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1040 Spoken quotes by 791 unique authors

Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot". ~Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1958, spoken by the character Holly Golightly — Truman Capote
There are three deaths. The first is when the body ceases to function. The second is when the body is consigned to the grave. The… — David Eagleman
Sometimes we don't need words. Rather, it's words that need us. If we were no longer here, words would lose their whole function. They would… — Haruki Murakami
Mr. Montag, you are looking at a coward. I saw the way things were going a long time back. I said nothing. I am one… — Ray Bradbury
A story lives transformed by a gesture not made or a word not spoken — Ian Mcewan
This parting cannot be for long; for those who love as we do cannot be parted. We shall always be united in thought, and thought… — Barbara Taylor Bradford
Night is purer than day; it is better for thinking and loving and dreaming. At night everything is more intense, more true. The echo of… — Elie Wiesel
It must always be considered as though spoken by a character in a novel — Roland Barthes
She was not too young to be wise, but she was too young to know that wisdom shouldn't be spoken aloud when you are happy. — Graham Greene
It is a world of impulse. It is a world of sincerity. It is a world in which every word spoken speaks just to that… — Alan Lightman
He had not breathed a word of love, or dropped one hint of tenderness or affection, and yet I had been supremely happy. To be… — Anne Bronte
There’s a part of me which has always wanted to hear a man say, "Let me take care of you forever," and I have never… — Elizabeth Gilbert
Failure, failure is so important, it doesn’t get spoken about enough, we speak about success all the time. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I suppose all this sounds very crazy — all these terrible emotions always do sound foolish when we put them into our inadequate words. They… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
You have overburdened your argument with ostentatious erudition." Spoken by Abigail Adams — David McCullough
We speak now or I do, and others do. You've never spoken before. You will. You'll be able to say how the city is a… — China Mieville
The question is simply,'Who is your master?'Once that's settled, you ask whether any word have been spoken. If it has, you have your orders. — Elisabeth Elliot
In a family, what isn't spoken is what you listen for. But the noise of a family is to drown it out. — Joyce Carol Oates
I suppose you set up reading the Good Book all night-spoken by Woodrow Call — Larry McMurtry
You know Deets is like me - he's not one to quit on a garment just because it's got a little age - spoken by… — Larry McMurtry
If we wish to know about a man, we ask 'what is his story--his real, inmost story?'--for each of us is a biography, a story.… — Oliver Sacks
Kaia tossed Strider a shut-your-mouth frown before bouncing in her seat. "Do I get to help? Can I? You may not know this, but I'm… — Gena Showalter
When a person should be spoken with, and you don't speak with them, you lose them. When a person shouldn't be spoken with and you… — Confucius
...the problem with words is that once spoken, they cannot find their way back to the speaker alone. — Arturo PÃ©rez-Reverte
There's not even real *popularity* at my school." "That," Coli said emphatically, "is a sentence that has only ever been spoken by popular people. — John Green

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