Aloud Quotes

267 Aloud quotes by 218 unique authors

Bursts as a wave that from the clouds impends, And swell'd with tempests on the ship descends; White are the decks with foam; the winds… — Homer
The Bible is not primarily a written or printed text to be scrutinized in private, in a scholar's study or a contemplative cell. It is… — Thomas Merton
To fight aloud is very brave, but gallanter, I know, who charge within the bosom, the Cavalry of Woe. — Emily Dickinson
To fight aloud, is very brave— But gallanter, I know Who charge within the bosom The Cavalry of Wo— Who win, and nations do not… — Emily Dickinson
Reading one's own poems aloud is letting the cat out of the bag. You may have always suspected bits of a poem to be overweighted,… — Dylan Thomas
I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they… — Sigmund Freud
You could time a suburban story by your watch: it lasts as long as it takes a small furry animal that's lonely to find friends,… — Rachel Cusk
In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud: Under the bludgeoning of chance my head is bloody, but unbowed. — William Ernest Henley
In our home there was always prayer - aloud, proud and unapologetic. — Lyndon B. Johnson
It might be an idea for all literary critics to read the books they analyse aloud - it certainly helps to fix them in the… — Will Self
I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the… — William Tecumseh Sherman
There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud. — Carol Shields
Recounting of a life story, a mind thinking aloud leads one inevitably to the consideration of problems which are no longer psychological but spiritual. — Paul Tournier
At every crisis in one's life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving. — Woodrow Wilson
For it is probable that when people talk aloud, the selves (of which there may be more than two thousand) are conscious of disserverment, and… — Virginia Woolf
You want to cry aloud for your mistakes. But to tell the truth the world doesn't need any more of that sound. — Mary Oliver
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
In one thing you have not changed, dear friend," said Aragorn: "you still speak in riddles." "What? In riddles?" said Gandalf. "No! For I was… — J.R.R. Tolkien
People speak because they are afraid of silence. They speak mechanically whether aloud or to themselves. They are intoxicated by this vocal gruel that ensnares… — AndreÃ¯ Makine
The mother memories that are closest to my heart are the small gentle ones that I have carried over from the days of my childhood.… — Margaret Sanger
Thinking aloud is a habit which is responsible for most of mankind's misery. — Benjamin Franklin
People like you should be stopped, Mr. Woodrow,' she mused aloud, with a puzzled shake of her wise head. 'You think you're solving the world's… — John le Carre
Digestion of words as well; I often read aloud to myself in my writing corner in the library, where no one can hear me, for… — Alberto Manguel
Reading aloud means no skipping, no skimming, no cutting to the chase. — Anne Fadiman
If you truly love a book, you should sleep with it, write in it, read aloud from it, and fill its pages with muffin crumbs. — Anne Fadiman

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