Aloud Quotes

267 Aloud quotes by 218 unique authors

Prose-it might be speculated-is discourse; poetry ellipsis. Prose is spoken aloud; poetry overheard. The one is presumably articulate and social, a shared language, the voice… — Joyce Carol Oates
Singing aloud leaves you with a sense of levity and contentedness. — Brian Eno
Every time you read a poem aloud to yourself in the presence of others, you are reading it into yourself and them. Voice helps to… — Seamus Heaney
The gay bunting erects his white crest, and gives utterance to the joy he feels in the presence of his brooding mate; the willow grouse… — John James Audubon
If you need proof of how the oral relates to the written, consider that many great novelists, including Joyce and Hemingway, never submitted a piece… — Frank Delaney
Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear. — Garson Kanin
It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more… — William Tecumseh Sherman
Reading a poem aloud to an audience is gestural as much as precise. — Douglas Dunn
An hour or two spent in writing from dictation, another hour or two in reading aloud, a little geography and a little history and a… — Hudson Stuck
In this country you can say aloud or publish just about anything you like. — William Greider
Those expressions are omitted which can not with propriety be read aloud in the family. — Thomas Bowdler
I surrendered to a world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active… — Andrew Wyeth
I was encouraged to read aloud in class and vocalize. — Bob Edwards
A friend is one before whom I may think aloud. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If I had my way books would not be written in English, but in an exceedingly difficult secret language that only skilled professional readers and… — Robertson Davies
Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country could do under first-class management. — Doug Larson
PALMISTRY, n. The 947th method (according to Mimbleshaw's classification) of obtaining money by false pretences. It consists in reading character in the wrinkles made by… — Ambrose Bierce
YESTERDAY, n. The infancy of youth, the youth of manhood, the entire past of age. But yesterday I should have thought me blest To stand… — Ambrose Bierce
Just another face among the crowd, With thoughts which are never spoken aloud, Taken for granted day by day, Missing out on having my say,… — Melchor Lim
Some places speak distinctly. Certain dank gardens cry aloud for a murder; certain old houses demand to be haunted; certain coasts are set apart for… — Robert Louis Stevenson
Why can I not see you in a crowd, true heart pounding aloud. All I see are players and peers that fear. I know that… — Michael Sullivan
For greater than all the material possessions that I possess in my freedom to chose, My freedom to live for that I know If I… — Simpleman
Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul.… — Unknown Author
The people to whom your fathers told of the living God, and taught to call 'Father,' and whom the sons now seek to despoil and… — Unknown Author
I'm writin music..I think aloud when I think off loud. — Unknown Author

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