Unspoken Ideas Quotes

It is true that everything has been said, but not everyone has said it.

Everything has been said but not everyone has yet said it.

Occasionally, you might enjoy the luxury of an unexpressed thought.

I have a few theories and trains of thought that I wouldn't expose because they are not anyone's business. I hold them sacred, it's how I feel, it's my opinion, not up for debate, and not meant to be shared.

Thought that is silenced is always rebellious.

Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.

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

So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets having marred it.

I have drawn from the well of language many a thought which I do not have and which I could not put into words.

The essence of dramatic form is to let an idea come over people without it being plainly stated. When you say something directly, it's simply not as potent as it is when you allow people to discover it for themselves.

This is a pity, for I had many other things of great interest to say. But, as my time has expired, and not wishing to further interrupt the proceedings, I would at least like to have permission to print some remarks in the [Congressional] Record and insert "laughter and applause" in appropriate places. Now I will retire to the cloak-room to receive congratulations.

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.

If you love a book you tend not to follow its surface value, you follow the other things in it.

The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible.

My songs are always on the tip of my tongue. It's always bubbling and brewing and about to come out. I can't really put it into words, but the best way to explain it is feeling like you constantly have some things on the tip of your tongue.

Thoughts there are, that need no embodying, no form, no expression. It is enough to hint at them vaguely; a word, and they are heard and seen.

There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.

How many fine thoughts has every man had! How few fine thoughts are expressed!

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?

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

One of the primary motivations for the series is that I never really felt that I was a person who could explain verbally what I thought all that well.

Of course, sometimes when you write personally, you are also writing about society, obliquely reflecting topical issues, but not in a way that people would expect you to or in the way that someone trying to make a point would.

I don't set out to transmit a message. I don't write with a political point of view. There are no religious overtones. Looking back at my books, I can say, 'Oh, yes, it is there.' But it's not in my mind when I write.

not all thoughts have to become words!

More than any other poet, Whitman is what we make him; more than any other poet, his greatest value is in what he suggests and implies rather than in what he portrays, and more than any other poet must he wait to be understood by the growth of the taste of himself.