Speech Quotes
![Margaret Atwood quote: "speech to him was a task, a battle, words mustered behind his..."](/pic/357378/600x316/quotation-margaret-atwood-speech-to-him-was-a-task-a-battle-words.jpg)
Speech, tennis, music, skiing, manners, love- you try them waking and perhaps balk at the jump, and then you're over. You've caught the rhythm of them once and for all, in your sleep at night. The city, of course, can wreck it. So much insomnia. So many rhythms collide. The salesgirl, the landlord, the guests, the bystanders, sixteen varieties of social circumstance in a day. Everyone has the power to call your whole life into question here. Too many people have access to your state of mind....
Renata Adler
![Ferdinand de Saussure quote: "Speech has both an individual and a social side, and we cannot..."](/pic/314574/600x316/quotation-ferdinand-de-saussure-speech-has-both-an-individual-and-a.jpg)
Speech destroys the function of love, I think-that's a hell of a thing for a writer to say, I guess, but I believe it to be true. If you speak to tell a deer you mean it no harm, it glides away with a single flip of its tail. Love has teeth; they bite; the wounds never close. No word, no combination of words can close those love bites. it's the other way around, that's the joke. If those wounds dry up, the words die with them.
Stephen King
![Thomas Mann quote: "Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most..."](/pic/260439/600x316/quotation-thomas-mann-speech-is-civilization-itself-the-word-even-the.jpg)