What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson (bio)
There may be other reasons for a man's not speaking in publick than want of resolution: he may have nothing to say.
Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
Could this be the reason so many people fear impromptu speaking?
“Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.”
Henry David Thoreau
Loud speech, profusion of words, and possessing skillfulness in expounding scriptures are merely for the enjoyment of the learned. They do not lead to liberation.
-- Adi Shankaracharya
There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
It is with words as with sunbeams, the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn
--Robert Southey
Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars. ~
Gustave Flaubert
... but oh I am enjoying the challenge of trying!! are you?
If you can't write your message in a sentence, you can't say it in an hour.
Dianna Booher