Spoke Quotes

808 Spoke quotes by 624 unique authors

I am Oz, the Great and Terrible," spoke the Beast, in a voice that was one great roar. Who are you, and why do you… — L. Frank Baum
Once i spoke the language of the flowers,Once i undrestand each word the caterpillar said,Once i smiled in secret at the gossip of the starlings, — Shel Silverstein
We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Once it happened, as I lay awake at night, that I suddenly spoke in verses, in verses so beautiful and strange that I did not… — Hermann Hesse
But the tale or narrative set in the past may have its particular time-free value; and the candid reader will not misunderstand me, will not… — Patrick O'Brian
I had found a new friend. The surprising thing is where I’d found him – not up a tree or sulking in the shade, or… — Lloyd Jones
In this sense love is of a different order to any other phenomenon, for it may be both an event and a sign of that… — Clive Barker
At that moment, it seemed to him that time stood still, and the Soul of the World surged within him. When he looked into her… — Paulo Coelho
Needless to say, the fact that he actually spoke to me at all practically caused me to pass out. And then the fact that he… — Meg Cabot
Dr. Adler had instructed me to always say whatever I was thinking, but this was difficult for me, for the act of thinking and the… — Peter Cameron
I found myself thinking about President William McKinley, the third American president to be assassinated. He lived for several days after he was shot, and… — John Green
What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Actually we did not have the feelings we said we had until we spoke them--at least I didn't; to phrase them was to invent them… — Philip Roth
When he spoke, the roughness was gone from his voice. "I could tell you I did it. That's what you wanna hear. I could tell… — Sue Monk Kidd
He thinks great folly, child,' said Aslan. "This world is bursting with life for these few days because the song with which I called it… — C.S. Lewis
My uncle ordered popovers from the restaurant's bill of fare. And, when they were served, he regarded them with a penetrating stare. Then he spoke… — Dr. Seuss
During the terrible years of the Yekhov terror I spent seventeen months in the prison queues in Leningrad. One day someone ‘identified’ me. Then a… — Anna Akhmatova
He accused me of being Dumbledore's man through and through." "How very rude of him." "I told him I was." Dumbledore opened his mouth to… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
He hardly ever spoke of magic, and when he did it was like a history lesson and no one could bear to listen to him. — Susanna Clarke
The first night Stephen and I slept together, he whispered numbers into my ear: long, high numbers -- distances between planets, seconds in a life.… — Peter Cameron
He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke. — Cormac McCarthy
Mr. Cruncher... always spoke of the year of our Lord as Anna Dominoes: apparently under the impression that the Christian era dated from the invention… — Charles Dickens
The last words Albus Dumbledore spoke to the pair of us?' Harry is the best hope we have. Trust him. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
She spoke of evenings in the country making popcorn on the porch. Once this would have gladdened my heart but because her heart was not… — Jack Kerouac
That was the change in her from ten years ago; that, indeed, was her reward, this haunting, magical sadness which spoke straight to the heart… — Evelyn Waugh

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