Utterance Quotes
128 quotes by 109 authors
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This, I believe, is the appropriate image of human intercourse -- appropriate because it recognizes the qualities, the diversities, and the proper relationships of human…
— Michael Joseph Oakeshott
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They ended every speech with the word hiro, which means: like I said. Thus each man took responsibility for intruding into the inarticulate murmur of…
— Leonard Cohen
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THE thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge. You, who so well…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech, To stir men’s blood: I only speak right…
— William Shakespeare
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And when he had put his hand on mine with a cheerful look, wherefrom I took courage, he brought me within to the secret things.…
— Dante Alighieri
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The author who benefits you most is not the one who tells you something you did not know before, but the one who gives expression…
— Oswald Chambers
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[Adam picks up the camera] "I have to get a shot of this." The reaction in the room was swift, and unanimous: every single person…
— Sarah Dessen
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There are some situations which men understand by instinct, by which reason is powerless to explain; in such cases the greatest poet is he who…
— Alexandre Dumas
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The utterance of God is a lamp, whose light is these words: Ye are the fruits of one tree, and the leaves of one branch.…
— Bahá'u'lláh
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Doras II was a somewhat absentminded king, It is said, when Death came to summon him, Doras granted Death the usual formal audience and then…
— Diana Wynne Jones
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Utterance" Sitting over words Very late I have heard a kind of whispered sighing Not far Like a night wind in pines or like the…
— W S Merwin
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There is no way to use non-Christian language and logic to arrive at Christian utterances, conclusions, and behavior.
— Greg L. Bahnsen
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The real searcher after truth will not receive the old because it is old, or reject the new because it is new. He will not…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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No public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence.
— Lord Acton
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The wrong Democratic reaction to a stupid Republican utterance is to play hurt.
— Hooman Majd
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The art of utterance persuades initially by its music and its rhythm, before semiotic or personal characteristics come into play.
— Helen Vendler
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In poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance.
— Seamus Heaney
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The gay bunting erects his white crest, and gives utterance to the joy he feels in the presence of his brooding mate; the willow grouse…
— John James Audubon
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A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new; when an age ends; and when…
— Jawaharlal Nehru
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The continued utterance of a lie does not make it true, but it does convince many that it is, particularly if you can squelch most…
— Shapley R Hunter
Who Wrote These Utterance Quotes
109 authors contributed a total of 128 Utterance Quotes, led by these top contributors: