Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes

We are never half so interesting when we have learned that language is given us to enable us to conceal our thoughts.

Everything in life is speaking in spite of it's apparent silence.

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

One of the things that writing and speech can do is express what we're thinking one thought at a time.

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.

My writing is about connecting ways of talking to human relationships. My purpose is to show that linguistics has something to offer in understanding and improving relationships.

If intelligence is the triumph of life, the spoken word is the marvellous means by which this intelligence is manifested.

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

We spend so much time listening to the things people are saying that we rarely pay attention to the things they don't.

No matter what you say in carefully chosen sentences, girls will detect both the spoken and unspoken messages.

Words are what created our world. Words are what keep it going.

Thought itself needs words. It runs on them like a long wire. And if it loses the habit of words, little by little it becomes shapeless, somber.

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.

As fascinated as I was by words on paper, it was matched by my fascination with words in people's mouths. The spoken word. And that is the world of theatre.

If writers wrote as carelessly as some people talk, then adhasdh asdglaseuyt[bn[ pasdlgkhasdfasdf.

it's way too early for him to be talking anyhow but I see in his eyes something and I see in his eyes a voice and I see in his eyes a whole new set of words

I wish the first word I ever said was the word "quote", so right before I die I could say "unquote".

Reading aloud sounds like a good idea, but honestly, it doesn't work very well. Good dialogue in a book doesn't actually bear much resemblance to real-life dialogue. For example, if you've ever seen a word-for-word transcript of people talking, it doesn't read off the page very well. The trick is to make it *seem* like it's being spoken, not to make it speakable.

A strange thing, words. Once they're said, it's hard to imagine they're untrue.

We speak naturally but spend all our lives trying to write naturally.

The spoken word is nothing. It hardly lives longer than an insect! Only the written word is eternal. - Balbulus

It was strange how words meant something when they came out of your mouth. Inside your head they were safe and silent, but once they were outside, people grabbed hold of them.

Words, mademoiselle, are only the outer clothing of ideas.

If you want to know how to make people shun you and laugh at you behind your back and even despise you, here is the recipe: Never listen to anyone for long. Talk incessantly about yourself. If you have an idea while the other person is talking, don't wait for him or her to finish: bust right in and interrupt in the middle of a sentence.

You're all mad for words. Words are just farts from a lot of fools who have swallowed too many books. Give me things!