Involuntary Speech

Famous quotes containing the words involuntary and/or speech:

“It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a process stumbling through emotional entanglements, sudden irrational convictions, involuntary gleams of insight, rationalized prejudices, and blocks of panic and inertia, finally to reach a completely incommunicable intuition.”
—Northrop Frye (b. 1912)

“In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defence of the indefensible.”
—George Orwell (1903–1950)