Spoken word Quotes

“The eighth ritual is the Ritual of the Spoken Word.”

— Robin S. Sharma

It was my ambition all of my life to be master of the spoken word.

— Winston Churchill

The written word endures, the spoken word disappears

— Neil Postman

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Acting for me was the gospel, the love of the spoken word.

— Jeanne Moreau

“Things spoken in love always become reality.”

— Amy Neftzger

Compared to the spoken word, a picture is a pitiful thing, indeed.

— Charles Osgood

I like spoken-word as much as the singing word.

— Loren Mazzacane Connors

“Poetry isn’t an island, it is the bridge. Poetry isn’t a ship, it is the lifeboat. Poetry isn’t swimming. Poetry is water.”

— Kamand Kojouri

If intelligence is the triumph of life, the spoken word is the marvellous means by which this intelligence is manifested.

— Maria Montessori

“There are two things that cannot be taken back- the sped arrow and the spoken word.”

— Jane Casey

I've tried to use my love of music, and spoken word performance to create companion pieces for the book.

— Rich Ferguson

“Do not think about failure. Remember that even stars fall sometimes, and when they do people wish on them.”

— Maddie Godfrey

“When evil strives to overcome good, when firepower is greater than the spoken word, then death rides a winged horse.”

— British Army Parachute Regiment

I was always into poetry and writing. So the urgency of spoken word is something that really has always appealed to me.

— Mat Kearney

“Books are love letters (or apologies) passed between us, adding a layer of conversation beyond our spoken words.”

— Donalyn Miller

Speech recognition is utterly crap for writing fiction. If you try reading a novel aloud you'll soon figure out why - written…

— Charles Stross

“If our African ancestors failed in one thing, it was relying too heavily on the spoken word. Legacy lives in writing, not…

— Mwanandeke Kindembo

Comedy was something I picked up trying to perfect my art through spoken word. I got on YouTube just to show off…

— Spoken Reasons

I wanted to do 'Manzanar' because I'd never done anything like it before. The spoken word there is between a drama and…

— John Cho

Written words differ from spoken words in being material structures. A spoken word is a process in the physical world, having an…

— Bertrand Russell

Every spoken word double-crosses us. The written word is the only tolerable form of communication, as it isn't a stone in a…

— Fernando Pessoa

God did not write a book and send it by messenger to be read at a distance by unaided minds. He spoke…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

The spoken word is never really effective unless it is backed up by a life, but it is also true that the…

— D. Elton Trueblood

I used to be skeptical when educators and technologists predicted that we may be entering a new era of oral culture, in…

— Tom Peters

What if it turns out there really are witches and vampires and werewolves living right here alongside us? After all, what better…

— Sergei Lukyanenko

Our view of man will remain superficial so long as we fail to go back to that origin [of silence], so long…

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

The first time I ever performed spoken word poetry in front of a big crowd, it totally failed. It ended, people barely…

— Phil Kay

I'm a first-time father, and it was amazing to me to learn that my son could actually use sign language before the…

— Matt Reeves

If the lost word is lost, if the spent word is spent If the unheard, unspoken Word is unspoken, unheard; Still is…

— Anonymous

There is no one who can stop you; you find a mic, a crowd, a set of ears, and nowadays, a camera…

— Bao Phi

Photographs have the kind of authority over imagination to-day, which the printed word had yesterday, and the spoken word before that. They…

— Walter Lippmann

“English grammar and composition is difficult even for the English, but worse and worse for a Welsh boy. He speaks, reads, writes,…

— Richard Llewellyn

“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

“For so long considered a second-rate category to other writing genres, Science Fiction should be allotted its true place in literature. The…

— Joseph Duda

“Among the many forms of alienation, the most frequent one is alienation in language. If I express a feeling with a word,…

— Erich Fromm

“To be shaken out of the ruts of ordinary perception, to be shown for a few timeless hours the outer and the…

— Aldous Huxley

“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

“We're pupils of the religions—Catholic, Protestant, Jewish . . . Well, the Christian religions. Those who directed French education down through the…

— Louis Ferdinand Céline

“I wrote too many poems in a language I did not yet know how to speak But I know now it doesn't…

— Andrea Gibson