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80 Spoken Word quotes by 74 unique authors

The poem springs from the half spoken words of the patient.... When asked, how I have for so many years continued an equal interest in… — William Carlos Williams
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
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
All epoch-making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written, but by the spoken word. — Adolf Hitler
There is a lot of silence in me, and I feel that silence is often better than spoken words. — Randeep Hooda
Every spoken word arouses our self-will. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
All great movements are popular movements. They are the volcanic eruptions of human passions and emotions, stirred into activity by the ruthless Goddess of Distress… — Adolf Hitler
The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a… — Marshall McLuhan
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
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
...it is not the big events that hurt the most but rather the smallest questionable shift in tone at the end of a spoken word… — Steve Martin
If the lost word is lost, if the spent word is spent If the unheard, unspoken Word is unspoken, unheard; Still is the spoken word,… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
This won't look so good in my obituary," Schaffer said dolefully. There was a perceptible edge of strain under the lightly-spoken words."Gave his life for… — Alistair Maclean
If he thinks he would harm Mirabelle, he would back away. But he does not yet understand when and how people are hurt. He doesn't… — Steve Martin
The spoken word is nothing. It hardly lives longer than an insect! Only the written word is eternal. - Balbulus — Cornelia Funke
Oh, he was just angry, we tell ourselves when someone blurts out something he later apologizes for. But a word, once spoken, lingers forever; to… — Margaret George
He bent to put his cheek against hers. His breath against her ear made her shudder with each deliberately spoken word. "I have wanted to… — Cassandra Clare
Our view of man will remain superficial so long as we fail to go back to that origin [of silence], so long as we fail… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty
The written word endures, the spoken word disappears — Neil Postman
Our priorities are most visible in how we use our time. Someone has said, “Three things never come back—the spent arrow, the spoken word, and… — Dallin H. Oaks
The fact that we do not speak it but sing it only expresses the fact that our spoken words are inadequate to express what we… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Four things do not come back: the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity. — Ted Chiang
I have spoken words of hope. But only of hope. Hope is not victory. — J.R.R. Tolkien
The way we tell our stories on stage is that we use spoken word to convey action, and in movies, we use visual images to… — Tracy Letts
It is a coincidence that Mathangi is the Goddess of Music and the spoken word, which can be rap. — M.I.A.

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