„I act as the tongue of you,… tied in your mouth…. in mine it begins to be loosened.“

— Walt Whitman
„I'm so great even I get tongue-tied talking to myself.“
— Douglas Adams
„Ha! to forget. How childish! I feel you in my bones. Your silence screams in my ears. You may nail your mouth shut, you may cut out your tongue, can you keep yourself from existing? Will you stop your thoughts.“
— Jean Paul Sartre
„I soon discovered that if you keep your mouth shut, people are apt to believe you know everything, and they begin to feel freer and freer to tell you anything, anxious to show that they know something, too.“
— Audre Lorde