“Speak up, Charlie,” I say. “If you have something to say, then say it out loud.”
“I nodded, not trusting myself to speak. It's always like that. You think you've blown something off and then you say it out loud and suddenly you're all choked up and pathetic.”
“Wise men speak when they have something to say, fools speak because they have to say something”
“Your actions speak so loudly, I can not hear what you are saying.”
“What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.”
“Before I speak, I have something important to say.”