think there are some people for whom words are like food.

I have so many things I want to say.

Coming from a very inarticulate family made me try to speak for those who can't express themselves and created a need for articulation at its most ceremonial - poetry.