Spoke Quotes

808 Spoke quotes by 624 unique authors

Happy". I had not heard that word since Mr. Milgrom spoke it at the last Hanukkah. I asked him the question that had been on… — Jerry Spinelli
Llonio said life was a net for luck; to Hevydd the Smith life was a forge; and to Dwyvach the Weaver-Woman a loom. They spoke… — Lloyd Alexander
She, too, spoke only when the queen or king addressed her first, but she looked searchingly at every supplicant, and her clear face said that… — Robin McKinley
The intense horror of nightmare came over me: I tried to draw back my arm, but the hand clung to it, and a most melancholy… — Emily Bronte
She stood before him and surrendered herself to him and sky, forest, and brook all came toward him in new and resplendent colors, belonged to… — Hermann Hesse
I did not know whether I would ever speak to her or not or, if I spoke to her, how I could tell her of… — James Joyce
Everything about her spoke of alternatives and possibilities that if considered too deeply would wreak havoc with the neat plan I had laid out for… — Tsitsi Dangarembga
Drunk, Jane spoke as though she were Nancy Drew. I was a fool for a girl with a dainty lexicon. — Michael Chabon
She stepped closer to one of the statues. It looked wide-eyed, almost afraid as she reached out her hand. One of the women reached out… — Melissa Marr
My playing had called to another human being at last. Surely, she could be no other than my own true love. Slowly, I got to… — Cameron Dokey
He spoke of human solitude, about the intrinsic loneliness of a sophisticated mind, one that is capable of reason and poetry but which grasps at… — Nicole Krauss
You've got a lifetime to mull over the Buddhist understanding of interconnectedness." He spoke every sentence as if he'd written it down, memorized it, and… — John Green
I didn’t want my picture taken because I was going to cry. I didn’t know why I was going to cry, but I knew that… — Sylvia Plath
Think twice before you speak, and then you may be able to say something more insulting than if you spoke right out at once. — Evan Esar
I'm not going to wear a red dress," she said. "It would look stunning, My Lady," she called. She spoke to the bubbles gathered on… — Kristin Cashore
And yet, even as she spoke, she knew that she did not wish to come back. not to stay, not to live. She loved the… — Maud Hart Lovelace
At least I was true. My intellectual abilities gave me a release, and an excuse. I shunned company because I preferred books; and the dreams… — Robin McKinley
You lie, in faith; for you are call'd plain Kate, And bonny Kate and sometimes Kate the curst; But Kate, the prettiest Kate in Christendom… — William Shakespeare
Neither the mouse nor the boy was the least bit surprised that each could understand the other. Two creatures who shared a love for motorcycles… — Beverly Cleary
Do you suppose the St. Swithin's furnace-man was my one true love? Since I never spoke to him, it seems unlikely, but at least it… — Mary Ann Shaffer
Enter my first neighbor - a woman who spoke in complete, coherent sentences, who ate with a knife and fork and who only cried at… — Erma Bombeck
And still Meriadoc the hobbit stood there blinking through his tears, and no one spoke to him, indeed none seemed to heed him. He brushed… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Anna spoke not only naturally and intelligently, but intelligently and casually, without attaching any value to her own thoughts, yet giving great value to the… — Leo Tolstoy
Did Lovelace's forces find you? Did Jabor break in?" He spoke slowly through clenched teeth. "I went to get a newspaper" This is getting better… — Jonathan Stroud
I never saw a moor, I never saw the sea; Yet know I how the heather looks, And what a wave must be. I never… — Emily Dickinson

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