Spoke Quotes
808 Spoke quotes by 624 unique authors
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Digory never spoke on the way back, and the others were shy of speaking to him. He was very sad and he wasn't even sure…
— C.S. Lewis
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When she spoke again it was in the thin, careful and above all brave voice of someone who has pulled themselves together despite overwhelming odds…
— Terry Pratchett
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Crimson flames tied through my ears Rollin' high and mighty traps Pounced with fire on flaming roads Using ideas as my maps "We'll meet on…
— Bob Dylan
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Chapter One. The Bride." He held up the book then. "I'm reading it to you for relax." He practically shoved the book in my face.…
— William Goldman
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In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots…
— Mark Twain
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She felt an enveloping happiness to be alive, a joy made stronger by the certainty that someday it would all come to an end. Afterward…
— Steven Galloway
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She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.
— Voltaire
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A crippled child Said, "How shall I dance?" Let your heart dance We said. Then the invalid said: "How shall I sing?" Let your heart…
— Gabriela Mistral
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While my friend always spoke about the sun, I kept speaking about the clouds, until one day I realized that it was the sun that…
— Henri Nouwen
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What do you believe? I believe that the last and the first suffer equally. Pari passu. Equally? It is not alone in the dark of…
— Cormac McCarthy
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And if someone felt that his life had been an utter failure, and that he himself was only one among millions of wholly unimportant people…
— Michael Ende
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When we three spoke ourselves into human existences the Son of God, we became fully human. We also chose to embrace all the limitation that…
— William P. Young
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He drew forth a phrase from his treasure and spoke it softly to himself: A day of dappled seaborne clouds.
— James Joyce
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(Speaking of the Cistercian monks) A grim fraternity, passing grim lives in that sweet spot, that God had made so bright! Strange that Nature's voices…
— Jerome K. Jerome
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My own feeling about JJ, without knowing anything about him, was that he might have been a gay person, because he had long hair and…
— Nick Hornby
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We are here among you as seekers of refuge from our present-your future-a time of worldwide famine, exhausted fuel supplies, terminal poverty-the end of the…
— Thomas Pynchon
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Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that lie outside books. Now I realized that not infrequently books…
— Umberto Eco
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In our opposed forms of loneliness and self-recognition and recognition of the other, we touched each other often as we spoke; and on shore in…
— Harold Brodkey
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Thus with my lips have I denounced you, while my heart, bleeding within me, called you tender names. It was love lashed by its own…
— Khalil Gibran
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Thin-lipped wisdom spoke at her from the worn chair, hinted at prudence, quoted from that book of cowardice whose author apes the name of common…
— Oscar Wilde
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I wonder how it is we have come to this place in our society where art and nature are spoke in terms of what is…
— Terry Tempest Williams
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Once I spoke the language of the flowers, Once I understood each word the caterpillar said, Once I smiled in secret at the gossip of…
— Shel Silverstein
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There was no pretention here, no hidden meanings in the phrases they spoke, no elaborate plans designed to impress the other. Though it had always…
— Nicholas Sparks
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If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
— W. Somerset Maugham
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I..." He struggled to answer. "When everything was quiet, I went up to the corridor and the curtain in the livingroom was open just a…
— Markus Zusak
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