Rap and spoken word have reawakened the country to poetry in itself. Texting and Twitter encourage creative uses of casual language, in… — John McWhorter Copy Share Image
“The study of a language . . . allows its students to hear a people's 'interpretation (or misinterpretation) of messages from environment… — Sy Montgomery Copy Share Image
“You are capable of doing everything you are afraid of doing, If only you would energize and motivate the Magical thing would… — Sereda Aleta Dailey Copy Share Image
Beta males and females historically fare poorly in anchor positions, and whoever has the dominate, or more alpha, personality will always win… — Dana Loesch Copy Share Image
Don't forget that few people are likely to tell more than a small part of the truth: no one tells much of… — Halldór Laxness Copy Share Image
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“I know that fewer people are won over by the written word than by the spoken word and that every great movement… — Adolf Hitler 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
“He doesn’t understand the subtleties of slights and pains, that it is not the big events that hurt the most but rather… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
The real meaning of the spoken word has to be demonstrated by practical deeds — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
I used to be skeptical when educators and technologists predicted that we may be entering a new era of oral culture, in… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
There was something about stand-up that music wouldn't give me, which was my love of the spoken word and the mercurial tendency… — Bill Bailey Copy Share Image
It's not a natural translation, transition, to take something from stage to screen. Onstage your action is communicated through the spoken word… — Tracy Letts Copy Share Image
My band, Miles Long, is a jazz-funk spoken word band. There's jazz sensibilities, but I'm a bass player, so I'm very much… — Malcolm-Jamal Warner Copy Share Image
“We’ve been called to share Jesus with the lost and give our testimonies anytime we have the opportunity to tell another person… — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
“Welcome to His poem. His play. His novel. Skip the bowls of fruit and statues. Let the page flick your thumbs. This… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
The spoken word converts individual knowledge into mutual knowledge, and there is no way back once you've gone over that cliff. Saying… — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
I grew up in the spoken-word community. Before everybody had a home studio, or before we could get booked for shows, open… — Macklemore Copy Share Image
“We're pupils of the religions—Catholic, Protestant, Jewish . . . Well, the Christian religions. Those who directed French education down through the… — Louis Ferdinand Céline Copy Share Image
Spoken word teaches that if you have the ability to express yourself and the courage to present those stories and opinions, you… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
There is an intelligence factor that works with the spoken word. With words, you have to understand meaning and nuances and things… — Tommy Chong Copy Share Image
Orphans, dead parents, lonely children at Christmas, morose spoken word recordings, everything you love about the holidays. Move the turkey over so… — April Winchell 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
The broad mass of a nation will more easily fall victim to a big lie than a small one. The greater the… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
