Spoken Quotes

1040 Spoken quotes by 791 unique authors

I would have spoken, had my heart not been in my throat — Deb Caletti
The spoken word is nothing. It hardly lives longer than an insect! Only the written word is eternal. - Balbulus — Cornelia Funke
RJD was pretty much heavy metal personified, a tiny 5-foot-4-inch sorcerer with a mangy mane, demonic eyes and sly grin, all coupled to a simply… — Mark Morford
Other people have faces; Susan and Jinny have faces; they are here. Their world is the real world. The things they lift are heavy. They… — Virginia Woolf
...women are elephants and watch the way you say that in front of them because they'll think you're calling them fat and there's no coming… — Melina Marchetta
If you are feeling more yourself, there is a problem best addressed immediately," said the queen. "In my nightshirt?" The king wriggled, as ever, out… — Megan Whalen Turner
All I did was go to sleep. There shouldn’t be anything safer than that. (Kiara) Spoken like a true civilian. Trust me, princess, that’s the… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Do I feel ancient to you now?" he murmered. "Too different from the person you loved before you knew this?" Her eyes were already glowing… — Jeaniene Frost
You're never been wrong before, Spottedleaf. If StarClan has spoken, then it must be so. Fire will save our Clan. -Bluestar, Into the Wild — Erin Hunter
The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever. — Don DeLillo
A great dread fell on him, as if he was awaiting the pronouncement of some doom that he had long foreseen and vainly hoped might… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Words. I'm surrounding by thousands of words. Maybe millions...Deep within me, words pile up in huge drifts. Mountains of phrases and sentences and connected ideas.… — Sharon M. Draper
Life is a shitstorm, in which art is our only umbrella." (spoken by character in a novel by Mario Vargas Llosa) — Mario Vargas Llosa
'Tell Suzie she's a lucky cat.' Have sexier words ever been spoken? — Ally Carter
I'm Sorry are two of the most powerful words in our language, especially when they are not flipped blithely over the shoulder but spoken from… — Jerry Spinelli
I have not wanted syllables where actions have spoken so plainly. — Jane Austen
As a matter of fact she does not know to this day if those words were spoken, or if he only caught her, wound his… — Alice Munro
Yet, there was once a king worthy of that name. That king was Arthur. It is paramount disgrace of this evil generation that the name… — Stephen R. Lawhead
A queen keeps a court that is spoken about. A goddess keeps a court that is never forgotten. — Nalini Singh
I hate that word, CAN’T. I wish it had never been dreamed up, spoken, or defined. I wish the concept of CAN’T could be eradicated… — Tiffanie DeBartolo
Whether a thought is spoken or not it is a real thing and has powers of reality. — Frank Herbert
This absurd, godless world is, then, peopled with men who think clearly and have ceased to hope. And I have not yet spoken of the… — Albert Camus
We are a culture that relies on technology over community, a society in which spoken and written words are cheap, easy to come by, and… — Francis Chan
The Summer had died peacefully in its sleep, and Autumn, as soft-spoken executrix, was locking life up safely until Spring came to claim it. — Kurt Vonnegut
Very often in everyday life one sees that by losing one's temper with someone who has already lost his, one does not gain anything but… — Hazrat Inayat Khan

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