Spoken Quotes
1040 Spoken quotes by 791 unique authors
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I've been writing since I was very young, even before I was a teenager. As far as I'm concerned, I am a writer - whether…
— Dylan Moran
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I don't care how someone lives or how good their spoken English is. I do all of my interviews on Skype text chat - all…
— Matt Mullenweg
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When the truth is spoken, it doesn't need to be adorned. It just needs to be simply stated, and often it only needs to be…
— James Nachtwey
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I have on many occasions spoken my mind from stage. I have offered organizations table space by the merch booth. I have donated a dollar-a-ticket,…
— Conor Oberst
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Sometimes you need faith and victory spoken over your life. Words have created power. When you receive them into your spirit, they can ignite seeds…
— Joel Osteen
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That which I have set out in Latin is not my words but the words of God and of apostles and prophets, who of course…
— Saint Patrick
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That distinctive presidential conduct is now gone forever, banished to the snows of yesteryear by Barack Obama. From the beginning of his presidency to the…
— John Podhoretz
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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
— Marcel Proust
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Dickens is a very underrated writer at the moment. Everyone in his time admired him but I think right now he's not spoken of enough.
— Anne Rice
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I think that certainly the artists of the '40s, '50s and '60s were fighting a very conformist society, which didn't give them enough space to…
— Anne Roiphe
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The words spoken by the leader of the free world can expand the frontiers of freedom or shrink them. When Ronald Reagan called on Gorbachev…
— Mitt Romney
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I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years…
— Carl Sandburg
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Be able to correctly pronounce the words you would like to speak and have excellent spoken grammar.
— Marilyn vos Savant
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Although spoken English doesn't obey the rules of written language, a person who doesn't know the rules thoroughly is at a great disadvantage.
— Marilyn vos Savant
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Everything starts with writing. I heard Nikki Giovanni and was blown away. I just thought 'wow'; she was writing from a black girl's perspective, and…
— Jill Scott
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O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a…
— Walter Scott
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I believe that dance communicates man's deepest, highest and most truly spiritual thoughts and emotions far better than words, spoken or written.
— Ted Shawn
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I want to promote poetry to the point where you got all the baldhead kids running around doing poetry, getting the music out of the…
— Russell Simmons
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Every writer I've ever spoken to feels fraudulent in some way or other.
— Stephen Sondheim
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Your spoken voice is a part of it - not a big part of it, but it's something. It puts people at ease, and once…
— Bruce Springsteen
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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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My parents are both very funny but they're also relatively soft-spoken, normal human beings while I'm just a lunatic. I don't know where this loud,…
— Emma Stone
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In my day you didn't speak until spoken to.
— Andre Leon Talley
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Hoping to instill my love of learning in other children, I taught my first class at a local elementary school the year my first book,…
— Adora Svitak
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I cannot improve on those spoken for many years by a true legend who preceded me at CBS News. He would say, simply, 'good night,…
— Mike Wallace
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