expression Quotes

I've always thought stand-up comedians were the oral storytellers of our time, because they know rhetoric, they know delivery, they know timing, they know all of these things that you can only learn by telling a story out loud and interacting with an audience.

I love the power of words - no music or special effects - and I want to demonstrate that power.

A letter does not blush.

You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.

I quote others only in order the better to express myself.

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

The pen is the tongue of the mind.

Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.

It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure.

In an easy matter. Anybody can be eloquent.