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1040 Spoken quotes by 791 unique authors

Is the scene always visual? It can be aural, the frame can be linguistic: I can fall in love with a sentence spoken to me:… — Roland Barthes
In the speech sound wave, one word runs into the next seamlessly; there are no little silences between spoken words the way there are white… — Steven Pinker
Sorrow spoken lends a little courage to the speaker. — Walter Wangerin
Basically I'm in the idea business -- whether it's a musical idea or a spoken idea ... If you wind up with a political system… — Frank Zappa
Comeback records always worry me, especially when they're made by one of my heroes, and I'd heard stories about Gil Scott-Heron recently, about drug arrests… — Will Hermes
Poetry is an art spoken, as if sung, in relation to other human beings. — David Biespiel
I'm a very soft-spoken person. I don't throw furniture. I don't throw tantrums. — Jennifer Yuh Nelson
Perfecting one's intellect causes one to speak less, and those words spoken will be adorned with wisdom. — Ali ibn Abi Talib
I had furthermore spoken on the assumption that Russia would mobilize, whereas the assumption of the German Government had hitherto been, officially, that Serbia would… — Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon
If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to earnest. — Plautus
The word unto the prophet spoken Was writ on tablets yet unbroken: The word by seers or sibyls told, In groves of oak or fanes… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The wonder of an artist's performance grows with the range of his penetration, with the instinctive sympathy that makes him, in his mortal isolation, considerate… — George Santayana
It is said that the American vocabulary has declined by half in the past few decades. It's a tragic instance of desertification following upon monocultural… — Stephanie Mills
Spoken language is merely a series of squeaks. — Alfred North Whitehead
The spoken discourse may roll on strongly as the great tidal wave; but, like the wave, it dies at last feebly on the sands. It… — Albert Pike
I have no interest in the printed word. I would continue to write if there were no writing and no print. I put my words… — John Steinbeck
This is the risk: the primary word can only be spoken with the whole being. He who gives himself to it may withhold nothing of… — Martin Buber
I believed in global warming after Al Gore's movie made money; the market had spoken. — Stephen Colbert
All epoch-making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written, but by the spoken word. — Adolf Hitler
Words of affection, howsoe'er expressed, The latest spoken still are deem'd the best. — Joanna Baillie
You have power over my body but the Lord Jesus hath power over my body and soul; and assure yourselves thus much, you do as… — Anne Hutchinson
I try to create work that doesn't make viewers feel they're being spoken down to, so they feel open participation. — Jeff Koons
But on one man's soul it hath broken, / A light that doth not depart; / And his look, or a word he hath spoken,… — Arthur O'Shaughnessy
The words spoken by the leader of the free world can expand the frontiers of freedom or shrink them. — Mitt Romney
In order for peace to reign, one must speak the truth, and that is why I have spoken of a political abduction, ... ... Far… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide

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