verbose communication Quotes

Last words are for those fools who believe they have not yet said enough.

He who thinks much says but little in proportion to his thoughts. He selects that language which will convey his ideas in the most explicit and direct manner. He tries to compress as much thought as possible into a few words. On the contrary, the man who talks everlastingly and promiscuously, who seems to have an exhaustless magazine of sound, crowds so many words into his thoughts that he always obscures, and very frequently conceals them.

Talking much is a sign of vanity, for the one who is lavish with words is cheap in deeds.

Loquacity with tongue or pen is its own reward -- or, punishment.

He was a guy who talked with commas, like a heavy novel. Over the phone anyway.

I have always had this failing - that I cannot explain myself, as I have said, except at the cost of many words.

There's a lot of chatter in basketball and, rightfully, you want players to be talking to each other... But sometimes in practice, it gets too verbose... so I tried to take things out of the ordinary and make them special so they'd understand the difference.

Their talk was endless, compulsive, and indulgent, sometimes sounding like the remains of the English language after having been hashed over by nuclear war survivors for a few hundred years.