Oral Communication Quotes

All I have is a voice.

The pen is mightier than the sword, but the tongue is mightier than them both put together.

… the telephone was only a convenience permitting Americans to do more orally and with less effort than what they had been doing before.

People have always told tales. Long before humanity learned to write and gradually became literate, everybody told tales to everybody else and everybody listened to everybody else's tales. Before long it became clear that some of the still illiterate storytellers told more and better tales than others, that is, they could make more people believe their lies.

I heard you good with them soft lips.. Yeah you know word of mouth.

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

Written words differ from spoken words in being material structures. A spoken word is a process in the physical world, having an essential time-order; a written word is a series of pieces of matter, having an essential space-order.

Dubbing for myself in Hindi is a big task. I know Hindi. I can read and write Hindi, but I dont normally speak the language, and that is very important.

So many words get lost. They leave the mouthand lose their courage, wandering aimlessly until they are swept into the gutter like dead leaves. On rainy days you can hear their chorus rushing past.

I act as the tongue of you, ... tied in your mouth . . . . in mine it begins to be loosened.

Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.

No glass renders a man's form or likeness so true as his speech.

Word of mouth is the most effective means of communication.

It's not what enters men's mouth that is evil," said the alchemist. It's what comes out of their mouths that is.

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.

If you do talk dirty, make sure that you enunciate because there's nothing more embarrassing than having to repeat yourself.

Long before writing, people were telling each other stories and the audiobook goes all the way back to that tradition.

Speaking is a beautiful folly; with that man dances over all things.

In general, what is written must be easy to read and easy to speak; which is the same.

I've got an awful memory, and I can't read or write, but you can read me a script once or twice, and I've got it.

If I hear an interesting turn of phrase on TV, I'll repeat it back - I just like to roll it around on my tongue. The same goes for dialog: I'll either speak it aloud or whisper it. I definitely sit in front of my computer and mutter. People have mentioned it.

Writing comes into being to retain information across time and across space. Before writing, communication is evanescent and local; sounds carry a few yards and fade to oblivion. The evanescence of the spoken word went without saying. So fleeting was speech that the rare phenomenon of the echo, a sound heard once and then again, seemed a sort of magic.

Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening.

Having to talk destroys the symphony of silence.

I'm not a natural storyteller at all. If anything, I'm a natural interviewer, a natural listener, but I'm not a natural storyteller.