“Every thought shines a light. Every thought shows the way.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
To me, presentations are the most powerful device. You can't really name a movement that didn't start with the spoken word. — Nancy Duarte Copy Share Image
“There are two things that cannot be taken back- the sped arrow and the spoken word.” — Jane Casey Copy Share Image
I've tried to use my love of music, and spoken word performance to create companion pieces for the book. — Rich Ferguson Copy Share Image
If intelligence is the triumph of life, the spoken word is the marvellous means by which this intelligence is manifested. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
“Do not think about failure. Remember that even stars fall sometimes, and when they do people wish on them.” — Maddie Godfrey Copy Share Image
“When evil strives to overcome good, when firepower is greater than the spoken word, then death rides a winged horse.” — British Army Parachute Regiment Copy Share Image
“Books are love letters (or apologies) passed between us, adding a layer of conversation beyond our spoken words.” — Donalyn Miller Copy Share Image
“There is no going back in life, no return, no second chance. I cannot call back the spoken word or the accomplished… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
Candor compels me to admit that I have no conclusive research to support my view that jingles are less persuasive than the… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
Human beings do not relate to written words in the same way that they will relate to spoken words. They do not… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Contention in our families drives the Spirit of the Lord away. It also drives many of our family members away. Contention ranges… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
While the spoken word can travel faster, you cant take it home in your hand. Only the written word can be absorbed… — Kingman Brewster, Jr Copy Share Image
“Even the pool of ink could be dried out and writing papers could be burnt to ashes forever but the spoken word… — Euginia Herlihy Copy Share Image
Oh! for this baptism of fire! when every spoken word for Jesus shall be a thunderbolt, and every prayer shall bring forth… — Abbott Eliot Kittredge Copy Share Image
All of my works are performance pieces, as is true for many writers of color, writers who have indigenous roots - because… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I've never really considered doing stand up, but I have done readings/spoken word things fairly often in which I'll just tell a… — Laurie Notaro Copy Share Image
“Every spoken word carries great risk. Therefore, it is better to remain silent if one does not know how to talk. Talking… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“By their dependence on the spoken word for information, people were drawn together into a tribal mesh . . . the spoken… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
Our priorities are most visible in how we use our time. Someone has said, “Three things never come back—the spent arrow, the… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
And there's wordplay and there's rhythms and you have to be able to get the poetry out of it. You have to… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
“You know those little moments when an unexpected act or a spoken word affects your heart with sweet, satiating intensity―a simple gesture… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Of the modes of persuasion furnished by the spoken word there are three kinds. The first kind depends on the personal character… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Paintings may not have nearly the power to convert people that the printed or spoken word has, but each man has his… — William Kurelek Copy Share Image
“A man's words reveal, first, the man. The words are not the man, and yet they reveal him faithfully and are to… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
“The holy scriptures and the spoken word of the living prophets give emphasis to the fundamental principles and doctrines of the gospel.… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
“Among the many forms of alienation, the most frequent one is alienation in language. If I express a feeling with a word,… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“To be shaken out of the ruts of ordinary perception, to be shown for a few timeless hours the outer and the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“English grammar and composition is difficult even for the English, but worse and worse for a Welsh boy. He speaks, reads, writes,… — Richard Llewellyn Copy Share Image
“Sight isolates, sound incorporates. Whereas sight situates the observer outside what he views, at a distance, sound pours into the hearer. Vision… — Walter J. Ong Copy Share Image
When you are writing a spoken word poem, the tools you're working with are your voice, your body, how it's going to… — Phil Kay Copy Share Image
All my big heroes are literary, writers. I'd love to meet Jimmy Hendrix or John Coltrane, but I'd much rather meet Thomas… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
“What if it turns out there really are witches and vampires and werewolves living right here alongside us? After all, what better… — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image
I was always into poetry and writing. So the urgency of spoken word is something that really has always appealed to me. — Mat Kearney Copy Share Image
