Aloud Quotes

267 Aloud quotes by 218 unique authors

A felon could plead "benefit of clergy" and be saved by [reading aloud] what was aptly enough termed the "neck verse", which was very usually… — William Hazlitt
Love is an actual need, an urgent requirement of the heart, he read aloud from an old essay on marriage that he found in his… — Jan Karon
The great pulsation of nature beats too in my breast, and when I carol aloud, I am answered by a thousand-fold echo. I hear a… — Heinrich Heine
At any rate, nothing was more characteristic of him [Walter Benjamin] in the thirties than the little notebooks with black covers which he always carried… — Hannah Arendt
Some places speak distinctly. Certain dark gardens cry aloud for a murder; certain old houses demand to be haunted; certain coasts are set apart for… — Robert Louis Stevenson
Learning is often spoken of as if we are watching the open pages of all the books which we have ever read, and then, when… — Alfred North Whitehead
Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities. We strive in vain to look beyond the heights. We cry… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Anyone should be very suspicious of a sentence he's written that can't be read aloud easily. — Andy Rooney
The real satisfaction which praise can afford, is when what is repeated aloud agrees with the whispers of conscience, by showing us that we have… — Samuel Johnson
Prose-it might be speculated-is discourse; poetry ellipsis. Prose is spoken aloud; poetry overheard. — Joyce Carol Oates
We are writers. We danced with words, as children, in what became familiar patterns. The words became our friends and our companions, and without even… — Anna Quindlen
Americans have never quite digested television. The mystique which should fade grows stronger. We make celebrities not only of the men who cause events but… — Joe McGinniss
It does not always help to analyze and think about problems with your rational mind. Sometimes it is far more effective to turn to your… — Shakti Gawain
A surprising number [of novels] have been read aloud to me, and I like all if moderately good, and if they do not end unhappily-against… — Charles Darwin
[Herschel and Humboldt] stirred up in me a burning zeal to add even the most humble contribution to the noble structure of Natural Science. No… — Charles Darwin
Reading your own material aloud forces you to listen. — Stephen Ambrose
We didn't have television in those days, and many people didn't even have radios. My mother would read aloud to my father and me in… — Beverly Cleary
I read my books aloud before they were published. — Beverly Cleary
I read stories aloud at every stage. I listen to my writer friends when they kindly offer criticism. I listen to my husband when he… — Bonnie Jo Campbell
The apostles were moved, not so much by an intellectual apprehension, as by a spiritual illumination. They met men, and the need of those men… — Roland Allen
I love to read aloud. — Cornelia Funke
Secret thinker sometimes listening aloud. — David Bowie
I love love songs. But I love pop music as well: Girls Aloud, Kylie, the Spice Girls, East 17, Mika. — Adele
Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the weight of words… — Helen Dunmore
Over and over again did the Attorney-General cry out aloud, in the agony of his cause, 'What is to become of painting if the critics… — James Whistler

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