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Quotes About Vocalization

In any case, e lengeege weth e smell nember ef vewels cen remeen quete expresseve, so we cannot conclude that a hominid with a restricted vowel space had little language.
~ Steven Pinker
Lot of talky-talk in there, they had to open the windows to let the words out
~ Gregory Maguire
I had a slight touch of Tourette's, which means you talk to yourself and bark and cry out at night.
~ Dan Aykroyd
Being created in the image of our omnipotent God, our spoken words are potent. Speaking what we believe—even from ourselves to ourselves—is like inviting our souls to a pep rally. Vocalized words stir enthusiasm.
~ Beth Moore
Instead of silencing artists, is it possible that antidepressants can actually help them vocalize their creative ambitions?
~ Andrew Shaffer
Talking isn't hard," she whispered to herself. "You've been doing it since you were two. You know how to do this.
~ Susan Mallery
So she'll cry. And then she'll stop crying. Babies don't have many ways to express themselves. They cry because they don't know how to say, 'Stop it!' or 'I want it!' or 'That seat isn't as comfortable as your arms.
~ Judith Arnold
It's quite simple," she says, while Rosentreter wonders, not without anxiety, whether she can read his thoughts. "You draw air into your lungs, you raise your soft palate, air passes over your vocal cords, and you move your lips and tongue. Or, to put it another way, you speak.
~ Juli Zeh
Voice is the first instrument.
~ Sixto Rodriguez
Accent is the soul of language; it gives to it both feeling and truth.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
One reason chimps can't talk is that they appear to lack the ability to make subtle shapes with tongue and lips to form complex sounds.
~ Bill Bryson
Well here again that don't apply But I've gotta use words when I talk to you.
~ T.S. Eliot
The inner aim of thought is never fully realized until it ripens into vocal utterances through which others can have access- albeit indirect- to our personal experience. In fact,an inner experience only achieves true completeness when it has been spoken. No matter how profound an insight one may gain, as long as it stays inarticulately concealed within an introspective silence, it remains one-dimensional and incomplete.
~ Stephen Batchelor
We ought to call ourselves Homo clamorans . Noisemaking man.
~ Stephen Baxter
Sonofamotherfuckinggoddamnbitch! JaysustiittyfuckingChrist!" That was Lor. Man of few words.
~ Karen Marie Moning
In the beginning was the word, and it was spoken.
~ N. Scott Momaday
Soun ys noght but eyr ybroken,And every speche that ys spoken,Lowd or pryvee, foul or fair,In his substaunce ys but air.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
I first started to sing when I started to talk. As soon as I could form words and sounds together, I was singing.
~ Leah LaBelle
I think that if I could give a name to what I feel it would go away. Find the word that describes the feeling and say it over and over until it's merely a sound.
~ Carrie Fisher
I always found that really helpful; talking something through and vocalising what's wrong. I've found that internalising things just makes them come up in uglier ways further down the line, so it's definitely something I've tried to maintain throughout my life.
~ Arlo Parks
Speaking this language would be out of the question, given the limited bandwidth of the human larynx.
~ Ted Chiang
I think most people don't understand: I have nothing to do with that. I just open my mouth, and it comes out that way.
~ Johnny Mathis
I readied myself for the great effort of speaking with the throat-and-belly instead of the mind-and-heart. It is altogether a different skill.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
~ Ben Jonson