"A voice, a little while ago / still in my heart is singing, / my heart has been wounded / by the song of Lindoro (tr. from Italian "Una voce poco fa / qui nel cor mi risuonò; /il mio cor ferito è già,/e Lindor fu che il piagò.")"

"But I will aggravate my voice so that I will roar you as gently as any sucking dove."

"Her voice was ever soft, Gentle and low, an excellent thing in woman."

"The Buddha preaches the Law with a single voice, but each living being understands it in his own way."

"...the works of artists in clay, marble, and iron, and on canvas are enduring, and eagerly sought for. But the most wonderful of all, the power of the human voice, goes to the winds and is lost forever."

"The Angel ended, and in Adam's ear So charming left his voice, that he awhile Thought him still speaking, still stood fix'd to hear."

"She has the sort of voice that looks as good when it gets up in the morning as it does when heard under ideal conditions."

"If there was a lot of emotion in my voice today, it's because we've all been waiting for this day for a long time. It felt so great, … the people at this company are doing the best work of their lives, the best work that Apple has ever done."

"His voice no touch of harmony admits, Irregularly deep, and shrill by fits. The two extremes appear like man and wife Coupled together for the sake of strife."

"The devil hath not, in all his quiver's choice, An arrow for the heart like a sweet voice."

"I prythee, take the cork out of thy mouth that I may drink thy tidings."

"Little said is soonest mended."

"Le secret d'ennuyer est celui de tout dire."

"Good talkers are only found in Paris."

"She sits tormenting every guest, Nor gives her tongue one moment's rest, In phrases batter'd, stale, and trite, Which modern ladies call polite."

"They never taste who always drink; They always talk who never think."

"His talk was like a stream which runs With rapid change from rock to roses; It slipped from politics to puns; It passed from Mahomet to Moses; Beginning with the laws that keep The planets in their radiant courses, And ending with some precept deep For dressing eels or shoeing horses."

"Oft has it been my lot to mark A proud, conceited, talking spark."

"In general those who nothing have to say Contrive to spend the longest time in doing it."

"Then he will talk—good gods, how he will talk!"

"And the talk slid north, and the talk slid south With the sliding puffs from the hookah-mouth; Four things greater than all things are— Women and Horses and Power and War."

"Talk to him of Jacob's ladder, and he would ask the number of the steps."

"No season now for calm, familiar talk."

"Stop not, unthinking, every friend you meet To spin your wordy fabric in the street; While you are emptying your colloquial pack, The fiend Lumbago jumps upon his back."

"My tongue within my lips I rein; For who talks much must talk in vain."

"Whose talk is of bullocks."

"Persuasion tips his tongue whene'er he talks."

""The time has come," the Walrus said, "To talk of many things: Of shoes—and ships—and sealing-wax— Of cabbages—and kings— And why the sea is boiling hot— And whether pigs have wings."

"At this Helen laughed outright. "Nonsense," she said. "You're not a Christian. You've never thought what you are.—And there are lots of other questions," she continued, "though perhaps we can't ask them yet." Although they had talked so freely they were all uncomfortably conscious that they really knew nothing about each other. "The important questions," Hewet pondered, "the really interesting ones. I doubt that one ever does ask them." Rachel, who was slow to accept the fact that only a very few things can be said even by people who know each other well, insisted on knowing what he meant. "Whether we've ever been in love?" she enquired. "Is that the kind of question you mean?""

"Never does one open the discussion by coming right to the heart of the matter. For the heart of the matter is always somewhere else than where it is supposed to be."

"Talking endlessly is what humankind has most on its mind."

"Talk is cheap, motherfucker!"

"A gentleman, nurse, that loves to hear himself talk, and will speak more in a minute than he will stand to in a month."

"Talkers are no good doers; be assur'd We come to use our hands and not our tongues."

"My lord shall never rest: I'll watch him, tame and talk him out of patience: His bed shall seem a school, his board a shrift."

"Talk with a man out at a window—a proper saying."

"No, pray thee, let it serve for table-talk; Then, howsoe'er thou speak'st, 'mong other things I shall digest it."

"What cracker is this same that deafs our ears With this abundance of superfluous breath?"

"The red wine first must rise In their fair cheeks, my lord; then we shall have 'em Talk us to silence."

"If I chance to talk a little wild, forgive me; I had it from my father."

"Where there is much talk there will be no end to sin, but he who keeps his mouth shut does wisely."

"What doesn't slumber under the shells of us all? One just needs courage to uncover it and be oneself. Or at least to discuss it. There isn't enough discussion in the world."

"Talk can be cheap, very cheap. It can also be costly. "Speak out!" we say. "Why are you afraid to speak out?" we say. In dictatorships, it can be very, very hard to speak out. Many people have been imprisoned or worse for talk. But even in democratic societies, talk can be hard. It can be hard not only in politics but also in high schools and families and churches and professional communities and other arenas. But even in democratic societies, talk can be hard. It can be hard not only in politics but also in high schools and families and churches and professional communities and other arenas... One more word on talking, before I stop talking, at least about this subject: You or I may not like the talker, but talk matters, much of the time. It is especially significant when the talker is lonely — when most around him are keeping mum."

"Lugalbanda lies idle in the mountains, in the faraway places; he has ventured into the Zabu mountains. No mother is with him to offer advice, no father is with him to talk to him. No one is with him whom he knows, whom he values, no confidant is there to talk to him. In his heart he speaks to himself."

"Talk often, but not long. The talent of haranguing in private company is insupportable."

""Minister," said Mr. Slick, "come, cheer up, it makes me kinder dismal to hear you talk so. When Captain McKenzie hanged up them three free and enlightened citizens of ours on board of the—Somers—he gave 'em three cheers. We are worth half a dozen dead men yet, so cheer up. Talk to these friends of ourn, they might think you considerable starch if you don't talk, and talk is cheap, it don't cost nothin' but breath, a scrape of your hind leg, and a jupe of the head, that's a fact."

"Chi parla troppo non può parlar sempre bene."

"Can you hear them? They talk about us, telling lies. Well, that's no surprise."